Does anyone remember Peckham Manor School?

[atila the gooner]

As a callow youth I attended this august institution, which no longer exists. Does anyone else out there remember this seat of learning and it's illustrious record of academic achievement(NOT).

[Rolo Tomasi]

Peckham Manor School. Did that become Warwick Park and now the Academy @ Peckham? If so you were a rough bunch but no worse than us...William Penn (Billy Biro)

[atila the gooner]

Yes, I believe that's the case. I was just wondering if there is anyone out there who actually went to the school.

[TillieTrotter]

Was it a mixed school? I Think my cousin Lisa went there. My husband also went to William Penn.

[shaman]

Was based opposite warick park school which was peckham girls my sister went there my brothers going to the manor I went to the lovely penn in the seventies

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

My ex-husband went there in the early 80's. It was a boys school then, and Peckham Girls was accross the road. All I remember him saying is that they always won school sports competitions and had a kick ass football team.

[atila the gooner]

I went ther in the late 60's and early 70's. We were unbeatable at all sports. Our sports master famously said, what we lacked in finesse, we more than made up for in aggression!!

[sybfox]

Yes I remember Peckham Manor and have created a facebook group for anyone interested...

Peckham Manor boys / Girls school

Thanks

Shiraz

[atila the gooner]

sybfox Wrote:

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> Yes I remember Peckham Manor and have created a

> facebook group for anyone interested...

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> Peckham Manor boys / Girls school

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> Thanks

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> Shiraz

As i know nothing about facebook, how do you access it? Does your info go back to the late 60's and early 70's?

Thanks

[norman]

Yes i went to peckham manor school.i left there in 1965.and it was an all boys school.but befor that it must have been a mixed becouse the entrace.one for boys one for girls.but i think it was in the 30,40,and 50s.but round about 55 it went to all boys.do enyone remember billson.and gamgi.and burrell

[blackadder]

I went to Peckham Manor from Thomas Carlton(Adys rd) as they amalgamated to

become Warwick Park in the early eighties.I presume due to falling school rolls.

My educatiom promptly went downhill from then on.

[Mick Mac]

Surely one Atila is enough for any forum?

[PDXMAN]

I went to PM from 70 - 75. It was a tough school and race tension was an everyday event. Some of the teachers cared but many of them were tired of the challenge.

Perhaps it was just me, but I think many of us graduated with a 'don't take no for an answer' attitude. I remember my first day, all in my new uniform. I had 5 fights that day, we were like wolves deciding the pecking order. As a small white kid with glasses it was important to show I was not one to be a target. It worked, Over the next 5 years I only had a handful more. I hated that place. it looked like a prison.

I Live in Oregon now and have a teen of my own. I made sure he attended a school with teachers that cared, well designed environment and surrounded by a beautiful park setting with every recreational facility any boy could want. He loves his school.

[Santerme]

I think we used to fight them on a Wednesday!

[ANDYGUN]

I was at Peckham Manor from 1960 to 1965. It was all boys, and the girls were across the road at Peckham Girls school. The only good thing I remember about the school was the school orchestra, I played the trombone, and the yearly school play.

The one bit of scandal was that a french teacher was made pregnant by the Head of Upper School. he was a retired major and still married.

I left without any O levels, but finished up as a university lecturer. I now run a boarding kennels and train gun dogs in South West France

[tmcarter]

I remember Peckham Manor, and the ex army Major (Grace) the Metal work teacher was Mr Gibbs I was in 5 Livingstone Shaftsbury

[antjamshep]

I should remember you but the guy who played the trombone when I played the violin at the same time as you was called Christopher? (I think) and he lived down Southampton Way.

[antjamshep]

A bell is ringing now, Andygun did you live in Mundania or Therapia road?

[Boddo]

I also went there from 70-75 class 1-6 through to 5-6 and went through the same thing also having me head put down the old outside toilets on me first day.

[uncleglen]

Wasn't its nickname Peckham Madhouse?

[PDXMAN]

Yeah the 1.1-8 system was just wrong. I was in in 1.7 to 5.7 (don't think it went to 6.7 did it?) it encouraged classism, those in .8 thought they were so special and we all kinda looked a little down on numbers below us. A bad system that encouraged elitism.

I remember getting banned from the school dinners for the rest of the year once for starting a food fight that really made a mess of the first floor hall. I went on to starting chalk fights in the art room. Lol

Anyone remember that science teachers name who was a former football player? Ooowww I just remembered.. mr Merrett. A really cool guy, made it almost livable.

Tell us your favorite teachers if you can remember.

[robmolyneux]

I went to peckham manor from 1963 to 1968 , and for a ginger haired boy with glasses and a bad stammer , it was hell on earth , that hellhole nearly drove me to suicide , i still have flashbacks to this day , that school was for twisted sadistic monsters who bullied me every school day for 6 long years , i met one of those creeps some years ago , and he had a shock , instead of the little weed in glasses ,he saw a 6ft well muscled man with smashing blonde bird on his arm , he tried to show me up , but i took him outside that pub , and took out my revenge on his face , needlessly to say , i left him in a bloody mess .

Yes that school taught me some good lessons for life :- 1 don't trust anybody

2 Do not make friends

3 work hard and fight to keep what you work for .

4 don't take shit from anybody .

Iam now a 4th dan in karate , own my own company , and am known as a complete and utter bastard .

[david_carnell]

Riiiiight.

*backs away slowly from the sociopath*

[StraferJack]

That sound you can hear is the clacking of a dozen keyboards googling " rob molyneux peckham" to find out a bit more

[computedshorty]

Just one post from robmolyneux.

Who has shot himself in the foot.

4th Dan, dont you mean Thug?

I agree with you, you are a complete and utter bastard.

The Bird on your arm must be a Vulture.

Lets hope she leaves you a skeleton.