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PHILBY · GRAMMAR SCHOOL

I REMEMBER BEING AT THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN MY FIRST YEAR AND THESE TWO GIRLS USED TO SPOT ME, SCREAM AND START CHASING ME

THEY WERE IN SIXTH FORM AND USED TO SCARE THE S@@T OUT OF ME – THEY’D BE 60 BY NOW – WHY ARE THERE NO GRAMMAR SCHOOL PICS ON THE SITE?
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Carolyn

The site relies on the contributions of guests and members who send in photos for inclusion. Presumabley very few grammar school pupils do.

Maybe if you post a request for images of the grammar school in the "Images wanted section" somebody may respond.

martyn142 · Re: GRAMMAR SCHOOL

Carolyn

When they scream and run away from you is the time to worry Laughing

Puberty can be such a difficult transiton

Dirty Harry

Anyone refresh my memory regarding the Masters names? I remember Ernie Lewis Keith Steiner Dr Columbo "Titch" a Mistress we called Drack the rest elude me My defense is it was 39 years ago

Manawydan

Rocke

'Johnny' Warrender was Physics.
I think I'm right in saying his sister was Ruth Madoc of Hi De Hi fame.
( She wa married to Phillip Madoc, of Uncas fame, Last of The Mohicans, and before Hi-De-Hi ).

Mr Hatton, Chemistry ( and the long-suffering Mrs. Snelgrove, Lab Asst ).
Mr Gary Snelgrove ( husband of Mrs ) - Art, and my 2T tutor.

Mr. Long, Geography.

Mr Hughes, French.

Latterly Miss Powis ( former pupil ) - some language or other.

Who can forget Albert 'Jif' Lovesay, English ????????!!!!!!!!!

There was a lady Biol teacher, can't remember her name, sorry.
'Beaky' Thomas, Biol & PE. When she liked you she called you by your Christian name, otherwise it was 'Rocke'.

Grumpy

Mrs. Lewis Biology

Grumpy

Micky Moore Metalwork

Rocke

Hi Grumpy.

Yes, it was Mrs Lewis ! - thanks.

We called Mr Moore 'Dud', since the technology for Metal Mickey wasn't around then.
I recall him telling a joke in one of the first lessons we had with him.
Explaining the range of files he came out with:

"A man goes into the ironmongers and says he wants the roughest cut file they have. The ironmonger says 'how about this bas***d ?'. 'No', says the man, 'I'll have that *****r please'.
Not bad in Form 2 of a grammar school.

geraldjames

Hello Rocke
Teachers when they could be teachers,pity we couldn't go back a while, i was no angel but still had respect .

martyn142

Many of those teachers were well known to me as they went on to teach at my former schools, Roseheyworth and Nantyglo Comprehensives.

The teachers I think taught me the most were Ma James (English) at Roseheyworth and Lynn Downey (English) at Nantyglo. The latter was by far the best teacher I ever had. We were a mixed bunch, to say the least, but she managed to instill an enthusiasm for the subject amongst even the roughest and toughest.

alewales

Hiya Martyn.
I was, I think, a year or two below you in Roseheyworth?
I have mixed memories of the school.
The bad ones include witnessing a teacher caning a boy across the face for standing in the wrong place, another hitting a pupil across the back of the head causing his face to hit the bench, which in turn caused his lower teeth to appear, through the skin, below his bottom lip ... how we laughed!
On the good side!
A science experiment that went wonderfully wrong! The lab filled with smoke, choking students made their escape through the windows and gathered in the yard. Looking back we saw the teacher throwing all valuable equipment out of said windows, which prompted thirty giggling pupils to break into an impromtu rendition of the Paper Lace song, Billy Don't Be A Hero.
Ah, happy days!

Rocke

Good old Bert Lloyd came a cropper in one lesson.

Someone had left the teachers bench in the Chem Lab a right mess.
Bert started the lesson and then interjected 'there's some messy people around who don't clean up after them' as he swept the dross into the sink.

Sink starts fizzing, sparking and finally popping like a mini firework show, leaving Bert swinging his hands about to diffuse the smoke and telling everyone to get out leave in an orderly manner.

Seems the dross was actually sodium or potassium shavings.

martyn142

Hi alewales.

If I am right in who you are, you were a year below me. I remember getting caned at Roseheyworth by Jack Hughes, who was Mr Roderick's 'Enforcer' Laughing

You didn't have to do much to warrant a caning from Jack! I got to know him years later though and he was a really nice chap. To be honest having to deal with us lot would push anyone over the edge Laughing

ps I'm not suggesting it was Jack who caned someone across the face.

maudie

Going back a few more years, I remember Miss James english (jammy).
Miss Evans (fanny french).Mr jakeman art ( jakey) Mr Abrahams - physics ,I think but no nickname as I recall.The geography teacher whose name escapes me but he always carried a half metre rule. Taj, the maths teacher (get a wubber and wub it out ). Robert Taylor, the headmaster, he was too august and remote to have a nickname. Nenny Williams, maths. Can anyone remember the rest of them ?circa 1951 to 1955.

dragongirl · teachers

hi Maudie
Towser - English lanuage cant remember her real name
Mr Osbourne Geography
Mr Jones Maths who`se initials spelt his nickname TAJ
Mr Lloyd chemistry- David Lloyd`s Dad
French master ,Fritz who had one eye but his aim with a blackboard
rubber was spot on !!! His wife wrote lots of plays for television Elaine
somehing -his name was Morgan they livedin the Rhonnda.
physics teacher whose name escapes me but his son was a war hero- he had the uncanny knack of appearing behind you when you were kicking up leaves or pulling branches of tree -the times he`d make you apologise to the tree (Please Mrs tree etc etc)!!!!! The good old days!!
Tried to remember the Biology Mistress, Music Mistress sports mistress
Latin Master who always wore his gown and looked like a bird of prey!!

maudie

Hi dragongirl.
just remembered, PE teacher was mrs Mounter I think. her husband played rugby and taught at Bryn Gwyn, will fill in a few more details but right now we are on the way to Le mans to our daughter having just sold the house in France - 1 week from estate agents visit to sale ! we're shell shocked.

PHILBY

mrs mounter was my latin teacher

john gibbs

Mr Abraham was nicknamed zeke, there was rocky morris for physics (he's on friends btw, if he's still alive) Ringo Rees, a phsycopath(?) Miss williams RE, Puss Handy, woodwork, many others I can still see in my mind's eye but can't put a name to. I was there from 54 to 60. I'm pretty sure Miss James took me for biology and Fanny Evans for geography.
The headmaster was termed Bob, I remember in the mid sixties I was in the lounge of the Bush when he walked over to me and shook my hand and spoke to me like a long lost friend; I say remembered because he caned me several times and suspended my brother and I from school for drinking at a Christmas party.

pent boy · teachers

the physics teacher was w,a,beddoes or WAB and he was the one who couldnt pronounce his Rs.TAJ the maths teacher was the one who taught us world war 2 history for half of each lesson,specialising in far eastern combat, burma,and prisoners of war,of which I believe he was one.biology was miss gabby hayes,and history was percy,whos surname evades me.

pent boy · teachers

having just mentioned mr beddoes,a memory has just come back to me from my first term in the grammar.we were changing rooms for a different lesson ,a door opened by me and a wastepaper bin, which had been balanced on the top of the ajar door,fell on to WABs head as he pushed it forward.it caused quite a nasty cut.I wont let on who the guilty party was as I am sure that he or she was never caught,but I will say that I believe to this day that NOBBY DONE IT. Laughing

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