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my mum went to holy family i think she left in 1960...i went to moorhead

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is that it nobody from holy family left out there.:(

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I went to Holy Family, I was there when it changed to Mount Carmel and the uniform went from being a reasonably cool gray and black affair to the poo brown one.

I remember virtually all the teachers mentioned on the thread but my form teacher was Miss Wojtavic (or however the hell you spell it). I seem to remember she had very bad breath.

I also have terrible memories of Mr Mulderrig. He was a swine but I saw him in Accrington town centre just a couple of days ago and he looked nothing like as terrifying. Time does funny things. Did you know he shaved his head for the part of the King in The King and I at Holy Family and it never grew back. That's why he was bald. GIT!

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I saw Miss Wojaanowski in a film recently, she played 3rd Troll from the left in Lord Of the Rings.

I had Mrs "sharknose" Bradshaw for English though, not her. Anyone remember Mr Cunningham who taught physics - he would practice Karate in the gym at lunch times and scare all the pupils sh*tless.

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Wow what a gr8 forum left accy in 85 nice seeing some familiar names after such a long time.

Does any one remember the Fowlers, Alan Fowler and his wife both taught RE and English i think.

Is Miss Nelson still a Miss. The Ryders esp Kev was a top man.

Ne 1 remember Mr Pickering, woodwork teacher i think

:)

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mr pickering was metalwork.

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Saw your Mr Bentley at cricket last week;he is hale and hearty despite being a Church fan! Also Miss Almond (Christine) sadly died about 15 years ago after a bravely fought battle with cancer;she was a friend to many and a wonderful woman.

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I was at holy family from 77-82 and remember all of the above teachers.
Some more that I remember are
Mr Swarbrick- English lit, Mr & Mrs Ryder, he taught History, Mr Robinson- English.
I remember Mr Almond caning the whole class for talking outside in the hallway, also you were not allowed to pick up a pen whilst he was talking as well as sit with your hands on your head.

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I remember the ROSLA block it was built for the 5th years. Rising Of School Leaving Age. I think 4th and 5th years were allowed to eat lunch there.
What was the name of the female teacher who was the Hyndburn mayor approx 1977, we had a school trip to the town hall and had to all play a part in a mock town hall meeting. Going to Malham as part of Geography was also a school trip I remember.

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Think the female teacher's name was Miss (Winnie) Hogan. I really liked and respected that teacher when i was there.

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Spoke to my sister today and the teacher that I was thinking of was Miss Hall. Anyone remember her, she was a nice lady. I think she was responsible for the girls, she was who you had to go to if you had a problem.

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Nice one Magily I never knew what ROSLA stood for, I can just about remember I think she was called Jessie Hall.

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You are right Bagpuss it was Jessie Hall,at some point when I was there 77-82 she was the mayor of Hyndburn I seem to recall.

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Sad to read in todays Observer that Mr Pickering, my old metalwork teacher, has passed away.

He was a nice bloke, although he did cane me for breaking a file (rasp?), so I'd like to register my condolences to his family

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Just read that myself, it has to be said he was not one of my favourite teachers so I chose woodwork but sad for his family that he died age 63 RIP.

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I was there 67 - 71 remember all of those teachers very well. The one that sticks in my mind was Mrs Ainsworth the Cookery teacher. She once whacked the back of my hand with a big bunch of keys because I was wicked enough to make the slit in my pie with a knife and not scissors!!!! My hand was swollen after. That would be a case of child abuse these days. By the way if I make a pie these days I ALWAYS make the slit with a knife, just to say to Mrs Ainsworth.....on yer bike, I do it My way!!

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Spent most of my school life loking at my shoes, almond was a sadistic **** Mulderic at least cained you in the office Spent half my life in that office !!!!!!!! CRABBY !!!!!!!!!!!:engsmil::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek: :eek::eek:

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Mrs Mitton sacred hart wasent it names mick crabtree if your ex S/H and H/F must no you:not_ripe:

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me, phill brady, neil donaoe, paul boocock ,and 60% of the school



!!!!!!!!!!!CRABBY!!!!!!!!!!!!!:engsmil::not_ripe:: not_ripe::not_ripe::not_ripe::not_ripe::not_ripe:

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Hello every one I went To Holy Family from 76-81. it was such a good laugh reading some of the post I remember most of the teachers names. ans Jessie hall. was great. spent most of my time getting my mark and whacking it. any one remember Mrs Baker PE.

Mr.Pickering
 

Just read about his death, deepest sympathy to his family, I liked him he was a good laugh compared with people like Mcaloon,

Mr. Robinson was the rubix cube genius, he solved it and used to sell the solution for 5p a copy, he migrated to Ausarlia,

Ne one remember Mcaloon saying " Boy u r a lemon, and lemons get squeezed so watch out" I suppose these days this could be considered a pickup line LOL:)

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Great fun reading through all those memories long time since I was at HF 64 to 68 some teachers not mentioned I remember. Mrs. Cornthwaite cookery, lost her false nails making dough. Mr Pardon geography also taught religion made Paula Oughton sit on a drawing pin because she could not answer a question, Mr Doherty tall hulk of a guy had a cane with split ends used to pull it back over his shoulder till it touched the floor then wack it forward I remember it well, being on the other end of it. Mrs. Lindhirst I think taught art a bit wacko used to wear capes and glasses on the end of her nose . Known singer from ossy Pat Catlow taught music. Mrs. Mac (something) was teacher for Year 1 (Severn) 1964. Anyone sat at the front of Mulderricks class cant forget his picking and flicking, your book was full of boggies when the lesson finished. Most people remember Terry Neville for his sport but he was the best Math teacher I ever had.

Classes called Thames (brainy lot), Severn, Humber and Ribble

Year 1 Severn 1964/65
girls Lynn Astin, Anne Billington, Julie Coffee, Janet Davis, Maureen Dugdale, Christine Entwistle, Margaret Holden, Trica Holmes, Anne Lovell(RIP), Jean Maguire, Shelia McGowan, Kathleen Moore, Paula Oughton, Margaret Patterson, Lynn Pilkington, Susan Saunders, Lynne Whalley, Kathleen Whittaker
boys Barnes, Batt, Cavalery (RIP),Crook, Croston, Farrington, Hayes, Kopel, Stanley, Staves, Wilkinson
sorry if i forget anyone :confused: but would love to hear from any of you.:)

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any of you went 76- 81 love to catch up . now live in L.A.

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sorry just missed you left in 75.:Banane39:

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I also remember Mr Gidman English and Natural history ( top man )
Mrs Lindon art ( bohemian )

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did anyone leave in 1960? my mum and aunt went there

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I was around then but im a little older left he year it merged with paddoc Just my luck :(

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Looks like thee and me went to Holy Family at the same time. AND I used to live in Spring Hill. Hmmmm! I have no idea who you are and you probably have no idea who I am. The wonders of the internet.:D

So the question is now do you want to reveal yourself? Are you that brave? PM me if you think you can stand it.

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anyone leave in 75?.:banane58: :banane58: :banane58:

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I must be sad also, mine was Ward and Christine Ritson.:eek:

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I was there from 76-81 Arrowsmith Madam Metcalf. The French one.

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Miss. Mitton was a teacher at Sacred Heart, she used to thump you in the back if you didn't grasp what she was trying to teach you.:(

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She was even worst if you didn't drink your milk, God help us if we spilt any.

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She once gave me and my sister a real smack on our legs for going on the fire escape, she was really strict. Do you remember Miss. Harrison? She was at the Christmas concert the other year, I am fifty and she was there when I was, that makes her ancient!!:eek:

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I do remember her she was a really nice teacher haven't seen her or heard of her in years. Mrs Mackey was really sweet remember going to her to have teeth pulled (imagine a teacher doing that now).

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I was there mid 60s left about 64, the arty art teacher was ... well i wont use bad language. Mrs Griffin, anyone remember her? She was the deputy head mistress, the most sadistic woman i ever met. Mr Mayer the headmaster at the time tried his best, told me to reach for the stars etc... Miss Boyle the gym teacher used to scream "you bold creature", if we stepped out of line.Hated the school and most teachers ,but had some good times too. Remember the christmas parties with the teachers watching from the stage?

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Went to st oswalds 73 onwards and then paddock house 79-81 and then upto Holy family used to get caned off mulderrick all the time and of course took a few beatings off almond didn't do me any harm taught me a few lessons.
Sister went to holy family 68 onwards brother went(sometimes!) from 71 onwards other sister went from 75 onwards baby brother went from 1980 onwards.

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I went to Sacred Heart then Notre Dame for a couple of years then to Holy Family. I would have been there from about 70-73 or thereabouts.:confused:

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I was there 68 - 72, what was yr sis called - I'm Mick McAvoy

Owd picknflick caned everyone didn't he....... but then again we probably deserved it.....lol

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hi i went to hollins left in 1995

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This is Holy Family try this for Hollins
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...hlight=hollins

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Hey all you old timers from the best schoo' in accy

Theyre having an open evening on Tues 2nd Oct - open to everyone not just parents etc

Might just have a mosey up and have a look around the old place

(sure I left a penny arrow bar on top of one of the cupboards on the tech drawing room.... might still be there....lol)

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I remember seeing it next to my MO-JO:Banane25:

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Miss Baker was every schoolboys dream.........older woman, short skirts........tremendous. I also saw Miss Jessie Hall MBE last year.

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Lots of good memories! I was there from 76-81 in Arrowsmith, madame Metcalf was my form teacher. I can't remember all the houses I remember Rigby and Clitheroe but what were the others? I had Mr Mulligan for english the first two years I was there. I had Mr sanderson for math- he was always telling us jokes very little math was taught. I was thrown out of mr Parfitts french class and told to go do art with Miss/Mrs Snape-she was a great Art teacher. Who was the other art teacher who was really serious about Art and would grade you really severly- I don't think Piccaso would get a grade higher than a D. Do any of you remember Mr obrien or obby general science teacher? And Mr Mc Keown was the biology teacher. I cant remember what the woodwork teacher was called or the physics teacher.

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Mr Sanderson and Mr Bold if I remember correctly, both good teachers who helped me get my O levels in both subjects.:)

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Mr Walling was the physics teacher, and Mr Bold taught me Chemistry.

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Mr Kendal was chemistry, Mr Bold physics, who was Mr Walling?

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I guess it all depends on what years you went to school there.What years where you there Bagpuss?

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You will have been at school the same time as me......I was in arrowsmith too. I can picture the art teachers name but i cant remember his name. I met obby about two years ago, he was a teacher at St Augustines near Whalley. Miss Hall is still alive and kicking and met her not long back. I remember Mr Mc Kewan also. Mr Bold was the physics teacher, and do you remember Benny Hill the lab technician ? By the way I'm Paul Harling.

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I went to Mount Carmel 2000-2005 and the houses were Arrowsmith, Clitheroe, Hurst, Rigby and Southworth.
Don't know if they were the same for Holy Family?
They have actually made a new house now; Ward, simply because there's too many pupils for the other forms.

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Just remembered who the art teacher was...........Mr Rushton.

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Yep they were the same including Ward my form when I was there 80s.

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The names of the houses were the same in the seventies when I was there

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Yep they were the same but no ward.:theband:

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If I remember correctly Ward used to be Fisher.

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Frank White thats my brother!! Sisters Julie White Carol and baby David.:D

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I was at the Holy Family when it first open in August 59, The house names then were St. David, St. Andrew, St Goerge and St. Patrick I think. I was house Captain of St. David in 1962 my last year there, I stayed on until I was 16, the official leaving age in those days was 15

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Bob Almond, I felt it!!

Form Names
 

Arrowsmith, Campion, Southworth, Fisher, Hurst, with the following colours
repectively, White, yellow, blue, green, purple.

I think there was an orange somewhere but can't remember the name.


Each year they used to change the order around so that 1 year Arrowsmith were the brightest and Fisher the thickos, then the next year it would be a different order.

Does anyone remember this or is it just me

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I was in Rigby, cant remember the names of all the forms, though we didnt have colours. My year 11 personal tutor was fred bentley, and I left in 2005. Fred Bentley left not long after.

Of course, its mount carmel now not Holy family :p

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I went to St Oswalds '59 and then on to Paddock, left in '69

Holy Family was still at St Oswalds when I started, there was a wall and a metal gate separating the big school from the little school. Not long after I started they moved to the new school.
Teachers I remember at St Oswalds Miss birch my very first teacher. Miss Gardiner Head teacher.
every Friday we were marched to Sacred Heart church for benediction. Every Monday Father Stack ( I Think ) would come and grill us if we had been to church on the Sunday.
At Paddock the houses were
Augustine, Moore, Campion and Fisher Head teacher Sister Mary Magdalene
Rhyddings always took the mickey out of us due to the uniform.
the dog biscuit factory used to stink in the summer
Looking back they were happy days

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A bit to upmarket for us at the Holy Farm as we called it back then, Father Stack came to HF as well he was school chaplin

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Holy Family Re-union do again - Fri 30th May - Bridge Inn Church, 7.30 onwards

Lets see how many of me old class of 71/72 turn up agsin - lots at last 2 meets :hehetable

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I was at St Oswalds from 1961, and Paddock from 1967, I was an 'x'. Miss Birch was my first teacher too. She was a holy terror, if ever a woman should not have been around small children this was her. My mother once went to see her and gave her hell after she told my brother that God didn't love him 'cos he was naughty. After she retired she lived in the Spring Hill area, and was a friend of my aunt (who agreed with me about the small children!!) Miss Gardener was a great headteacher. I remember walking to Sacred Heart on a Friday for Benediction, and also the interrogation by Father Stack on a Monday. Do you remember Father Houlahan? He used to play football on Lower Antley St with the lads that lived nearby, he was a lovely man. I believe that he was at a parish in Manchester about 5 years ago. I wonder if he's still alive.

You are right about Stirling Dog Foods, it smelled foul winter and summer. We used to go in the public loo's on the end of Moscow Mill St for a crafty ciggie at dinner times, also to the stream down the side of the school.
Happy days.

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Holy terror! never heard her called that before, but can remember lots of other unprintable ones.

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I was at Sacred Hart late 60 remember Father Houlahan but not Stacks The one to dread then was Father Dwyer

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Later to become Dean Stacks

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does anyone remember FATHER. Rimmer, i had a few run ins with him.

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I remember him he was a bit scary:eek: But Dean Stack was a softie under all that bluff, his bark was worse than his bite:p

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yea dean stack was a pussycat compared to him .....

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knew him well, was at St.Josephs with Father Henderson in the early 70s, ask me at the meet mez if ya remember, got a funny tale about him, top geezer in my book.;):)

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Did'nt know you were RC, Mr C.

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ya do now Al was married in st Josephs by Father Rimmer.;)

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Anybody remember Fr. Houlahan(might be spelt wrong)? He was a lovely man, used to come and give Dad communion at home because he couldn't get to church. Of all the priests I can remember he must be my favourite.

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I remember them all being a ex alterboy at st heart in the late 60s.

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My brother sent me a clipping from the Observer, of the latest Holy Family reunion, can any one identify the people on there, I can still recognise Katie Boyle the girls PE teacher and Terry Neville, & Dennis Cassidy , is Franny Franks on there as well. but none of the others.

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Fr Houlahan was my favorite too he was very fair & at least he listened to you .........not like Fr Rimmer !!!

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I was in the same class as Franny, Alan, Denis Cassidy was our form teacher when the school first opened

Fred Bentley
 

Not sure , whether this is the right pace for this post, but just read that he died a few days ago. Soo sad,

I really don't know what to say, except deepest sympathies to his family.

He really was one of the best. I used to hate sports but he was still a great PE teacher.

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So sorry to hear about Fred Bentley, - decent bloke when we were there, great outside school on trips, holidays etc, a firm but fair teacher

Condolances to his family and friends

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Was his brother called Paul ?.

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Can remembe his brother Alan but can't for the life in me remember his name, can even picture him in school days, alhough the name Harry is in the back of my mind. Fred was in the year lower that me at the Holy Family, but knew him quite well, nice bloke, was very sad to hear of his death. The more I think of it, the more surer I now his brother was called Harry, Fred and Harry Bentley yip thats it

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Hi I'm working at Mount Carmel at the moment and need some history on the merger of Paddock House and Holy Family. Could anybody help? I'm looking for the date when they merged to become Mount Carmel.

With regards to the first thread about Fred, unfortunately Fred did die a few months back of cancer. Everyone at school was deeply affected at hearing the new of his death and many went to pay their respect at his funeral. There has been a facebook account set up in his memory with many many lovely comments about him. Welcome to Facebook! | Facebook

Thanks

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our cookery teacher was mrs cornthwaithe

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went to school with christine

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the headmaster when i was there was mr brunskill any one remember

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She Used to give me a lift back to school every lunch time, she lived in a bungalow opposite the Stop and Rest, in Fielding Lane at the time

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creep........:D

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It's a scandal if you ask me:)

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what i thought really.........but being a gentleman.:)

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Gentleman, now that is a scandal:p

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Jaysay. When I went there I had to walk. Mind you she probably thought you were a good cook

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Unfortunately Robert (ha ha ha) I was never in her class, but the cookery room was our form room in I think the forth year, in other words Mrs C just used to mark the register then we were on our travels for the rest of the day, think she used to take pity on John Waldron and myself slogging back up Spring Hill Road after lunch:D

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I remember miss Griffin used to stand at door and check you had your beret and clean black shoes

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Other teachers Mr Neville, Miss Hargreaves, Mr Swarbrick, Mr Moore, Mr Noblet, Mr Hughes, Mr Bob Almond, Mr McDonald, Miss Ashworth, Miss Doran,

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I remember all those teachers Alan, particular Bob Almond. He taught metal work if I remember right.

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Mr Hughes was the Woodwork Teacher, was the brother of Leo Hughes the funeral undertaker which was near Sacred Heart church, unfortunately when you got into the 4th year you had to choose between Metalwork and Woodwork, woodwork was my choice

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Ive mentioned Miss Doran ( Music Teacher ) dos'nt anyone remember her, she was a sexy little thing.