| R C 'Arsey' Chapman - |
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| 'Ben'
Bailey - French teacher |
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| Mr Blades - |
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| Stanley Cook ('Silas') - English
teacher |
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| Mr C (Drags)
Draycott - French & German |
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| Dr Joe Eker ('Joe
Plug') - French language
teacher from the 1940s onwards.
His usual way of talking about his charges was to call us "little stinkers"
in his thick accent. When pupils complained about the weekly vocabulary tests every Monday
morning, they received the reply "I'm working on the principle that if you
fling enough dung against a wall, some of it's bound to stick!" |
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| Mr Harrison ('Pod') -
Engineering Science teacher - "a music/record collector (with strange feet)
used to teach in the left hand prefab classroom in the playground. This
together with its neighbouring room had underfloor heating and in Winter we
would take our shoes off and warm our feet on the floor tiles. If Pod caught
you there was a heavy price to pay which included having your shoes thrown
into the playground! A fate I managed to avoid!" (Martyn Chapman) |
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| Reginald C
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| Alan Haywood (Boris) - Russian
language teacher |
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| CH 'Moke' Hipkins - English
teacher |
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| Chas Holmes - Physics teacher |
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| Spike Johnson
- Senior History teacher |
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'Sam' Jones |
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| Mr Lamb - Deputy Head in the
late 1960s (replacing Mr Wetherill) |
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| Mr R W Machin - 'Daddy' - Physics &
Maths.
Peter Dewsnap's memory of Daddy Machin was
that during Physics classes, whilst writing on the blackboard, he would be
watching us in the reflection in his glasses. If anyone misbehaved he
would say "Stop that so-and-so (name of boy)", turn round and, with unerring
accuracy, throw the chalk at the offender! |
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| Dr Dick Mayhew - Geography teacher
- one of the best! |
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| Jock Mckay - PE teacher
"Jock had a 'special' way of chastising pupils. If anyone misbehaved, he
would remove a plimsoll and send the lad on his way around the gym. Jock
would pursue. It was a race and if he caught up with the miscreant, he'd
give him a whack across the backside with the plimsoll. However, everyone
loved Jock... a great man." (Peter Dewsnap) |
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| Mr Molineux - Chemistry teacher |
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| Mr Montgomery - |
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| Mr Parry ('Panj') - Music teacher |
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| Mr Rhodes ('Prods') - Chemistry
teacher |
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| John Sherwood - PE teacher.
Joined the school in September 1969. He was relatively well-known in that he had won a bronze medal in the 400 metre
hurdles at the Mexico City Olympic games at the Ciudad de México on 20
October 1968. His team comprised of the following athletes: Martin Winbolt-Lewis, Colin Cambell, David Hemery, John Sherwood |
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| Alan Smith ('Adolf') - a former
pupil of the school and later a history
teacher, replacing 'Soike' Johnson in 1977 as Head of History. Arrived at
the school in the late 1960s and was a teacher whose bark definitely was as great as his bite!
Perhaps this was the reason why he came to be known as 'Adolf'?! After his
departure from Firth Park School around 1980, he become Head of 6th Form and
Deputy Head at Lawnswood High School, Leeds. From there he became Head of Ashbourne School
in Derbyshire. After a period of ill-health, he returned to teaching on a
part-time basis. |
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| Mr D. A. Smith - in 1967 'Das'
left FPGS to work at Ecclesfield Grammar School |
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| Mr Wetherill ('Duke') - Deputy Head |
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| Dr Frederick T Wood
(at FPGS from1928 - 1966) ('Hefty') -
Head of English: "a good and noble teacher"; perhaps the school's most
academically distinguished teacher * |
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| Notes:
* taken from "Shire Green, Wincobank &
Ecclesfield" by Bryan Woodriff |
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Mr Rhodes 'Prods', Duke
Weatherill, R C 'Arsey' Chapman and C H 'Moke' Hipkins |
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Chas Holmes, John 'Panj'
Parry, Mr Wilson (Head), Mr 'Daddy' Machin, 'Spike' Johnson and Daz Smith |
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