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Denby (1C). Braund (weird physics teacher and teacher of weird physics). A very odd French teacher who looked like an elderly Orson Welles with a goatee. Rusty Reynolds, the world's most ineffective manager of classroom discipline. Hotdog Hitchcock the geography man. That woodwork teacher wo...

He was a good class master, and let the bigger boys bring in LPs to play at lunch time, when we were spotty fledglings. That was how I first heard Black Sabbath. Brookes was quite unpatronizing about the hairy music taste.

Yep. See post above :thumbsup: (We can probably assume he's over the hill and far away, now. Thankfully.)

That was the b'stard. Feeble blustering little shit with a temper. Chalk chucker. My old classmate, BRO, not, I think, of the NSC parish but an Amex season ticket holder, riled Hill by pooh poohing the existence of 'the tabernacle'. He also upset the physics teacher by dismissing 'atoms' on the...

De Bello Gallico. "I'm not here to teach you facts. I'm here to teach you to think" As he slid down in his chair, talking, eyes closed, till all you could see was the top of his head. Never shouted. The class always silent. Visions of spears, fortifications and battle tactics in our minds...

Grade 3* taken 1 year early :thumbsup: *which would be an A* in today's milieu :lolol:

Which recollection do you contest? Ross or Williamson?

Yes, on reflection he was alright. Ross was the Latin God, though. Brilliant teacher.

There was a twat who taught RI (religious instruction - pompous old bollocks more like) who threw chalk. Can't remember his name. Jack was a notorious prick who, fortunately, didn't teach me. Thomas and Bennett taught me maths. Prick, and lazy bastard, respectively. One amusing recollection -...

I see. That all adds up :wink: Twineham.....lovely but very much out of the way. I seem to recall there being some sort of sandy hilly bit near there....

Interesting. I thought you were a bit older than you probably are. I was the first of the family to get to uni. At HGSB there were lots of boys who came in from the wilds of Sussex. Burgess Hill in particular. One, Neil Brand was in my class. He's now a famous curator of film music and had a TV...

So you also were in my middle brother's year. Although you also were presumably not in his class. If you were in the first eleven (footy_ you would have known him though.

The 11 plus was standard in 69 when I took it. We lived in Portslade. My middle brother was allowed to take the 11 plus in around 71 only after my parents kicked up a massive fuss. Most of the kids were shunted directly to Mile Oak. By 1974 when my youngest brother was 11 they were told he...

A wee nipper :wink: You would have been in my brother Graham's year. :thumbsup:

When did you leave? I left in 76 (after A levels).

It is. I was being silly when I said 'near by'. HGSB changed its name to Blatchington Mill in 79 merging with the two secondary moderns to become a comp. It apparently has no sixth form according to Wiki, now, but it also lists Jack Pizzy as an alumnus of Blatchington Mill rather than HGSB...

Hove Grammar School for Boys was located nearby. According to my memories of my school days. I hope the mural with Tabritt and other cane-wielding psychos is intact. Or burned to dust. One or the other. Fence.