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Have you been in the new building? I went to have a nosey on an open day thing last year, weird how the new bit suddenly turns into cromwell building, remember the dinner hut as well?

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Oh yeah i remember that getting my soup & roll lol altho it did get demolished before my year 9 started & they built a new one within the home economics block.:rolleyes:

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WOW! The soup hut! I'd forgot about that place!! :)

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And the never ending queue, with the dinner ladies giving out tickets so that you didn`t push in! The chicken pie was good but the coke always made me giddy (giddier?)

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We all cant wait to leave school yet the majority of us wish we could have those days again sad though it sounds. Two of my nieces attend and those teachers there that where mine and my sisters enjoyed "dropping" us in it especially me oops.

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Yeah, that final day you leave the school doors, it kind of hits you, that maybe it wasn`t such a bad place after all.. Do your nieces enjoy it?

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i went to moorhead it was well **** lol only thing i liked is p.e thats it

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Aaaah Miss Watts. The Domestic Science teacher..... She was such a softie and always fell for a sob story. Me and my mate must have got out of cooking most weeks. We used to tell her that as our parents were divorced, we couldn't afford to buy the ingredients. Had her in tears a few times... I don't know how I ever came away with an O level in that subject..:D

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:D Sure Miss Watts didnt do the exam for you Lettie. :p

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havent lived in accy for years. is the school any rougher than 93 when i left or is it the same. is the school basketball team just as good. we used to kick arse.

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Anyone on here leave moorhead in 99

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oh the memories!! and the coincidence - i'm goin there for my nephews parent evening 2nite!! so i hope to see them there

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do you remember mr littler the hells angel biker biography teacher?
great teacher all said. also spider man the r.e. teacher (mr webb)
or am i going back a little too far for you all now

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just another quick one. My Daughter is in the last year now at Moorhead just about to take her exams she has a teacher who remembers me Mr Neild. I remember him well! He once called my work a mock up with a capitol C. Thanks great mate really did me good

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:not_ripe: they were top teachers apart from mr williamson pullin ya ears

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:D HA our year tortured poor hitler littler i think he had a break down dint he?

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:eek: I WAS IN THAT YEAR TOO
VEZ AND CATHERINE VICKI AND ALL THE REST OF THE CREW

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MY DAD WAS AT THE GRAMMER IN 1976

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:confused: ARE THEY RELATED TO KERRY,GAYNOR AND TRACEY NEWSON?

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I think that was might have had something to do with a certain pupil setting light to the bunsen burner taps everytime he was in his class. :rofl38:

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yeh i remember Mr Webb how could i forget the unforgiving soul who gave the whole class detention for a few idiots peeing about:(

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Called Wayne W i was fortunate to be in his class for entertainments lmao:D

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does anyone remember Mr Garstan (don't know how its spelt but pronounced like that). he got knocked over by a students mum.

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I remember mr garstang he used to take me for gcse PE. He only liked you if you were good at it !! and female

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i didn't have mr garstang, my PE teacher was mr fox. i heard that in garstang lesson if you didn't have your kit then during register you'd have to say something like- yes sir no kit sir. or if you had a note you'd say- yes sir note sir. what a weirdo?

by the way who was your personal tutor? mine was Mrs parkinson. her initials are M.P. so my class was called Members of Parliament (MP)

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Mr Fox was my head of year for five years

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Yeah he took over your year when we left.

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Mr Green was my head of year for the last two years and Mr McCaffrey for the first 3 years.

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Looking over the posts makes me wonder if it has really changed that much since I left in '86?

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did anyone have Mr caldwell (geography), he loved showing a video of him at a football match (recorded it off the TV).

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He was my form tutor in year 3. He was a sound little guy and has my niece in his class. :o All those tales he has about me and my sister. :eek:

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I remember Mr McCaffrey, was he RE teacher?

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Yes he was RE Teacher, he was a nice enough bloke, last I heard he was teaching at Hollins.

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Don`t think it has changed that much since `86 spuggie! just more wrinkles on the faces lol

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And less hair. Maybe I am just a sado but I actually miss the place dispite hating it at the time. :(

Dont see anyone from my time there sadly even when visiting Accy.

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I left in 1986 too, and hardly see anyone, i think they must have been abducted by aliens lol! Or were so traumatised they left Accy for good.????....

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Proberly a bit of both or scattered to the 4 winds and never heard of again.:eek:

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To be honest im soo glad i left & wouldnt want to go back - not even for our year renunion im still in touch with friends from there, the rest made my life a misery:(

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At least you are still in touch with some of them AM. Me being up here makes it nigh on impossible. :(

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Not even for one day if I was to tell Mr Walmsley to 'go forth and multiply' again ;) :D

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Mr Omerod was a good teacher. he taught maths. his wife was also my teacher at primary school. she was also a very teacher.

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Aww spuggie so you would go back to school then:D

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PMSL!!!! well as long as it lasts longer than the 1st time lol:D

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Hell yes life was so easy and carefree then. Now its work bills and grey hair. :D

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mr omerod was my form teacher for the last 2 years i was at moorehead he was a really good man

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what a fantastic school i was there from 1991-96 well it was actually 93-96,cromwell girls loos is where you would find 6 girls in 1 loo all sharing 1 fag,funny there was so many toilets and 6 girls in 1 all standing in a position that made it look like there was just 1 in the loo from the outside just incase mrs blades came in,she never did anything anyway

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who remember SMT and the little card you have to take to the office to call them out?

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Mrs McIntosh was my form tutor if anyone remembers her?

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Mrs McIntosh is still there.

By the way from Sept 2006 the school will be Accrington Moorhead Sports College:Banane25:

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i remember mcintosh, she only taught me one year maths

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lol, very powsh :D

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my daughter attended moorhead a few years ago . maybe one of u out there will remember her . her name is saxonrose law . she still thinks it was the best school she attended .

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i left moorhead in 2004 it was a load og ****e lol excuse my frence

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Hmmm, I can tell you didn't like lessons :confused:

'i' should be 'I' when at the start of a sentence, it's 'of' not 'og' and your frence (it's actually 'french') is excused. ;) :D

You also forgot your full stop.

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Well I left in 2000 and then returned to do some voluntary work as part of my degree in 2005. I would like to return again sometime soon if they'll have me. How different is it when you're on the other side (teacher's).

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'i' should be 'I' whenever it is used on it's own :rolleyes:

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I know ;) Look through my old posts you'll see I do most of the time :D

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Well at least you can spell 'the' :D

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I am fascinated reading this thread. But it is so long I haven't managed to plough through it all yet.

I always wondered what happened there since I left. I remember visiting back home quite a few years back now and being surprised to find that it had gone "co-ed". And there were male teachers there even when it was still an all girls?

Wow! They were mostly a lot of old maids in my day. Some of them were very kind and sweet, but there were quite a few harridans, too.

I remember in particular the history teacher who looked like a horse and acted like a dragon - blowed if I can remember her name. Obviously a Freudian slip. The only exception was if you happened to be good at her subject, and that made you one of her favourites. Needless to say, I hated it. I never was good with numbers. And remembering dates was a lost cause. Nowadays they teach it much more sensibly - after all, it's more about the people who made the history than exactly when they made it.

Tricia

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when did moorhead change from being an all girls school my nan and her sisters went when it was an al girls school

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Accy Grammar(the now demolished Queens building) joined up with Accy High school(Cromwell building) for my last year at the grammar school,which was 1975.We were still taught in our respective buildings with no mixed classes as our hormones were running riot.Though i think the years below us may have crossed the field to each others buildings for classes.It became Moorhead High School in 75.I'm not sure but that may have been the time they abolished the eleven plus exam.:engsmil: :engsmil: :engsmil:

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So am i... is ya a student?

alec

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Wow what a great thread - been away from Accy now for 18 years though I get back about 4 times a year (always seem to bump into Tony Robbo though!).

Remember one of the highlights being a visit to Belgium (Blanckenberge???) etc - top few days playing not very good football against much much better teams who we just resorted to kicking! Was looking at some piccies from the trip just the other day!

Left in 1984 btw!

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I left in 1999 tinks favorite (Mr McHale) was still there lol.

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I Left in 84 . Now living in Koh Phangan (Thailand).
Best thing was the annual snow ball fight with St. Crissys, will never forget them.

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I was there when Ralph Bailey was head(r.i.p.) and Bill Green and Tony Robinson ran our footy team which achieved great things. Who remembers Mr Teale who took rugby amongst one of his subjects (proper hard nut he was). French teacher Mrs Shaw who when pronouncing most words in French would drown anyone within 6 feet. Ma Rushton(biology), Mr Walmesley (eng lit) Mr Dennison (music) and there was an old guy who took maths with the biggest slide rule in the world which he wasn't too shy about giving anyone a whack with now and again, Jock something or other springs to mind. Happy Days......the summer of '76, what a year that was.

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Didn't Miss Tomlinson and Ma Roberts have a bit of a thing :Banane20:

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Yeah i remember old "winky" a bit hard of hearing and his sight wasn't up to much......did he get some stick when he took our classes.

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Jim Bowen taught at Hyndburn Park and was a 'harsh taskmaster' (from one who was taught by him)
Only 'Willow' has mentioned a few teachers names I recognise.
I was at Moorhead from 1953 to 1958 in the same forms as Kathleen Jones. Her role model was history teacher Miss Scotney.

Some interesting facts about that time :-
There was just the Cromwell building
All girls and NO MALE TEACHERS ALLOWED!
The head was MISS Mabel Horne (a 6' tall streak of misery who had a degree in French.)
The only man allowed on the premises was the elderly janitor.
If workmen were needed for property repairs on site -a large portion of the school was cordoned of and declared out of bounds. Fear of contact with the male gender pervaded all school life.
An interesting anecdote about Mrs Jones - did you know that she was excused PE and Games because she had had her little toes surgically removed. I always envied that because I hated Hockey - on that field wearing just a blouse and navy blue knickers in all weathers wasnt fun.I used to wangle it so that I was goalie for the best side so I spent most of the time hiding behind the goalpost out of the wind.
The naming of forms was like something from the novel 'What Katy Did'
eg 1st year =III (third)
2nd year= lower IV
3rd year= IV (fourth)
4th year- lower V -etc
suffixed by the surname initial of the form teacher I started there in IIIP (Mrs Pape)
I cant say I enjoyed the strict regime that ruled - always walk (never run),and always keep to the left, in corridors. Always wear your navy beret with badge when journeying to and from school (despite heatwaves) - to name but a couple of the instances of how we were strictly controlled and regimented. Hated it- I left as soon as I could- missed out on higher education as a result.

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ah kathleen jones, how we all hated her :D

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i think that you may have been in the same year as my aunt, norma butterworth,does the name ring a bell?

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*i think that you may have been in the same year as my aunt, norma butterworth,does the name ring a bell?*

Sorry - no - there were 3 forms of about 35 pupils for each year's intake. I did get to know some in the other 2 forms but I dont remember her. We have been having reuinions every 5 years during the past 15 yrs but numbers attending have been dwindling due to deaths and ill health. One is due this year but might not happen. I dont keep in contact with any of them in between times.

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I was at Moorhead from 84 to 89- Susan Gordon (Flash) at the time now Susan Jones.
Anyone there from the same time? Remember me?
TTFN

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Trying to contact Donna Grant who lived in Huncoat during '80s. Any help would be appreciated. I think her Dad was called David and had a carpet machinery business in GH.
[email protected]
Thanks
Dale, Brisbane,QLD

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You must have been in the same year as myself or the one below,the only one i don't remember is Bill Green.

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Are there photos on their website . Did not see those.I would to see what the teachers look like now i left in 1989.

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I agree. She offered to take me in whilst i was doing my GCSE's. I had left accy just before my exams had started for personal reasons and she said i could live with her for a while. Lovely lovely lady.

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If anyone has any contact details for Kathleen Jones or ideas about how I might get in touch please let me know I would love to drop her a line and let her know how I am doing.
Thanks in anticipation

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When I last saw Kathleen at the reuinion 5 years ago I remember she was 'something big' in the Soroptomists Society locally. -Other than that -sorry can't be of help

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thanks for that i have actually managed to find an address from that much appreciated:purpleban

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I remember Mr Duckworth and Mr Reeves (wasn't he Rev Duckworth) -still have all the old magazines 1961 to 1968!!!

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Bill Green was (still is) of short stature taught History i think and had a tash. Looked a bit like "Tosh" in the Bill on TV if you ever watched it. Him and Tony RObinson ran the football team in our year which included John Kay(goalkeeper) Andrew Bracewell, Dean Halliwell (fit as owt sister) Paul Delaney, Ingo Dewsnap, Kevin Pickering, Jeff Wolstenholme(midfield wizard) Glen Fox, Frank Walmesley, Paul Beck/Walmesley(played for Accy Stanley), to name but a few. OH sorry and little ole me on the wing Pete Johnson (Johnny as it was then).

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greenman you were the year below me.I remember some of the lads you mentioned including yourself.

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[ OH sorry and little ole me on the wing Pete Johnson (Johnny as it was then).[/quote]
Good lord Mr Johnson, I remember you and your mucker Pete Stephens from St Nicholas (and St Andrews?). You were something of an accomplished warbler too as I recall

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[ OH sorry and little ole me on the wing Pete Johnson (Johnny as it was then).[/quote]
Good lord Mr Johnson, I remember you and your mucker Pete Stephens from St Nicholas (and St Andrews?). You were something of an accomplished warbler too as I recall, at least Messrs Chew and Adcroft thought so.

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Were you there when it opened?? St Nicks that is??

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Ah a youngster eh?/ Was Fred still there in your time?

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stumbled across this one

Mr Mchale

Remember in one history lesson, some asian kid was tapping his pen in front of Mchale when he was talking. After a while he lost his temper and grabbed his exercise book and launched it across the room in a fit of anger cos the kid kept tapping his pen. Poor lad.

Mr. Greenhalgh

Was he the german teacher who was kinda cool and not your normal teacher

What was the old strict guy who taught history - not mchale or green - but gave a detention in my 2nd lesson!

Mr Green

Still makes me LOL when he called my mate 'nitball' in class. Then my mate threatened to sue him.

Mrs Walmsley

She had an obsession with giving me conkers

Mr Law

PE teacher - but was he the red hed one or the balding one with a tash?

Mr Mooney

Maths teacher who gave me detention just for not turning up for 5 minutes after school.

What was the name of the biggish science teacher with blond hair?

Miss Cruise (I think)

Blond teacher who all the lads fancied and taught music. We used to joke that her and Mr White were getting it on.

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I was at Moorhead from about 1979 to 1984. Anybody remember Christopher Seymour?

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Who are you letsdo1?

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What was the old strict guy who taught history - not mchale or green - but gave a detention in my 2nd lesson!

Mr Clayton - wasn't as old as everyone thought - he gave me millions of detentions

Mr Law

PE teacher - but was he the red hed one or the balding one with a tash?

Mr Law was the balding one - Keith Windle was the other one.

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i left Moorhead Last Year, There was a History Teacher who I cant remember he name of. She was about mid 30's and had short Brown hair.
Anyone help???:)

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Have you recently had a bang on the head?

If you only left last year...:confused::confused::confused:

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Must have done I just cant remember her name:mad:

Its not just me, My mate cany remember either?

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Was it Miss Humble????:Banane54:

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i still go to Moorhead now it isn't half annoying :s_lol:

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My sister used to teach at Moorhead in the 70s. I think she was there when it was still the girls' high school, but I'm not sure.

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It changed in 1975 Willow, my second year. I was at the Grammar School 74 - 79.