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Didn't realise there was so many of us from Moorhead on here so I thought i would start a thread off to share teacher stories and reminis lol! Already been a few teachers mentioned so we will see who else we can add to our own Moorhead Hall of Fame!

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Among my particular favourites were John Bolton {english** who sadly died a few years ago;he was massively enthusiastic and really brought the text alive.Also Bill Green and Tony Robinson [history] again both really got into their subject and also got special dispensation for me to go on a school trip to a Test match when it was strictly "boys only"!!! I think the told Mrs Jones it was educational because I was the team scorer or some other such flannel!

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LOL!! Mr. Green and Mr. Robinson they were good teachers, but you've got to admit they were easily led. The lads udsed to mention cricket on purpose so that we could miss half the lesson while they nattered lol!!

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i am at moorhead mow an it is crap

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Im in my last year at Moorhead, has improved no end in past 3 years

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Any of the old teachers still there that have already been mentioned in various threads smiffy Mr & MrsWalmsley, Mr Williamson, Mr. Green, Mr Robinson, Mr McHale, Mr McCaffrey??

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My days at Moorhead are so long ago that it wasn't even called Moorhead then and the teachers I had would have been long gone by the time you got there. It was all girls in those days and the male teachers always seemed to be cringeing with embarrassment over something or other. Mr. Mortimer (science - mainly chemistry) used to blush right round the back of his neck and ears.

I can still hear Mr. Duckworth (science again) saying those infamous words "Don't forget to put a rubber bung in it."

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I might be wrong then, i thought i'd heard/read somewere he used to teach in Accrington and lived up Ossy.

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I remember Mrs Ainsworth my first form tutor,Mr Cauldwell (Chucklebrother lookalike,get him talking about football and the lesson was out the window),Mr Williamson(art)permanently chewing gum,Mr Jordan (art),Mrs Heap(French teacher and from France)she was also my form techer and I had her in set 1,hated her.Mr mcHale(History),Mr Dixon(Maths),had a really great Chemistry teacher but can't remember his name,he was quite old with very thick glasses.Edna Skull(Physics)always chuckled at the subtlty of the name.Mrs Walmsley,Mr Walmsley(Larry Grayson specs),Mr Littler(hitler)Chemistry.Mr Omerod(nice guy RIP),Mr Clayton(history)Separate desks,lines for being late,lines for being early,lines for everything,then after school he used to jog home to where of all places but CLAYTON.

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I left in 1988 so I doubt it.

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:biggrin8: Somebody remembers well and Miss Parkinson with that Moggi Minor, when she was driving she looked through the steering wheel lol!!

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Not forgetting Mr Lowe and Mr Windle(PE) and the good old Iccy Van with everyone buting all the crisps,puffs,n wham bars.

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:rofl38: Oh the poor iccy van men i forgot about them, rocking their vns till everything fell out !!!!

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Mr.Green looked like Tosh off the Bill awell

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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.

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That was a little before my time i started Moorhead in '87 and left in '92

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You lucky girl,our year had the misfortune of being the first year of GCSE's.The teachers didnt have a clue and I remember looking at parts of my exam papers and the subjects hadn't even been studied.A total bleep.

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Some things never change then, half the teachers still didn't have a clue when it was time for my GCSE's PMSL!!!

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Hargreaves,Mercer,Peel and i think the other house was Lacey.I was in Hargreaves,we never lost a game of rugby in all the 5 years(even though i hated it)

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I was in Lacey which was a manky green top, Hargreaves was blue wasn't it, peel was yellow and Mercer was red. It was ace at swimming gala and down at Wilson's for sports day, think they were the only time you got any real banter between the houses!

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You're spot on.

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How on earth do you remember Gary Robinson Pilky? That was in 1980 in the summer. I was in the first year then (left in 1984) It was probably the most horrible day of my schooling. I actually saw it happen as I was in transit from the Cromwell building to the Queens building.
I remember Mr Bolton (RIP) Mrs Skull (RIP) Mr Green, Mr Simpkins, Mr Robinson, Mrs Heap, Mr and Mrs Edwards (French and Chemistry) Mr Cartiledge (Chemmy) Mr Harris and Mr McGrath (Physics) Mr Riley (Biology and great drummer) Mr Howarth (Biology) Mr and Mrs Walmsley (English) Mr Robbins and Mrs Riley (Maths) Miss Tomlinson and Mrs Roberts (PE) Mrs Jones (History and temporary headmistress, the school ran like clockwork when she was in charge) Mrs Stewart (Geography) Mr White (music) Mr Webb and Mr McCaffrey (RE) Miss Parkinson (French) Mrs Sandham (German) Mrs Fowler (Domestic Science) Mr Williamson and Mr Jordan (Art) Mr Morgan (Mallen, English) Mr Caudwell (Maths, and general token fanciable male teacher) He must have been young when he started, as I left 21 years ago this year and like most kids, I thought all adults were old.:D

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Out of that lot there's only Miss Tomlinson (PE) who rings a bell. Presuming she was the same Miss Tomlinson.

Mrs. Taylor also did PE. We had Mrs Riley (maths but couldn't do geometry) Mr Mortimer and Mr Duckworth (sciences) Miss Melody (geography) Mrs Moon (French) Mr Manley (history) and Miss Redmayne (RE). Golly gosh I can't remember any more! Maybe they'll come back to me.

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I also remember Mrs Taylor (PE) she retired at the end of my first year.:)

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Mr McHale, Mr Caudwell, Mr Williamson and Mr Jordan are all still there.........

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Miss Tomlinson was there when i was too, but she had an even more venomous partner in crime, Miss Blades!! I also remember that Geography teacher that looked like Deidre Barlow off Corrie, was she called Mrs Smith?

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Think the old chap who taught chemistry was called Mr Sims.I used to enjoy biology lessons with Mr Haworth;he used to wear the most fantastic floral print shirts and massive wide ties!

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What was that Physics teacher called with the shocking curly hair and glasses, think he left in '88??

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Think it was Mr Harris;scarily I think he is related to me in some convoluted third cousin twice removed type way!

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he he he I'd keep that one quiet Lindsay ;)

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It's a very very very distant relation! Didn't have any effect on my physics grades though;never did understand all that stuff ,but I did get a house point for wiring a plug correctly!

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And who remembers the very attractive Mr dyson/knight he always did the ruler thing when we were in sex education, the one where he flips the edge and it makes the noise of a penis going erect (well i'm sure that it would be the sound if ever there was one pmsl)

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Yeah lol and always made a point of saying "you boys should be good at this with all the practice you get" PMSL!!!

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Yeah pmsl he sure knows how to get a few laugh's out of a tricky subject.:D

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Anyone remember Mr. Greenhalgh the languages teacher that used to work weekends in The Bridge? I don't know who was more surprised him catching me underage drinking or me catching him working behind the bar :biggrin8: pmsl!!

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Good god Lettie, I remember all of them , what memories

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I think Mr McCaffrey is now at Hollins, he was my head of year for the first 3 years then I think it was Mrs Shaw

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Think that's Mr. Walmsley rabbit, that was his class room and yes he would have come flying out after you lol!!

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i used to go there and i hated it i ended up at holins high

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His were the best lessons whilst I was at Moorhead, absolute quality teacher.

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i remember moorhead and st chrisis hated each other (i went to st chrisis).

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Chemistry teacher Mr cartilage(or however you spell it)he was a good teacher and was identical to mr magoo.He once came on the stage in front of all the Cromwell building and said he could make us all disappear and then promptly took his glasses off,pmsl.The point he was trying to make was that someone had lost their glasses and not come to claim them.

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Ken Scott inspired me to take up a career in woodworking, I'm still at it 20 odd years later. The most inspiring teacher that I ever encountered was a guy that went by the name of Winky Barrel, a chemistry teacher. He taught me for a year and sadly died. I think that must have been around 1975, the guy had been a professor but an objector to the second war and so got shuffled down to the grammar school, passionate about his subject though

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I remember all those teachers mentioned earlier, cant believe Mr Williamson is still teaching art, his wife taught us French as well. He put down £100 on my desk in tenners to answer a question i quite clearly could not answer! Gave me E E in my report "little imagination" etc etc. Mr Robinson and Cricket and Italian Football, those were good days! Memories Memories. Mr McGraph looking at the cieling whilst talking to you...Mr Cauldwell taking the mick out of people. Mr Wells, and his knack of making you sing a nursery rhyme when you went into his classroom....Mrs Simms? Does anybody remember her? What was the female music teacher called who loved herself? I left in 84

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Blimey yes;female music teacher,blonde curly hair??Was it Barrett??

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I remember her. She went round with the belief that the sun shone out of her ar$e.

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I still see Robbo occaisionally at Old Trafford, watching Lancashire during the cricket season. He's got the life of Reilly.

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The music teacher was called Miss dickinson and then she married and is Mrs Regan.
Had to ring a few old school pals up for that info but feel better that i did!!

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Don't quote me but if we are on about the same Mrs Barrett as when I was there, she was a rather large lady with short dark hair and blonde streaks. She was a science teacher, can't remember which one Chemistry, Physics or Biology.

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I remember her. She seemed full of herself when we were at school, I met her many years later during the course of my work and she was actually rather nice..:) Looking at your profile Ross Red, I bet you were in the same year as me and Sparkologist.:D

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I actually heard that as well that she is really nice. Maybe I was a stuck up kid! Lettie, Sparkoligist I left in May or June 84.

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I love this site! I remember the whole ordeal with Gary Robinson getting struck by lightening. I was the girlfriend of Allan Tootle at the time (who I believe was Gary's step brother. ) Ahhhh first love....I will never ever forget the moment Mr. Webb (religious studies) and Mr. Lowe (p.e.) came running in to the assembly hall where we were all clustered and made to sing to calm us until the storm had passed. They were drenched and literally sobbing. They had tried to save the boy and could not.

My favorite teachers were Mrs. Poole (commerce) and my art teacher who I only remember as Angela (anyone know her last name?)....she had brilliant red hair....and I remember her, because she really seemed to care about her students. Anyone remember Mr. Sutcliffe? He was either my chemistry or math teacher (getting old - memory fading)....he once lifted me off the ground by my hair for playing catch with a tennis ball in the hallway. Terrible temper ! Mr. White was my music teacher - pompous little man he was....I wanted to play the trumpet, and he informed me that girls do not play the trumpet, and gave me a french horn instead. That lasted two weeks or so. Music was the first subject I dropped, (right before physics) ....funnily enough I am a musician and writer now. Anyone remember the scandal spreading across the school that Mr. White was having an affair with a student....? Can't remember her last name but her first name was Karen.
Ms. Tomlinson caught me smoking with a group of boys and we all got sent to Mr. Mcaffry. The boys all got the cane. I got a letter sent home to my mother. I don't know which was worse.

Tina
Canada

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Hi Tina;think the flame haired art teacher was Miss Parsons,Mr Sutcliffe taught maths and later left to become....a prison warder!

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Well done Lindsey I have been sat here all morning trying to think of her name and it was Miss Parsons.

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Wow your memories are far better than mine. I left in 1992 and had forgotten most of these names but they are all coming flooding back to me now :)

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I remember most of the teachers mentioned in this thread, I left in 86, all good memories, had lots of run ins with the teachers, Mrs Fowler pinned me up against the corridor for looking at my shoulder when she told me I had a chip on it, I thought one of my mates had put one there! Mr Green was a great teacher, had Mrs Jones for History, home work was always on time for her, she frightened the life out of me, Miss Watts wasn't she the domestic science teacher who was quite soft?

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Me too ;) !!

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Anyone remember Mrs Whitehead, she was the science teacher with short reddish hair. She was also the Devil in disguise. :dflam:

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That's right ! Thanks Lindsay. Prison warder would be the perfect job for Sutcliffe - after spending all those years practicing on his students!

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I think mr.clayton (history) could have joined him.

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Mr. Neville is/was a Magistrate they could all have had their own little business lol!

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Yeah lmao and mr.dyson-knight the comedian!:) /sex god

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Most certainly the latter mmmmmmm :wub:

:w00t: Does anybody remember Mr. Eccles and his fascination with girls blouses (that's all I'm saying, if you remember him you'll know what i mean :laugh8: )

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God i'd forgot him but remember now...............and yes I remember.

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Sex god? wasn't he about 4 foot tall ? heh

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Yeah but seen as I was only about 3ft at the time he looked tall, dark and handsome lol!!

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Anyone remember the name of the blonde haired english teacher, she was quite tall ( but as tinkerbelle said all teachers appeared tall when we were 3ft high!!! ) and had a slight lisp i think. I spotted her the other day but couldnt remember her name.

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Well i checked out their website....Moorheads that is!! LOL well poor Mr McHale he look old now n chuckle is wearing well...oh i had to laugh tis so funny ive worked out that at least 5 of the teachers are still there from when i left n 92.

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Dont ask Tinks about Mr Walmsley tho !! pmsl.... remember the ****** always having fags in his room n a bet some whiskey flask as well lol

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Yeah but I was too scared to mention it PMSL!!! I could feel yet another detention coming my way

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How gullible was Mr. Wells about the bladder infection :rofl38: Better not go into too much detail ;) !!!

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Pmsl just chocked on my brew at the memory mmmm now how did that puddle get there??? mmm seem to recall after that incident u won a season ticket to the loo :) pmsl

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We also left in May/June 1984 so you may well remember us...:D

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I must have missed this thread but oh what memories!! I left in 94 and my bro left in 93, Some of them names brought back fine memorie lol mr Greenhalgh, i got thrown out of french for asking if he was a sheep shagger lol... mr Watters, geography??? he was well sound..

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he he he I'm surprised Mr Greenhalgh threw you out of class you must have hit a raw nerve with him, his own language in class was enough to make anyone blush LMAO!!

I Never liked Mr Watters I got into trouble for nattering in class but then made it worse for myself by calling him a fat scouser !!

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lmao... i don't think he liked me too much, but i thought he was ok, although i do admit he was a fat scouser lol

I remember mr greenhalgh trying to be clever and calling me a w***ker in class, he said it in french much to the surprise of the french exchange student that was in the class lol it was ammusing. My mates used to dare me to get thrown out as soon as possible, i got it down to 15 seconds one day hehe..

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lol wingy..............I used to get thrown out of ''wiggy's'' mrs.chippendales class in the same amount of time lmao.

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mchale is my yr team leader and he is leavin at the end of the yr

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:confused: Hey I can't remember her name! I never had her for English I always had Mr. and Mrs Walmsley.

Maybe Slinky can help out with this, I'm sure she used to teach her ?

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Are you talking about Miss chapmen????? thats the only blonde haired English teacher I can think of.:confused:

Or there was mrs. Mann but she had dark hair though.

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I was wracking my brain earlier with accystanmac trying to think of the blonde english teacher but no I still can't remember her name but it reminded me of another, what was the little dark haired geography teacher called, the one that always seemed to be pregnant?

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omg tinks i can remember who you mean......................the one that waddled all over the shop?? god i cant remember her name now, she lived on a farm.

MRS.Ainsworth

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Was it mrs simpson????

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i go to moorhead!! im in year nine!

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:D That's her Slinky thankyou for putting me out of my misery lol I hate it when I can't remember names.

Next one, does anyone remember Miss Goss she taught maths at the height of the Bros era and us girls used to give her loads of stick because we all wanted to be called Mrs Goss preferably with a husband called Matt or Luke Goss though. Poor woman didn't know how to deal with it except for a 'We Are Not Amused' attitude lol :rolleyes: !

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AAAWW enjoy it Tommoman I'd be back there tomorrow if they'd have me :D

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Here is their website link to view if u have a nosey round it u can see Chuckle, Mr McHale n others there are 5 on the staff that i remember from when i was there see if u can spot them hehehehe v amusing LOL

http://www.moorhead.lancsngfl.ac.uk/index.htm

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:rofl38: Thanks for that accystanmac :biggrin8:

Ms Blades AKA - EVIL
Mr. Neild and Mrs McIntosh I tremember them but they never taught me
Mr Jordan - wonder if he's still wearing his track suit bottoms :w00t:
Mr Williamson - still looks like a 70's porn star
Chuckle - oh he never changes
Mr McHale - he is looking old I wouldn't have recognised him
Deidre Barlow - mmmm what can I say lovely woman :dry8:

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I have my uses lol told ya it'll be fun lol i ****ed myself at Mr McHale he has aged somewhat pmsl

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I have just looked at the link for the Moorhead website. OMG how things have changed. There are only 4 teachers that I remember from my time there.

Kevin Cauldwell. Known in my time as Smurf. Seems to have aquired the nom-de-plume "Chuckle" somewhere down the line; I can see why. I never had the pleasure of being taught by him.

Dave Nield. This fella had a very nasty streak at times. Some of the punishments he used to dish out were outlawed by the Geneva Convention. He used to help run the outdoor persuits and sunday walks to the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales etc.

Nick Williamson. He only taught me for whilst I was in the 3rd year. I agree about him looking like a 70's porn star. I'm sure he appears quite a few times in my collection of vid's. :huh8:
That mugshot of him must be a very old photo, because he looked like that in the early 80's. Either that or he bathes in Grecian 2000.

Barry Jordan. He taught me for my O' level art. We very quickly came to an understanding that I had enough talent to not work, and just turn up for the exam. After that he left me to my own devices and art lessons were a breeze.
:thumbsup: Big-up-respect to Barry Jordan coz I always had a tent and climbing equipment on permenant loan from him for my final two years at school. He took charge of the outdoor persuits when Fred Edwards, the chemistry teacher, who sadly died last year, left to go teaching at a school in Chorley.

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i know all those teachers!! all gay

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Just checked out the site, Mr Caudwell and Mr Nield haven't changed a bit, was shocked to see the photo of Mr McHale he used to be quite dishy, not now!