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  1. Dusty Miller anyone? Known to turn round suddenly if he heard talking and hurl a wooden blackboard rubber like an Exocet missile at a random (usually blameless) boy.
     
  2. Relegation Certs

    Relegation Certs Squad Player

    It explains a lot about why they are so fragile on here and get upset easily. It must be hard to strike out into the big wide world without the emotional support of your fag.
     
  3. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

    On sale a WH Smith, Waterstones and other good book stores

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  4. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Vaguely. Dreadful History teacher ? Maybe not him....
    I remember Evans (biology & Sport)
    Killer Collins (Chemistry and my form teacher for years)
    Mr Rycroft (english....and possible legal action stops me saying any more)
    Mr McCabe (English...and ditto)
    Mr Clayton (geography - shortest fuse of any man on earth and clearly having anger management classes as we had to sit and listen "to the furthest sound we could hear" for the first 3 mins of every lesson.
    Mr Taylor(?) Latin - great teacher
    Mr Tibbett - PE. Brought the stranglers "no more heroes" into a lesson for us to do circuit training too. Great lesson !

    ....and regularly beating up those wimps from Ricky comp.
     
  5. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

    As a WBGS "estate" boy I remember all three. Lister and Marrow were the strictest teachers I had ever come across. Ben "the nose" was a Quaker and a strict disciplinarian. We also had his wife and I think son ( or brother?) there - known as Bill Ben and little weed.
    Dusty Miller (Maths) and "geg" Greenwood (with tales of Carathumpia) for us turds on dark winter afternoons.
    Killer Collins had a heart attack while I was at the school and was never quite the same after - nice guy though.
    Neil Hart also taught me history in the Sixth Form - a really nice guy - we used to go to the pub with him after history society meetings in the evenings. Years later I often bumped into him in the Clarendon Arms. (does that still exist?)
    Trog joined in my first year to replace Harry Rees. I thought Trog was a rubbish Head.
     
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  6. Clarendon Arms is now a Prime Steakhouse - and it is very good, especially set price weekday lunch menu. Owned by a season ticket holder in the UGT.
     
  7. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

    So did my son
     
  8. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

    I remember him - nasty piece of work - taught French I think
     
  9. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

    and always gave detention (Saturday mornings in those days) as 3 hours - one for the last offence which he missed, one for this one and one for the next one which he would miss.
     
  10. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Perhaps you are KelsoOrn's father ?
     
  11. Anybody go to Latin master Cyril Oaten's house in Sarratt to see the large gauge model railway in his garden? His son was Mark Oaten who left the Lib Dems in some ignominy.
     
  12. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

    Who know's - have you seen some of the political scraps we have had on here? Mind you we are only about two years apart in age so perhaps not.
     
  13. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

    Never had Cyril as a master (only remember him teaching French) and did not know Mark was his son.
    I was not musical but remember two music masters - one kept bees and lived in Cassiobury Drive - can't think of his name (edit: Frank Thomas?) and the other was a younger guy called Didcock.
     
  14. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    Now there's a name that's died out.
    Thought he lived in Parkside Drive and cycled through the park to school ?
     
  15. Mr Didcock. Head like a lightbulb, like the teacher in South Park. Taught me (briefly) violin.
     
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  16. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    When he retired, the end of term assembly had the whole school in the main hall and a totally spontaneous standing ovation broke out for the man which lasted a good 5 minutes.
     
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  17. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Didcock as the "younger guy" must put us a generation apart. He was ancient by the time I attended through the early 90s.
     
  18. andrew2209

    andrew2209 First Year Pro

    Fellow Old Parmiterian here, not that long gone though
     
  19. Sting

    Sting Squad Player

    Yup - 62 to 69 were my years. 2 years I think behind another old boy David Sullivan
     
  20. hornetgags

    hornetgags McMuff's lovechild

    Didcock was the older music teacher. Mr Muhley was the younger one when I was there.
     
  21. hornetgags

    hornetgags McMuff's lovechild

    I know he was Head Master for a year, did he not want it full time? It happened after I left, so don't know the full story. I was shocked when I saw Holman as the HM.
     
  22. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Mr Thorold was the younger music teacher when I was there. Didcock saw off a succession of pretenders it seems.

    Anyone remember Griffiths the maths teacher?
     
  23. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    I was the porno merchant in my era. I had two vhs hooked up to copy smuts and a friendly arrangement with the metshop man for old editions off the top shelf
     
  24. Rich A

    Rich A Academy Graduate

    Christine Stone, she was fit. Left the job the day before she first appeared on page 3.
     
  25. hornetgags

    hornetgags McMuff's lovechild

    Yep, reminded me of Harpo Marx
     
  26. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Yes. We called him Coco.

    He was a top, top, top teacher though
     
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  27. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I remember him. He was indeed. Probably owe my career as an accountant to him.
    B******d.
     
  28. KelsoOrn

    KelsoOrn Squad Player

    Surprisingly no. Left of my own volition (well probably by mutual agreement like Quique really) and went to Ricky for the sixth form. Still selective then. Much better. Populated by normal people. And girls mmmm ...
     
  29. KelsoOrn

    KelsoOrn Squad Player

    Trog, Lister, Topsfield, Marrow. I hated all the pompous barstewards swanning about in their stupid black robes like they owned the place ...
     
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  30. The undeniable truth

    The undeniable truth First Team Captain

    I wouldn't have got any qualifications if there was the added complication of girls in the room.
     
  31. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player

    I nearly went to Merchant Taylors - Moore Park Richard's old school.

    This was when I was 11 and leaving Harvey Road.

    I had to go for a day long exam and interview there. Went on the tube and walking up the long, long tree-lined drive clutching my carrier bag with my pens etc in, there were big black limousines sweeping past driven by uniformed chauffers with little kids my age sat in the back wearing blazers and caps with coloured hoops around them.

    After the exam we had lunch and as we were eating, the lad sat next to me turned around to look at me and without a "hello" or "My name's Cedric" or whatever his opening gambit (delivered in cut crystal tones) was "My father has just bought me a thousand lead soldiers". I can remember it now still all these years later, because even then it seemed like an utterly bizarre thing to say. I can't remember exactly how I replied. Something along the lines of "oh" and that was lunch conversation over.

    Somehow I passed the exam and the interview and my parents were thrilled when I got the offer of a free scholarship and mortified when I absolutely, point blank refused to entertain the idea. I'd had the first stirrings of pre-pubescent revolutionary conscience and knew for absolute certain that I most certainly did not want to spend five years or more in the company of those chinless, personality-vacuum, possessions-obsessed, out of touch tosspots.

    You can imagine that there were scenes, but I stood firm. As we lived in Croxley at the time, I'd looked at and liked Ricky Grammar (which had recently turned comprehensive) and wanted to go there, but Watford Grammar was a compromise. Lot of good it did me.

    To this day my mother still shakes her head and says sadly things like "Ah, if only you'd gone to Merchant Taylors, you might have been a qualified chartered accountant now!".

    I sometimes wonder if only I'd gone to Ricky, where I wanted to go, whether I might at least have come out of school with one or two exam passes, or even have stayed on for 6th form. Also, being mixed unlike WBGS, I might not have spent my late teens and twenties in total innocence of women and believing them all to be universally sweetness and light!

    I've been careful in giving my kids a big say in what schools they want to go to. Even at 11, you should have the majority say in your future I reckon.
     
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  32. Luther Bassett

    Luther Bassett Reservist

    I’ll keep a watch out for this.
     
  33. Forzainglese

    Forzainglese Reservist

    I left Ricky while it was still a grammar, which betrays how long ago it was. It had girls, unlike WBGS. Thus there only about half the number of boys to chose from, but we still managed to thrash WBGS at every sport except cricket. St Joan of Arc had only girls at secondary level and was generally known as 'The Virgin Mary School'. Single sex schools perform better at academic stuff but mixed schools do the non-examined, in between the lines social preparation better, to cut a very long story short; at least, in my opinion.
     
  34. wfcmoog

    wfcmoog Tinpot

    Considering WBGS only competed at Hockey, Rugby and Cricket, and I don't believe you beat them at either of the first two and concede that you didn't at the latter, I'm going to put this down as misremembering on your part.
     
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  35. Clive_ofthe_Kremlin

    Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player


    Thus explaining why we ex-alumni know so little about football....
     
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