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  1. Harry Hough

    Harry Hough Well-Known Member

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    Remember his first day as a teacher. Longest hair in the school. Top bloke.
     
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    Harry Hough Well-Known Member

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    Vince Prooth once refereed a house rugby game despite being red/green colour blind. Can't for the life of me remember the Houses though. Think it may have been Sadler (red) v Holgate (green) but I could be wrong.
     
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    To demonstrate the principles of leverage, I seem to remember him getting trussed up in ropes in Clerk Maxwell lab and having us haul him up to ceiling height.

    Mad as a bike but a lovely bloke.
     
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    wow...that's well remembered stahlrost. I was in that team. who are you?
     
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    I was the keeper mate. I would have eventually rivalled Gordon Banks, but I had nowt to do for 3 successive seasons so never got any practice. If the internet were around in those days I could have leaned against the post messing about on Facebook, and would still not have conceded.
     
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    flagged!
     
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    flegger!
     
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    That's it. PM on the way...…...
     
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    My late Uncle, John Taylor, taught at Holgate during the 60s, not sure of the exact years. Taught Geography and Geology. He was also involved with the football teams. Somewhere at my mother's house there are several notebooks detailing the matches played, teamsheets, results and scorers etc. The names mentioned earlier in this thread were a reminder, wihh Simcox a standout name. I'm sure from memory of reading these notebooks in past years that he was a good goalscorer. If I can find them, I'll upload some pictures.
     
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    Don't suppose anyone went to De La Salle in Sheffield?
     
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    My Uncle did, as above, John Taylor. He was from Grimethorpe.
     
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    "Jacques" Hannaford - strange how the boys at Holgate always liked to give nicknames to the teachers. I remember him when he was a skinny first former going round the cross country course which in those days involved running up the playing fields and then round Pogmoor, Tommy TreddleHoyle, down Summer Lane and back up Dodworth Road to the school. His real name was James, but we tended not to use first names much - if anything it was Jimmy. Eric Goodman was always Herman (Herman the German); Vince Prooth - his real name was Victor Prooth but he gave himself the middle name of Samuel so he could sign himself VSP. He taught me English for O level and A level, and I came across him years later when he was teaching in Singapore - we became good friends and I went to his memorial service in London. "Horace" Jarvis really was Horace Jarvis. I also notice a Lynch on the photo who was always called "Benny" though that wasn't his name. J P Bramall - "Yogi" Where did that come from? Eric Goodman wasn't German at all - he was an Austrian Jew and the rumour was that he had represented Austria in the Berlin Olympics and had a swastika burned into his back. I don't know the truth, I think he did have a number tattoed on his arm - so does anybody know? He was the unfittest PE teacher ever and used to smoke like a chimney and go up to the playing fields in his car.
     
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    Wes Hall bet me 50p in 1973 that I wouldn't pass Economics O level. I passed, and I haven't seen him since; with compound interest that must be worth a tidy sum now...
     
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    Locke ' Dark Blue
    Sadler 'black & gold"
    Lancaster _ red & white
    Keresforth - 'purple '
    Holgate - Green
    Horne- white & black
    Cooper - yellow & black
    Butler - pale nlue
     
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    Were you in the same year as me, ND? I took my 'O' levels in 1973 and my 'A' levels in 1975.

    Wes Hall was one of my favourite teachers and obviously inspired me, as I was Head of Economics and Business Studies at a large state school when I was 26.

    I was house captain of Lock Sadler, and was goalkeeper for the school team, winning the league and cup (at Oakwell) in the U15s. I was the year below Stahlrost.
     
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    Did he have ginger hair and teach geography?
     
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    Herman Goodman was "Nunk" to all and sundry. Once bollocked me for not wearing shinpads
     
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    This was changed when I got there (1980)
    Locke Sadler - royal blue
    Cooper Butler - yellow
    Holgate Horne - green
    Keresforth Lancaster - dark red
     
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    By the time I went they'd amalgamated the houses, mine was Locke-Sadler and the stripe in the tie was orange.
     
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    Wes Hall seems to have been a legend with every year he taught. He was always one of our favourite teachers.
     
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