Ex brincliffe grammar school?

[fatrajah]

13 hours ago, Michael Gott said:

Old pupils brincliffe grammar

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[grannypat]

On 29/01/2020 at 19:44, fatrajah said:

I remember them both. Mr Silcock often had a bevy of girls walking up Osborne Road with him in the morning. I seem to remember that this caused some envy/disparagement amongst we lads. He left in the summer of 1961 to be replaced by Miss Carr the following term. I lived fairly close to Miss Mitten & would often travel on the same bus to the bottom of Sheldon Road then walk up to school. She wrote some nice things about my artwork in the school reports. I don't think she stayed at Brincliffe for more than about a year.

Oh really???? I seemed a lot longer than that. Mr Silcock was lovely but he was only little wasn't he? The teacher who remains in my memory was 'Hiram Holliday'. I can't remember his real name and I don't know about the other classes but our class made his life a misery. I've felt bad about that over the years. I'll bet he was a nice chap really just not ideal teacher temperament. 

 

[fatrajah]

Hello, Grannypat

Yes, Mr Silcock was on the short side. We nicknamed him 'Basil' from B.A. Silcock. I was told that he ended up as the Principal of some college in Lancashire.  At least I was told that by Mr Chapman  who was a part-time maths teacher 1959/60 whom I met in the late 1990s while doing some conservation work in Ecclesall Woods. Do you remember him?  

'Hiram Holliday's real name was Brian Whittaker. He started at Brincliffe in September 1961 having previously worked in South Africa. He wasn't really cut out to be a teacher , was he? Sadly he died of a brain tumour in about June 1963.  It was very sad the way he was treated by some pupils. In the late 1960s while working for GPO Telephones, I met his brother, Graham. He put Mr Whittaker's illness down to excessive studying. 

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I don't know what all the crossing out is for.

[FORE]

2 hours ago, fatrajah said:

Hello, Grannypat

Yes, Mr Silcock was on the short side. We nicknamed him 'Basil' from B.A. Silcock. I was told that he ended up as the Principal of some college in Lancashire.  At least I was told that by Mr Chapman  who was a part-time maths teacher 1959/60 whom I met in the late 1990s while doing some conservation work in Ecclesall Woods. Do you remember him?  

'Hiram Holliday's real name was Brian Whittaker. He started at Brincliffe in September 1961 having previously worked in South Africa. He wasn't really cut out to be a teacher , was he? Sadly he died of a brain tumour in about June 1963.  It was very sad the way he was treated by some pupils. In the late 1960s while working for GPO Telephones, I met his brother, Graham. He put Mr Whittaker's illness down to excessive studying. 

You've accidently pressed the 'S' button with the line through. Like this.

Where was Brincliffe grammar? Never heard of it - sorry (High Storrs 1963-70)

[fatrajah]

Brincliffe Grammar was on Union Road, Nether Edge. Nether Edge Grammar occupied the building until 1958 when the pupils & most of the teaching staff moved to the newly-opened Abbeydale Boys Grammar on Hastings Road Millhouses.

I think Brincliffe was set up as an overspill school to cope with the number of post-war baby boomers. The school was only in existence for 7 years & closed in 1965.  The Education Department used the building for various purposes for many years thereafter.

On games days we used pass your old school on our way to the playing fields behind the Maud Maxfield School for the Deaf . That was at Bents Green.

The school building still exists but is much altered & extended having been converted into apartments about 20 years ago.

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[grannypat]

12 hours ago, FORE said:

You've accidently pressed the 'S' button with the line through. Like this.

Where was Brincliffe grammar? Never heard of it - sorry (High Storrs 1963-70)

If you stand at the main gates of the drive up to the front of the old Nether Edge Hospital buildings our school was immediately across the road. I think it's offices now. We also had some of the buildings which looked as though they were a part of the hospital  as they were on the same side of the road as the hospital.  From the main gates right down as far as the junction.

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[fatrajah]

The building is now known as Chestnut Court & consists of quite a few apartments. I had a look around about 20 years while the building was being converted under the pretext of being interested in buying one. The classroom where I spent year 2B had not been started so it was just a big empty room. Sadly my visit did not evoke any memories & I felt no connection with the place even though I recognised many parts of the building. They do say you should never go back. Don't get me wrong; I have mostly fond memories of the school & enjoy reminiscing on threads like these.

[DUFFEMS]

11 hours ago, fatrajah said:

Brincliffe Grammar was on Union Road, Nether Edge. Nether Edge Grammar occupied the building until 1958 when the pupils & most of the teaching staff moved to the newly-opened Abbeydale Boys Grammar on Hastings Road Millhouses.

I think Brincliffe was set up as an overspill school to cope with the number of post-war baby boomers. The school was only in existence for 7 years & closed in 1965.  The Education Department used the building for various purposes for many years thereafter.

On games days we used pass your old school on our way to the playing fields behind the Maud Maxfield School for the Deaf . That was at Bents Green.

The school building still exists but is much altered & extended having been converted into apartments about 20 years ago.

Absolutely spot on fatrajah. I agree it was to take up the number of post-war children. I went there as  13+ student from 1962 to the school closing in 1965. Who on earth thought that kids who'd failed the 11+ could catch up  2 years of education at Grammar School level and keep up with  the syllabus in order to be successful in GCE O'Levels ?

I remember being in my first ever French lesson  with all the other kids chanting verbs along with Miss. Bingham and being totally out of my depth. We came from Secondary Modern Schools where  French wasn't taught, the only language we were taught was English.

It was an excellent school but, I always felt that we were sort of the dregs of Grammar School students, the ones who "nearly made it".

Regards,

Duffems

 

[fatrajah]

On 15/06/2020 at 20:57, DUFFEMS said:

Absolutely spot on fatrajah. I agree it was to take up the number of post-war children. I went there as  13+ student from 1962 to the school closing in 1965. Who on earth thought that kids who'd failed the 11+ could catch up  2 years of education at Grammar School level and keep up with  the syllabus in order to be successful in GCE O'Levels ?

I remember being in my first ever French lesson  with all the other kids chanting verbs along with Miss. Bingham and being totally out of my depth. We came from Secondary Modern Schools where  French wasn't taught, the only language we were taught was English.

It was an excellent school but, I always felt that we were sort of the dregs of Grammar School students, the ones who "nearly made it".

Regards,

Duffems

 

Sometime between taking the 11+ & receiving the results, we received a list of grammar schools arranged in a sort of pecking order. Top was King Ted's & Girls High School, second was High Storrs, somewhere in the middle was City Grammar, near the bottom but not at the bottom was Brincliffe.

I don't know how you ere expected to make up 2 years of learning French. I enjoyed French & German lessons; I thought they weren't that important but they came as a bit  of light relief to offset the horrors of Mrs Potter's lessons (you know what I mean).

Regards

fatrajah

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