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Memories of The City School - Stradbroke Road


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I can honestly say those were great days with some VERY understanding teachers......I sometimes wonder how they coped...(probably with industrial quantities of alcohol, ciggies and temazepan)

 

I can still remember loads of their names...

 

Mr Swift (Swifty)

Mr & Mrs Brown

Mr Gelder & Mr Butler

Neal Lovell

Miss Shimmin

Miss Townsend

St John & Tingle

Kita & Paulson

Sando

Debes

Bob Parsonage (RIP)

Ann Rigby (RIP)

 

I also took a walk down the Shirebrook Valley today past where I used to walk to school and where I spent an awful lot of my youth......Can't believe how much it has all changed....then again....it is about 25 years since I last went there !!!

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Mr Tingle was a nice fella, at break times if he was skint he would go round the smokers corner and "confiscate " someone`s fags. He took us for football one day and ended up on crutches for months, don`t mess with the ex Woodthorpe boys:D

 

i remember the tackle that caused that injury ,he had picked on one of our mates and when he got the ball got tackled from both sides i think it was alan martin we got done but it was worth it ,actually he was a top bloke and became good mates . Does anyone remember Mr Burgin he was a sports teacher he came with us from woodthorpe another good bloke no airs and graces.

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HI Alylou, Lewis Cypher,

 

I think I was there a year or two ahead of you, I left in 1980, I think Saskia was in my little brother's class, Jarvis was in the year below me I think. We were all in one room for 6 form.

 

I remember a lot of teachers people have mentioned. Pity if Swifty has lost the plot, he was probably the best teacher when I was there. I remember Mr Hugman, we were pretty awful to him but he was really kind. He left when I was there. There was another RE teacher Mr Kendellen, he was a councillor or something as I remember.

 

StJohn/ Sinjen "over to the spowts ow, sit against the wow"

 

Tingle - he was a scary bloke, but he and Mr Bant (metalwork) took a few of us sailing a few times on one of the dams. That was good but i was always dead scared of drowning.

 

Paulson, he was the Chemistry chap with the hair, Biffo we used to call him. There was a technician called Graham around as well. And Physics was taught by Mr Ward - did he really get married? We watched the cricket when we were revising.

 

Another science teacher was mr Kita, there was a story that both he and

Mr Fletcher (hisotry) were in the Vietnam war. And Mr Brown was supposed to have got his legs shot up in a Spitfire. i don't remember a Mrs Brown.

 

Mr Parsonage was a new arrival when i was there, he took us for one year of german. There was another german/ french teacher mr Hall, we called him Ajud.

 

In art we had miss robinson I think, who was lovely, there was also miss kitson and Mr Thornton who became head of Sixth form. He let a couple of us do photography, Mark White was in that group.

 

Anybody remember Shep / Rob / Wato / Mark and Andy (twins) Pete / Mark. Gail / Zoe / Bev / Marie / Diane / Hayley. Shep was an actor, did he ever make it big time?

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SJC 204

 

sounds like you were in the year above me. i left 6th form in 81.

Shep did make it in acting - became a Teacher - now a Head in Newcastle.

Afew of us met up in Sheffield in the last couple of years - Shep, his older bros Ian, Pete Beighton. John Wood, Dave and Andy Burkinshaw, Steve Middleton and myself - Nigel Holmes. Did all the old haunts around west street. Should be doing it again this year

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