FAO Stahlrost and Harry Hough

Left 6th form in 1974 and went to uni in Nottingham.

 

You had girls there by then didn't you? We only had the joint 6th form High school dance (debacle) every year. Unless you were in the Rugby 1st XV or had a sister you were 'sh*t scared (many of us were very naïve in those days) as the girls were sat down one side and the lads down the other and it was a sort of 'no-mans land' in the middle apart from the aforementioned brave souls who got the best lookers by venturing across to the 'enemy lines'. When we tried it we got most of the way across and the 'target' often went into a sort of huddle with her friends and they would start to giggle and whisper. I now know it was that they were just as nervous (if only I had known then) but at the time retreat was the only option.
A load of us usually went up to the 'Grey Horse' for the rest of the evening.

 

Broadway man missen

1958 to 63 and proud of it.

 

There were no girls when I was there (apart from Miss Orrah, a stunning trainee art teacher who once......oh never mind, can't put that on here....). I think it was the next year when girls arrived.

I went to the High School do a few times but in my experience it was OK. I got off with a lass once only to discover she was an identical twin - every time we went out I was never sure whether I'd got the right one as they often "swapped" to take the piss. We used to go in the Grey Horse too, and the Miners.

 

We had a trainee teacher who took us for French 'Oral' (We wish) for a couple of terms when studying for O level. She was sensational I seem to remember (still failed French though - could never concentrate on what she was saying when she was talking to us). She was always the model of decorum but she certainly knew that in a room full of hormonal adolescents she was definitely an object of desire

 

Yes, played on Siberia for the U15s lots!

 

I left 6th form in 78 and we did't have girls there , although Spot Avery insisted on calling anyone with long hair Mary

 

Add to that list Darton High in Kexborough - now a brand new building.

 

I left Holgate in 1975 (went to Liverpool Uni), and remember Spot Avery (History) well, as well as Frank Ellerby (Geography) and Wes Hall (Economics).

 

Wes Hall...Didn't he end up lecturing at the LSE? He was brilliant apart from the piles of purple A4 handouts from the banda-master he produced. He took us to virtually degree standard at A level and dragged even me to an A level pass. Always remember him discussing Supply and Demand and diminishing marginal utility principles with Burdon-Bailey in our group whose family owned Baileys (we supply all but the baby) store in town, quoting the centrefold of Playboy magazine and the models 'attributes'. Would probably have got a 'disciplinary' nowadays. But he was quite a cool guy at the time.

 

I remember a beautiful trainee German conversation teacher when I was doing my German O level in about 1972. She had such a profound effect on me that I eventually married a German lass 28 years later!

 

Chuck cudeth secondary in to the mixer too. ;

 

Don't know about Wes Hall lecturing at the LSE, but he was a cool bloke and I remember his piles of banda handouts.

He inspired me to read Economics at University, and by the time I was 26 I was Head of Economics in a large state school in Bolton (Flicker territory!).

 

We used to go to the Grey Horse too, on Friday and Saturday nights. Also "Changes" disco in the town centre.

What was it with the Grey Horse - a long way from the centre?

 

Spot - remember him well. Had his own telly to watch the racing.

 

Remember Spot, Frank Ellerby, Jack Livsey, Goodman pe teacher. Bacon for English, Norman Goddard.

Seems like only yesterday, not 40+ years ago