Moorhead High School - Page 24

Wynonie Harris · 25-09-2008, 20:28

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Originally Posted by Morecambe Ex Pat

Jock Bentley - Maths

Maths??...he was the PE teacher when I was there in the AGS era. Can't imagine him teaching maths!

Morecambe Ex Pat · 25-09-2008, 20:58

This would be 1972 ish in the queens building. He was a small dumpy chap with a bit of a temper. I am pretty sure it was maths he taught and seemed the kind of teacher who had been there a long time. Now you mention it he was in charge of swimming when we went to the old Accy baths. He stood on the balcony and barked orders down from there.
I remember a swimming gala when one of the prefects fell in (not on purpose of course)

PE teachers then were Gordon Leach and a thug called Cartlidge.

A couple of others have come to mind - Mrs Shaw (Baggy) and Mr Hanrahan RE and classical studies, always very enthusiastic about homer long before the Simpsons

egg&chips · 25-09-2008, 22:50

You are right MEP, Jock definitely did teach maths but he also was heavily into PE. I remember he always seemed to wear a blazer with an amateur athletics association badge on it.
He was very different from "JAB" Bentley who taught english and bought some god-forsaken scottish island to live on or something after giving up teaching

Wynonie Harris · 25-09-2008, 22:51

Sounds like the same bloke, although he must have been getting on a bit by then. The only Cartledge I knew was Geoff Cartledge who was a large, bespectacled Yorkshireman who taught Chemistry in my day. Maybe they liked to swap jobs sometimes?

egg&chips · 25-09-2008, 23:05

"Charlie" Cartledge was athug and did teach chemistry. I remember he "tackled" Graeme Fowler (later of Lancs & England cc fame) during a staff v school football game. He did not seem to be exactly filled with remorse as GF was carried to a waiting ambulance...

sparkiediv · 26-09-2008, 13:21

i just left Moorhead and seriously over the past 12 weeks it's changed SO much!

Caveman · 28-10-2008, 00:24

Hi Folks

I left Moorhead in 1986 and i wish i was back there now, had some real laughs especially with Mr Bolton, he was a top teacher apart from him throwing the board duster at me and my mate Tony Howarth nearly every lesson for messin around.

piki · 07-11-2008, 21:20

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Originally Posted by PILKYBUSDRIVER

I also remember the poor lad Gary Robinson who got struck by lightening on the playing fields just on the plateau further up from the sandpit near the queens building.I also remember Mr McLaren's infamous peformance as boy george.

i were their that day not a nice day

vicky1 · 14-11-2008, 10:55

Moorhead having a reunion at Whittakers on Burnley rd on 28th Nov, for students who left between 1982-1984