Remember one lad at school being physically so much bigger than anyone else. Captain of the football team, but not the usual big head or bully you'd normally associate with someone in that position. He appeared far more mature than any of his mates both on the football pitch and round the school, a decent lad. Now what was his name? Ah yes, I remember. Mick McCarthy.
taken from a facebook post Things you don't ever forget from primary school! #1 . Accidentally doing the thing that Simon hadn't said in Simon Says and feeling like you'd let your family, your school and your country down! #2 . Practically **** yourself with excitement when the teacher wheeled the t.v into the classroom! #3 . Sitting on the back row of the coach, when on a school trip, meant that you had finally made it in life! #4 . That rumour that the blue side of a rubber could erase ink when in reality it erased the ****ing paper! #5 . Covering your spelling paper with your pencil case cos all your classmates were 6 year old cheating *******s! #6 . Being sent to 'the wall' at playtime and having to watch all of your friends play whilst you stood and lost all of your dignity! #7 . Having to go out of the school gates to get the ball that went over the fence and returning like a hero coming back from war! #8 . The lad who the could perform the longest knee slide was guaranteed to pull at the school disco! #9 . Being allowed in the staff room to help your teacher carry something and feeling like you were practically entering Narnia! #1 0. Miming the songs in assembly instead of actually singing because you lived the thug life and cared for nobody!
Having to carry the nets and posts down to the bottom field at Darton High and then put them up in sub zero biting winds. Then having to take them down and carry them back up again after the match. Hot rice or 'pegs' in the playground. Puma sports bags, snorkel jackets and reversible rugby/football shirts. The Alarm, the Bunnymen and the Cure.
Yip, left in 82, and as was the norm for the era we had a little gang of Micky Skinheads ..... and teachers used to take great delight in giving me (and my skinhead mates) a 30 mins after school detetion, which meant I'd missed my school bus to Mapp, so had to risk a clip round the ear legging it up Laithes Lane on my own LOL
Good lad , I left in 74 and it was the same then . I reckon that now the school as merged there isn't any rivalry , and it's the best thing that could have happened . No more school buses getting bricked ! Ha Ha .
Hang on a minute, that was Stephen Fry, I think I've read his autobiography too often. I din't nick stuff.
Re: gassing the cockroach tank in the Biology lab Just replying to this so that if there's ever a serial killer loose in Tarn I can check my post history and find it to forward to the police.
flicks nearest to the line.....1p 2p or a biggy....a 10p coin flick!! all lined up in the corridor waiting to see the headmaster after being caught gambling! and calling each other 'puffs' in the playground! hth