Where did you go to school

[bigbadwolf]

Did any of you go to school locally? I did and went to Eliot Bank (1988-95) and Forest hill boys (1995-2000) and what teachers do you remember and which do you want to forget.

[Keef]

St John, and St Clement's when it was on Northcross Road, 1982or3 - 1989 then Aske's 1989 - 1996. John Skinner the music teacher at Aske's was a great guy, did a lot for us, and put in a ridiculous amount of hours!

[jumpinjackflash]

Fairlawn Primary school and then Sydenham Girls - Mrs Plum is the HE teacher who I'd like to forget!

[LuvPeckham]

Sadly, the school of Hard Knocks .... I wasn't allowed in the School of Life, or Poker School as I was a disruptive pupil...

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Archbishop Tenisons Grammar School 1965-71. Kennington Oval.

Went back to the first time last Thursday and spoke to Leroy the 50-year-old Schoolkeeper who spoke more wisdom than I've heard in many a long day.

Teachers?

Headmaster: T.J.Sumner

Deputy Head: George Lewis (French Teacher)

ENGLISH: Joe Laidlaw-Brown..Immaculate in every way. Long flowing Black Robes...

Memorable Conversation:

Joe LB : "Hamlyn What does Onomatoepeia mean?"

Hamlyn: "Dunno,Sir"

Joe LB: "You Hamlyn,you come from the BACK streets of South London where you eat your fish and chips"..with a look of utter disdain.:)

English: Also Jim Fruin/"Mo" Conway/Fanny Fry/ "Bo-Diddly Gray.

MATHS:

1 Hugh Lindsay: Footballer-Harrow and Wealdstone

2 Bruno Brown

FRENCH:

1/ "Pappy" Alexander.

MP: "Knight first you fart then you belch GET OUT!"

French Also: 2/ Blossom Rees 3/ Miss Matear 4/ "Windy" Gale

History:

1/ "Ben" Birchenough-VERY strict disciplinarian...Used to twang his braces constantly.

2/ "Cod" Giles.

3/ Jim Cartwright

GEOGRAPHY:

1/ "Doris" Hart

2/ "Basher" Bates...Weekly Test,aged 11/12-Half the kids get under 10/20.We,then,all retake the test and a stroke of the cane for every half mark under 10/20 the 2nd time.

ECONOMICS

1/ "Lurch" Smith

ART:

"Jumbo" Johnson

GERMAN:

1/ John Trevelyan a.k.a "Zombie"

MP: "Why do you lie to me so repeatedly?"

LATIN:

1/ Herr Neuen-Baumer:

Sadistic-Used to back-hand Boys across the face if they got something wrong.

2/ "Harry" Hopwood

PHYSICS:

1/ "Danny" Misselbrook

2/ Doctor Polka

MP- "Minus FIVE!"

BIOLOGY:

1/ "Charlie" Arnold

2/ Jim Neville

CHEMISTRY

1/ Mr. Robertson

PHYSICAL EDUCATION.

1/ "Dave" Wyld

2/ Jim Stokell

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION(!)

1/ "Jed" Stone

WOODWORK:

1/ Mr. Burrows

TECHNICAL DRAWING:

1/Mr. Balsam

SCIENCE:

1/ "Enoch" Powell

[BARA]

Grove Vale 1955 - 1961 Mrs. McGregor Head Teacher. Mr. Graham Form Teacher.

1961- 1968 Friern Girls - HT Vida Thompson and her chintzy suits, Mrs. Lutz form teacher ( with whom I kept in touch till her death a few years ago) Mr. Bell - Ding Dong - Maths teacher ((I give up none of you are any good -true none of us got entered in for O level Maths) Miss Vine - Grapes of Wrath- English. Miss Rees

Games and Biology, Mrs. Balinas - History/Form Teacher. Winifred Pringle Deputy then H.T.

Tony Cyrus - music - loved to dress in women's clothing at the end of term play put on by teaching staff. I seem to think he also pulled faces behind senior teachers backs to make us laugh.

Remember going out on a trip with class in year 1 or 2 all of us getting drenched- Mrs. Lutz took us to the annexe on the Friern Road site where there was coal fire to dry us all out. She then managed to get some milk and warmed it all up on a gas ring for us to drink.

[djfitz]

Synge Street Christian Brothers School (CBS)

Just off South Circular Road.

In Dublin.

Well, it was local for me.

Christian Brothers, generally, used to be sadists. But not as bad as the nuns. *shudder*

[CamberwellOz]

djfitz... I went to two schools run by nuns. Scarred for life. *double shudder* Evil witches.

[MelbourneGr]

bigbadwolf Wrote:

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> Did any of you go to school locally? I did and

> went to Eliot Bank (1988-95) and Forest hill boys

> (1995-2000) and what teachers do you remember and

> which do you want to forget.

I went to FHS during those years. I was in Drake House and we lost at everything.

Mr Samaroo and Walsh were good motivators.

Ms Levens threatened to expel me no fewer than 5 times in 5 years - and I was one of the good ones!

RE teachers were hot.

Mr Richardson was a good laugh and made history fun.

Drove past the school recently and didn't recognise it.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Grove Vale - 1978-1985

William Penn 1985-1990

[djfitz]

State Penn 98 to life

[bigbadwolf]

MelbourneGr are you talking about miss Cooper and miss Lucas as they were hot and Mr Richardson was a right laugh until his sad death. You're right as the place has changed beyond recognition.

[LuvPeckham]

I love this thread

All this really useful information, and with a bit more digging I can also find out where you all live, your mothers maiden name, your first pet and then go off on a spending spree with your cloned credit cards or stolen identity....

Can I say (as Mr Prudent), be careful about how much information you reveal about yourselves online, it doesn't take much to collate things together in order to steal your identity and as one of the questions on most credit card applications is "The name of your first school" then you are already starting to give out a lot of useful information...

That said, anyone want a blank credit card and cloneing kit - Going cheap as I nicked it from djFitz before he was banged up in the State Penn for crimes that I would rather not mention here.... B)

[mockney piers]

Same thing occured to me LP. I think somebody previously has talked about the mosaic effect and god knows there's a pretty complete picture of me out there cached on Google's servers!!

[PeckhamRose]

Broadstairs.

[LuvPeckham]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Same thing occured to me LP. I think somebody

> previously has talked about the mosaic effect and

> god knows there's a pretty complete picture of me

> out there cached on Google's servers!!

I know, and it's not a pretty picture either, a bit of a "Hockney joiner" affair if you ask me....

[Brendan]

Narrowslope

[mockney piers]

Great line in the Sopranos series 1 when his polish cleaner he's tupping likes a picture because it reminds her of "David Hockey"

[Shu.Kurimu.Sensei]

Went to Heber and FHB

Was in Drake house, for some reason, there was a recurrent joke about the Welsh house master (forgotten his name) shagging peoples mums all the time..

Richardson was a great laugh.

I remember the year above us being mental, they burnt down the convent, caused actual GBH to Medler the maths teacher

and some of them starred in pornos made by one of the music teachers that got arrested for said naughtiness.

Herr Boaks the German teacher inspired a life long love of exploring other cultures.

By the time I was in third year, pretty much half of the kids were drinking and smoking weed, and a fair few were regulars at the bookies in Sydenham.

If we are lucky enough to have kids, I will pay for them to go private!

[djfitz]

LuvPeckham Wrote:

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....

> That said, anyone want a blank credit card and

> cloning kit - Going cheap as I nicked it from

> djFitz before he was banged up in the State Penn

> for crimes that I would rather not mention

> here.... B)

I knew it!

If you hadn't swiped me cloner I could have bought that ticket to Rio before the filth caught up with me and I'd be sitting back drinking Pina Colada's like they're going out of fashion now!

You've been warned !

[luke dogwalker]

Forest Gate High in E7(td)

[microbite]

Peckham Madhouse (opposite Pregnant Girls!) >:D

[EDOldie]

Village Infants, DHJS and then the hell that was Wilsons Grammar School in Camberwell. This was a school with pretentions to the aristocracy, ie it thought it was a minor public school. Bullying was actively encouraged, corporal punishment was rife and the CCF used live amunition on school grounds. A few well known ex puplis notably Michael Caine and John Galliano.

[Moos]

FRENCH:

1/ "Pappy" Alexander.

MP: "Knight first you fart then you belch GET OUT!"

Call me vulgar, but I laughed like a drain (d'you see what I did there?) at that one.

Did Knight have the gumption to say 'Sorry sir, I didn't know you had to belch first?'

[Azul]

Hogwarts