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Mrs Barrett was the Biology teacher Mrs Marsh for German Mrs French for Art

Rusty got us to do an essay ‘why Sheffield United will win the European Cup in 1982’. I seem to recall my plan involved them signing a host of Dutch players, sadly for them it was not to be ….

A few others I could think of: Denby - history Wellard - woodwork Willy Pope - English Peggy Braund - physics, and his famous bubble car!

Chrone (Krohn?) absolutely recognised talent when he saw it. He picked me for the school cricket team and I never looked back!

Agreed. Major RHJC Ross. He pushed his subject such that it became the one you focused on above all others. Explains my grade A taken 1 year early too.

I recalled B Mill was a merger of HCGSB, the Nevill and the Knoll. I was there during the chaotic years. Hove Park was the old Grammar school for girls, not sure if it merged with anyone or not but assume it must have done. I used to play tennis there on the grass courts, I imagine they have...

Blatchington Mill definitely did have a 6th form then, either that or I just imagined those 2 years!

Maybe that’s another mural to the one I’m thinking of on the stairs by the main entrance to the old Grammar school building, which was definitely painted over in the 80s.

It definitely looks like the old Nevill buildings to me. They always looked a bit like an Eastern European architect’s dream to me, the Hove Grammar buildings were a much nicer design from a previous era. I was there at the time it merged to become Blatchington Mill. The buildings were...