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| L.S. ADAMS | (1960) | Physics Lab Technician | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gerry AINSWORTH | ? -1985 | "I am an electron boys", "Humphey Cushion" aka "Asbestos Dust"; | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robbie ALLEN | (1967)-1968 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ANDERSON | ? | ... the "IRA" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miss ARMITAGE | Secretary | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| P.F. ASHWORTH | 1959- ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| D.R. ATKIN | ? -1970 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Chopper" AXON | 1956-1958 ? | Hopeless ... Geography ... class was a continuous riot, remembered best for the day young Cogley wrestled him off the stage in Room 36, and the day that someone set fire to the waste paper bin in front of his stationery cupboard causing severe scorching of it's door ... wet Echo .. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| J.D. "Bill" BAINES | 1957-1963 | Room 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miss E.L. BAKER | (1928)-1962 | Rm 19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Miss K. BAKER | (1960) | Headmaster's Secretary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| "Zoonie" BAPTISTE | ? | maths teacher also known as "chiphead"
| A.S.C. BARNARD
| (1934)
| Rm 32
| "Fruity" BARTLETT
| ?
|
Geography teacher, Form master 4X that is X as in XYZ
...
was famed in 1943/4 for drawing
to the classes attention , and to a pupil Don Brown in particular
that the
answer to a question on parts of a flower was Stamen, NOT CLITORIS
as
described at which point 20% of the class were helpless with
laughter and
the other 80% of had no idea what it meant.
| H. BARTLETT
| (1928)
| Rm 28 - Bicycles
| H.M. BARNARD
| ?
| Severe Latin teacher ... looked like Julius Caesar
| Billy BAXTER
| ?
| ... "creeping Jesus" .... maths ..
| H.A. BAXTER
| (1928)
| Rm 14, Badges & Ribbons
| R. "Bobby" BELL
| (1969)
| Room 2 - a youngish Londoner who supported
"West 'am United" .. played for the Liobians soccer team
and liked a pint or two
| D.G."Fanny" BENTLIFFE - "The Skull"
| ? -1965
| Rm 21, Latin ... everyone whispered loudly "what's for skull
dinner" as they passed him in the corridors ...
"Chalky" - straight out of Giles ! Retired 1966
| Danny BERRIGAN
| ?
| French and Spanish - self-indulgent and ruthless, Guinness supping
and plasto-hootered, newt torturing petamaine.
| Fred BILSON
| 1957-1962
| Rm 11, Latin and History - "Vote for Fred from Birken'ead" ..
liberal politician
failed .. enthusiastic, effective and good fun teacher .. his classes
were always full of life and noisy ... but he could TEACH ...I liked him very much,
but he probably thought I was a right wally. Junior Debating Society. Fred is an
old boy and a teacher and a great
contributor to this Forum, and is happy to hear from any of the boys
email .. fbilson ? lincoln.ac.uk
| Dr. H. BLACKLER
| ? -1945
|
| H.E. BLUNDELL
| 1958-1960
|
| Dennis "Danny" BOOTH
| ? -1972
| Vice Principal (1957)... hence "The Viper" ... inherited the job
when "Morecum" put his cue in the rack ... dead man's shoes
... remembered through the famous Speech Night when Councillor Thorne
got up and called him a hypocrite - it was the beginning of the
comprehensive schools controversy ... also the classic "Every
time I open my mouth, some fool speaks", still quoted today, in
bars all around the world ! Danny Booth was notoriously always pelted with snow
outside the upper yard loo when we had proper snow - and fog ... highly competent administrator, his detailed command of the Liverpool-Maghull bus timetable was masterly ... at heart a gentle and fundamentally optimistic man who derived genuine satifaction from seeing his boys 'doing well'
| Frank J. BOOTE
| 1952-1966
| Rm 33, "FJ" ... Lieutenant and ... sometime a ship foster parent ...
kept a small statue of Buddah in the cupboard by his door and when
dispensing his brand of corporal punishment, normally with a running
shoe across the arse, would issue the command: "Face the Buddah
and bend!". ... better remembered for the wonderful "No
hanky-panky with Frankie or he will spankee" ..... showed an
early disrespect for Morecum Schmidt ... Dave Headey recalls Frankie's
remowned irreverance " reading out a pompous missive from the
new-but-soon-to-depart Head and ending: "Signed
- Member of the Pharmaceutical Society" ... love it. The
running shoe (plimmy) that Frankie Boot used previously belonged to
George Harrison who presented it to him on leaving because Frankie had
used it across his arse so often. It was size 10 or 11 | J.H. "Biff" BOWEN
| ?
| Rm 44, The original model for "Major-Major" ... stamps, the Bicycle "Club", singing
and Switzerland were the only reasons for living - used his 'splodge'
patent method of hitting pupils on the backside with a 12 inch ruler -
passed away in 1966
| E. BOWKER
| (1952)
|
| "Ali Bongo" BOYLE
| ?
| Tuck Shop CEO and general cash scavenger .... he was good at this
.... but .... actually a frustrated mountaineer - got away with
reading bits out of Chris Bonnington (and others) mountaineering books
and passing them off as scripture
| BRADSHAW
| ? -1950
| Woodwork
| J.N. BRADLEY
| 1957-1966
| Rm 31, 9 ... Maths Scholarships/Exhibitions to Oxford alone one year (63 ? ) was a
state school record ... Jim Bradley - himself ex-Balliol - was largely credited
with this achievement.
| G.W. BRAWN
| 1963- ?
|
| Martin "Neddy" BRAYNE
| 1965-1969
| Highly repected geography teacher, famous for his hand-rolled ink
maps, lurks here and offers colourful chronicles ...sometime rugby ref
... 1965-1969 ... lives in Chinley, Derbyshire ... happy to receive
emails mabrayne ? supanet.com
| E.J. Brierley
| 1910-1932
| Rm 30, died 1952;
| Fred BRIERLEY
| 1951-1963
| Rm 30, .. many thought hime to be a "vicious" but effective maths teacher, could be quite boring, but
some lads thought he was a top teacher, and had a soft spot those
victimised by the Baz, like Billy Morton .. in charge of the School Fire Drill
... promoted to Head at the Holt Grammar, Childwall Valley
| M. BOURDON
|
| Lille
| G.L.R. BROWN
| (1928)
| Rm 32
| H. M. BROWN
| (1928)
| Rm 39
| S. V. BROWN
| (1928)Feb 1946 (Dec'd)
| Vice Principal
| Miss C. L. BRUNTON
| 1958-1962
| School Office Assistant Secretary
| S.V. BROWN
| (1928)
| .. vice principal and morning warmup man before sweeping entrance of
the gowned and mortar-capitalled Baz, stage right .. jeez, do you
remember that extravagant palaver and high drama ... more like the
f****ng Messiah arriving every morning ! In charge of cricket in 1928
| Mrs. Bryan
| ? -1944
|
| J.G. BUCKLEY
| 1952-
|
| J BULLEN
| .
| Science, ooked like Buddy Holly - before he died
| Bill BULLOCK
| ? -1985
| Bollocky Bill ... thinks he knows who supplied the colourful
material for this WWW Page | C.J. "Ponce" BYRNE
| 1961- ?
| Rm 16, Maths - so-named "Ponce" as a result of his rather sharp
suits and suede brothel-creepers, insisted on calling all his 'boys' by their Christian names, his great achievement in teaching
the wrong
syllabus for a whole year.
| E. J. BYRNE
|
| Maths teacher - went to States to work on the "§" symbol programme
| Kathy BYRNE
|
| Married Graham Singleton
| R.K. CAIN
| (1949)
| Rm 49
| J.T. CARROLL
| (1969)
|
| CATHERALL
| ? -1968
|
| C.S. CHAPMAN
| (1934)
|
| G. CHAPMAN
| 1946- ?
|
| Barbara (Drozd) CHARLES
| 1975-1983
| ... remembered for the time the boys invested in watching Babs' arse
grind and wiggle, as she wrote on the board - evidently a daily event
that was consumed in silence and physical, pubescent discomfort - she
had quite a temper and onced dragged Phill Melia off his seat by the
hair and pinned him to the ground by standing on his head - probably
deservedly - replaced Geoff Simmonds
| J.R. CLAMO
| (1969)
|
| Peter N. "Gunter" CLARK
| (1969)-1985
| German - aka "fat Hans" - used a ruler when writing, aka "Paul Newman"
| R.A. CLARK
| 1953- ?
| Phys ed instructor;
| W.R.. CLARK
| 1961-1966
| Rm 2,
| P.N. CLARKE
| ? -1968
| Rm 34
| COHEN
| ?
|
| Cyril CONWAY
| (1960)-1962
| Chem. Lab Technician
| E.S. Conway | English teacher 1942. | Form master 3B 1942/3
| H. B. COOKE
| ? -1945
|
| Richard John COOKE
| 1974-1985
| ... email AndrewLouiseToby ? eggconnect.net ... geography, history and
outdoor pursuits ... ran his own team and invented the Football News a
rival to the Times, Guardian .. frequenter of the Cracke, Glad Ray and
Nigerian social club. aka "Borneo Bill" because of his frequent dronings on his time in the Marines, risked the lives of all on Scafell, Helvellyn
etc. Belayed Steve Moore (head boy) up Godhaborg (Iceland ice cap)
with a bootlace - never slow to tell a wanker of his true colours ...
bottle of rum in his cupboard and a Vauxhall Viva gear box on the desk
platform
| L.D. COOPER
| (1965)
| Chemistry Lab technician
| G.A. COWLEY
| 1960-1960
|
| J. "Gestapo" CRESSWELL
| ?
| ... was also known as "hammy hampster" ... perhaps one of the least popular fascist bastards (according to at least one ex head-boy) the school has ever witnessed
| Mrs. M.G. CRANE
| 1944- ?
|
| CRETNEY
| ? -1948
|
| Bill CRETNEY
| ?
| Cretinous tail-docked Mad ManxMan - later knighted as Sir Godfrey in
a Staffordshire comprehensive
| A. CROSS
| 1963-1964
| .
| S. CROUCH
| ? -1968
| The Yellow Waistcoat
| Tom CUMMINGS
| 1965-1974/5
|
Very jolly, always with a smile on his face and a cigarrete
in his hand and usually smelt of the odd pint or three.
Produced lots of
school plays including "Yeoman of the guard" in
which he starred with
"Jolly" Rogers and "Billy Budd" ..
took the pm A level Latin lessons in the
War Room of "Ye Cracke". was in our production of The Yeomen of the Guard, as the hero (Colonel Fairfax) but he didn't produce it: that was H B Jones. (Tim Riley writes "I am quite sure of this as I played the heroine and had to wear Mrs Jones's wedding veil, kindly lent for the occasion.");
May have passed on about 1980
| I. E. CURTIS
| 1947- ?
|
| Humphrey CUSHION
| ?
| Physics ... classical gas ... failed
| David B. DAVIES
| 1963-1967
| Music master in the early sixties - Welsh, known as "Di"
or "Diddy" progressed to the Liverpool Philharmonic as
deputy general manager
| R. K. Davies
| 1964-1964
| Rm 31,
| Robert William Mervyn DAVIES
| 1941-1952
|
| T.J. DAVIES
| 1948-1949, 1950- ?
|
| John H. DAY
| 1973-985
| (Max Wall) - did maths but actually had a degree in physics ...
sadly killed in a car accident near the Tunnel in late 1996
| DAWSON
| ? -1947
|
| Lester DAWSON
| ?
| ... keen sponsor of "Dirty" Dover Wilson ... the
original Colonel Flasheart from Black Adder
| W.R. DAY
| 1957- ?
| ...
| Miss K.M. DEAKIN
| (1930)
| Rm 27
| Roy "bombhead" DENMAN
| ?
| PE, minding the showers, bad guitar .... - his main claim to
fame in later years was that he'd work all year and save, buy lots
of bibles, take them all to Russia where the customs would
confiscate them, then come back and start all over again
| Maurice"Dixie" Devereux
| ? -1983
| Rm 37, rather grating voice and unsympathetic manner - History - - Mussolini ... followed Bert Parker as Head;
"keeping dixie" ... a boy would be strategically placed, head around the door to alert the
rest of the class so that the rest could watch a fight , or crowd around a
boy with a naughty mag and be be back in their seats before he/she entered.
| E.P. "Dippy" DEWHURST
| 1954-1959
| Viewed by some as a sort of gestapo-styled sadist in chief; his practice lessons for
cricketting at Southport were "intruiging" - had a
compulsive habit of beating the shit out of the kids, with his size 99 gym shoes
| Terry DICKINSON
| 1974 -1985
| Physics and Ms Molyneux ... some hilarious speculation and confusion as
to whether the appropriately named "Dicko" (whimsical
derivation unknown) was
autistic, just having a great time or permanently pissed ...
probably just "Tel" knew how to enjoy himself in
such elegant dives as the Cracke, O'Connor's the Gladray and the
Kebab House ... rumoured to be (and hated for)
getting into oooh-la-la's pants - he was possibly dreaming as much
as the boys ... "Go Dicko" !
| Brian H. DOBSON
| 1960-
| Rm 44, Motivating Latin teacher ... quite a feat ... "Dobbo"
- famed for his apoplectic rages, turning a non-Dulux shade of
purple - ran a Latin quiz in part of each lesson called "The
Ladder".
| H.R. "Ken" DODD
| 1957-1958
|
| G. DONALDSON
| (1969)
|
| DOSON
| ? -1970
| known as 'Jock' and 'Angus'. Dour teacher of English who could single-handedly remove all pleasure or enjoyment from any work of literature. He took over Tud Jones's room and infested the place during the later 1960s.
| R. J. DOUGAL
| (1967)
| Rm 35
| W.H. "Pop" DOUGHTY
| 1909-1950
| Vice Principal .. claimed to have taught Arthur Askey ... now we know !!!!
| P. DUFFY
| (1928)
| "Lates", Rm 15
| Alan "Dusty" DURBAND
| ? 1953-1962
| Rm 32, I remember him as one of the most popular masters in the school
.. a good bloke with the lads .. highly respected ... may have
became a millionaire as a result of 'translating' Shakespeare into
English ... singlehandedly raised money to support the old
Shakespeare theatre - still going strong ... remembered for giving
moving readings of "Mice and Men" while walking across a
floor laden with nitrogen tri-iodide explosive .. left on
promotion to Huyton Training College .. Willy Russell
unveiled a plaque in his memory in 1996 at the Everyman ... all-up
... a great fellow who was loved by the boys, his teacher peers
and the wider community for whom he did so much ... and sadly
missed ... lifetime friends with Jack Sweeney and James Eedle
| Frank EASTHAM
| 1970-1985
| gave the worse slipper of them all ...Latin .... plus English,
History and Games at the Inny from Jan. 1970 till closure in 1985.
ran football teams, a wargames club, played football and cricket
regularly for the staff teams, along with Wally Owen and others
... Frank can be contacted at email ... fje47 ? merseymail.com ...
sounds like a good bloke to me
| W.F. "Cliff" EDGE
| 1950-1964
| Rm 19, History, lovely man but may have found it difficult to control the wilder elements in
the U5 & L6th .. went I think to Edge Hill Training College ..
"Wiffy" ..
| B.H. EDWARDS
| 1958-1960
|
| Jack R. EDWARDS
| 1935-1961
| "the Baz" ... whimsically believed to be an
enthusiastic flagellate pedagogue ... seemed to live in his own
world and be totally detached from the soul and operations of the
school ... I dunno, he certainly
inspired fear in the majority, and was presumably one of the last
great icons of his marque ... appeared to be in a constant state of a repressed fuming temper, with baleful glare, flared nostrils and thin, tightly clamped lips
... lived, if that's living, into his 90's ...
| Rm 37, J. R. "Jake" EDWARDS
| 1952-1966
| Geography .. always enjoyed his lessons - terrific - I got an
'A' level - he was pretty straight, but a man remembered inter
alia for the Fund collections every Monday morning and his
repeated plea for "those less fortunate than ourselves"
- leavers' advice at the end of the year was "Never turn down
any opportunity - it won't come again" - a very highly
respected gentleman, always fair with the boys, and the greatest
geography teacher that ever swept a gown through the Institute; at the end of 65/66 Edwards left for a deputy-headship at Leyland
| "Taffy" ELLIS
| ?
| Minder of the Bangor boys during the WWWII
| G.D. ELLIS
| (1928)
| Absence Notes and Lockers and Medical Inspections, Rm 8
| S.J. ELLIOTT
| 1905-1941
| died 1955, Rm 37
| H. ENGLER
| 1952-1952
| Music died 1953;
| W.R.G. EUSTACE
| (1928)
| .
| Mr. EVANETTE
| ?
| Maths teacher
| Mrs. EVANS
| ? -1944
|
| Arthur EVANS
| 1954-1964
| Rm 34," Hitler Evans" ... Arthur Evans - Scoutmaster, 19th City, Liverpool Institute Scout
Group | Miss P. EVANS
| (1965)
| Assistant School Secretary
| R. N. (Noel) "Music" EVANS
| ? -1963
| - known as "Neddy" Evans. Musique a la Bela Lugosi,
swirling, caped, Peter Pan and hatchet-faced, superb choir trainer
and, under him, the school put on some really superb concerts
(Bach's B Minor Mass, for example} ... got a job at the
Philharmonic
| J. "Er Jeremy" J. EYRE
| (1969)
| Latin, Room 20. Once severely embarrassed by a count of the number of times he said 'er' during a lesson, with a round of
applause when he reached 100, and had a habit of following questions with 'Shove your hand up somebody if you know the
answer' - a hesitant cricket umpire - may have departed late 1960s for
St. Margaret's in Aigburth.
| B.A. EZRA
| (1969)
| He was in a beat group (The Checkmates) before he went into teaching
| Rev F.E. FINCH
| (1969)
|
| B.R.M. "BUMF" FOLLAND
| 1930-dec'd 1952
| Podgy pinkish scoutmaster and basket weaver, Rm 25
| N.N. "Nobby" FORBES
| 1946-1957
| Sour Kraut ... amply trousered and bicycle-clipped polyglot ... when on Upper Yard
duty with "the Boote", they
walked past the lavatories and saw "Nobby is a c**t" scrawled in chalk, upon the
wall. Nobby walked back into school and armed with a piece
of chalk, emerged to put an omission sign between the is and the
a and write "not" above
it .. a modest man was Nobby ... this story came from Frankie
himself.
| G. FORREST
| 1963-1966
|
| E.L. FRANK
| (1930)
| Rm 30a
| "Fiery" FREARSON
| ? -1945
| History `master 1942/45
| M.E. GALLAND
| (1930)
| Rm 45
| GAMMAGE
| ? -1967
|
| R.H. GAVIN
| 1960- ?
| Rm 23, Gavin, had a habit of hurling a board duster in the direction of anyone he saw misbehaving
in class, continually attempted to teach the rudiments of sex education - a noble
effort, thank you for coming
| J.P. GENESTE
| (1969)
|
| Signora Angela GIANOTA
| ? -1985
| now Angela Duffy ... a good egg ... to quote one of her pupils
"now here is something really special" ... I have now
met Angela Gianota - in June 1999 - had tea with Angela and Jack
Sweeney at her home in Meols ... she was the first teacher to
respond directly to this WWW Page, and I thank her for her good
humour and the spirit in which she has contributed ... thanks
Angela, I think you are terrific and no wonder that is what the
boys thought then (and still think) too ! I wish that I had had
the good fortune to come under your spell; angela ? ozymandias.demon.co.uk
has indicated that she is happy to receive a message from any of
her former pupils, and would be interested to see how they have
fared ... what a classic !
| Dennis.J. "Porky" GLEAVE
| 1967 -1985
| Chemistry ... Head of Science 71-85 ... something to do with
either bestiality and bacon, but a
good teacher evidently ... had a nice little room behind the chem
lab, especially useful to other teachers trying to dodge the draft ...
famous for grinding his broad Yorkshire accent into the impossible
''phenolphthalein, methahl methacrilert, manganese sulphert, and allotrorps of
sulphur" ... popular with students and fellow teachers ... went on to Paddington ..
oink-oink !
| Algy "Coalman" GOODALL
| ?
| Rm 20, frequent spanker of little boys' botties, across the arse with
der pumps for fun ... guardian of the Covered Yard "sag
off" exit route for those who didn't escape through the
kitchen
| A.G. GOODFELLOW
| 1959-1963
| Rm 29, Engineering & Transport Society
| J.B. GRACE
| ? -1970
|
Cricket 1st XI played for a team named "The Rabbits" out of
school - used to
coach and umpire
| D.C. GRAHAM
| 1947-1950
|
| E.J. GREEN
| 1952-1952
|
| Mrs. P J GRIMES
| 1944- ?
|
| F.W.H. GROOM
| (1928)
| Children's Cot and Florence Institute Fund, Vice Principal 1928, RM 9
| Mrs. L. GUILE
| (1964)
| Headmaster's Secretary
| D.M."Bughead" HAIG
| (1952)
| Latin - original accident-prone platform bungey diver and gown-tripper
| Ron HAILWOOD
| (1967)
| .. brother of Mike Hailwwwod, motot racing worl champion
| A.J. HALL
| (1960)
| Physics Lab Technician
| F.W. HALL
| (1928)
| Rm 34
| Iain "Rupert". HALL
| 1964-1971
| Physics, respected subscriber here .. enthusiastic
soccer coach
| Johnny HALTON
| ?
| ... apparently the original inoffensive assistant to anybody
....
| Isobel HARKNESS
| ?
| ... related directly to great goddess "Geographite"
.... she displayed a wonderful cuspate foreland ... the buns of
her arse were much more inspiring than the bun on her 'ead ! | W.J. "Bronco" HART
| (1928)-1962
| Rm 43 in 1930, later Rm 20, he was named in his later career after James Hart, the silent cowboy ....
rather than the toilet roll, otherwise we would have called him
"Izal" wouldn't we ... so, there's not
much to say about him | A. HEMSLEY
| (1969)
| "Hank the Gobshite", Rm 25, used to smack arses with a football boot (studs in and all), looked like Hank
Marvin ... BOOM-boom-boom-boom ...
BOOM-boom-boom-boom BOOM-boom-boom-boom ..... Apache !
| Herr K.L. HESS
| 1951- ?
|
| E.W. HICKS
| 1908-1938
| Died 1948, Careers Master, Rm 35
| Eric HIGGINS
| 1973-1985
| History, ornthology, turfology, lost property, gas pyrotechnics,
piles ... a sort of educational Arthur Daley - rumoured to have spent a total of 10
hours teaching history over a three year period .. but this could
be either wishful thinking or an over exaggeration ... rumour has
it that Eric the first class skiver and trickster thinks this site
is "scandalous" ... get a life Eric, just a bit of fun
... you should try and get out more ... this is what the lads
thought about the teachers ...
| B. Hillman
| 1943- ?
| .
| R. HIND
| (1965)
| Chemistry Lab Technician
| HOLLIS
| 1959-1964
| .
| Michael J HOLMES
| ? -1968
| Physics - lived in Kenyon Road - posters of Marx, Lenin and Guevara on the
walls, plus his wife Cindy whose microscopically-short skirts were topic of
teenage lust for a whole term ... hey, no offence ... just the way it was ..
| A. HOSKER
| 1942-1961
| Silvered ... apparently read salacious paperbacks during lessons
in a brown paper cover - generally accepted as a bloody awful
Maths teacher ("Five marks off for not understanding!")
but a pillar of the amateur Gilbert and Sullivan scene. He used to
give lunchtime recitals of G&S to the Music Club - mainly the
patter songs.
| H.M.P. HUDSON
| (1928)
| .
| R.W. HULLCOOP
| (1967)
| Rm 9, Espanol
Room 9 - had a booming voice and once had
a row with Danny Booth in front of all the class.
| R.S. HUNT
| 1961- ?
| Spanish, Room 29, next to the Art Room, a good teacher, who was mad on the
Benny Hill show. Worked hard and was very popular
with staff and
pupils alike. Could get very angry. though!
| Mary "Fanny" INKLEY
| 1943-1960
| Spanish Infanta - cosmetically over-committed ... paper gob
balls on her ceiling ... Madrid ... remembered for her
circumlocutions when "Bogs" Marsh asked whether the
Lovers of Teruel had a platonic relationship | P.J. ISAAC
| 1956-1959
| ... tight fisted Welsh sadist .. well, he had some really good
points too, like er ... um .. more information requested
(Ed.)
| D.J. JACK
| 1960-1965
| Rm 43
| J. Mike JACKSON
| 1960-1963
| Rm 9, "J.M." ? I liked him very much - he thought I was a
wally, which was true ... nevertheless, he was a damn good teacher
.. famous for turns of phrase like ... "this smacks of Balzac
or Bardot" ... a most memorable line ... top bloke ... wot
'appened to him ... I don't think anyone was more surprised than
he, apart from me, when I got an 'A' Level in French ... my French
sounded like a Taiwanese transistor radio guarantee, translated by
a bleedin' Patagonian idiot, and uttered by a retired, dyslexic,
one-armed Maori paper-hanger from Bradford with a speach impediment ...
| M.K. JACKSON
| (1969)
| Barcelona por favor
| J.M. JAUNA
| (1962)
|
| H.B. JONES
| 1965-1966
|
| E.R. JONES
| 1954-1958
| Er .... um ...er ... er ... er .... um ...er ...er .
| I. JONES
| (1969)
|
| R.T."Tud" (Tudor) JONES
| ? -1944, 1947-1966
| Rm 24, English Literature - luver of Keats ... actually a teacher who
could get the scouse kids to understand romantic poetry - got me
to read Confessions of an English Opium Eater in my spare
time - (you could get into the back of the organ via cupboard in
his classroom for a quick drag) a likeable and energetic enthusiast ... passed away
1967
| W.H. (Bill) "Bilge" JONES
| ? -1965
| The Physics Rm, "The Bilge" ...
this affectionate title warmly encapsulates his persona ...
Abraham Goldberg who remembers him as perhaps the only master who
was patient and perceptive enough to see his latent talents,
recalls this doozie attributed to The Bilge - "Doctors;
I'd rather die without their help"
| B. JUXON
| 1960-1963
| Rm 22
| R.K. KAIN
| 1950- ?
|
| M.P. KAY
| 1963- ?
|
| T.J. KEANE
| 1959-1960
|
| L.M. KEATING
| (1967)
|
English, in Room 22, replaced "Taffy "Williams - always a tremendous row during lessons - Danny Booth once hit by
a flying book as he entered one day.
| Arthur V.G. KILLINGLEY
| 1927-1958
| Rm 31 in 1930, Spanish from the Bogs ... "no comprendo",
twisted-mouthed and game-legged from Ireland .. passed the used by
date by the time I knew him ... couldn't hear or understand half
of what the old boy was saying
| M.J. KINGMAN
| ? -1968
|
Room 18 - A bright chap, not strict, but could
control the class well, only lasted about 3 years - looked
like Bernard Cribbins - good fast bowler
| M.F. LE GROS
| 1961- ?
| Lille
| Rod G. LEA
| ? -1985
| Gym Teacher ... very nice man but couldn't organise his way out of a paper bag ... famous for the line in the staffroom
when his second in command (a glum man from Newcastle called
Nigel) was leaving : "Only at the Inny could you get away
with having the gym run by two fellows called "Rodney and
Nigel".
| G. "Jimmy" C. LEDGERD
| circa 1925-1952
| Rm 30, Straight out of "The Thirty Nine Steps" .... ran the
OTC, in charge of the bookshop in 1928
| J. C. LEDGERD
| circa 1965
| taught German. Slightly sadistic tendencies, favourite means of punishment being to stand two pupils
either side of him and simultaneously punch both in the upper arm, boasting
"They don't call me Two-Fisted Ledgerd for nothing!'
| Mrs M.A. LEEK | Geography teacher 1942. | Form Mistress of 3E 1942/3 | LEWIN
| ? -1950
|
| N. LLOYD
| 1952- ?
| Workshop ... an innovator
.. woodwork and engineering drawing - always had time for his
pupils - maker of makeshift cricket bats.
| R.D. LLOYD
| (1969)
|
| J. D. LONG
| 1958-1961
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