Blatchington Mill v Hove Park

[vulture]

P.C.C

a total shit heap

 

[Scotty Mac]

oakmeeds

 

[Dorset Seagull]

And "Tabby", "BO" Sainsbury, "Poxy" Baxter, "Jack" Liddell, "Willy" Pope, "Hitler", Ross;
Peter (BBC) Brackley from 1970 who's mum was the school secretary, "Not Andy Naylor" and me from 1972, Vince O'Rourke who ran the Stadium.

And that **** Austin Williamson from Manchester Grammar.

Nisi Spiritu Dei Nihil - school caps at the Stockport game anyone?

Ahhh happy days as that was my era as welll

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Ahhh happy days as that was my era as welll

Anyone recall Messrs Whone-Brown (chemistry), Allen (Physics - plus, er, Careers(!)), Thomas (Maths), Hitchman (Geography), Lawrence (English and gratuitous atheism), Denby (French), Griffiths (German)... never forgetting Ross (Latin). How they can get away with not doing languages in EC Britain in the 21st century is beyond me... But I'm sure that "Blatchington Mill" offers a full syllabus in TEXTing these days...

 

[The Oldman]

Hove County Grammar School for Boys.

may I add Ken Garland (History) Spike Jones (Music), Basher Bates (PT)

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

And "Tabby", "BO" Sainsbury, "Poxy" Baxter, "Jack" Liddell, "Willy" Pope, "Hitler", Ross;
Peter (BBC) Brackley from 1970 who's mum was the school secretary, "Not Andy Naylor" and me from 1972, Vince O'Rourke who ran the Stadium.

And that **** Austin Williamson from Manchester Grammar.

Nisi Spiritu Dei Nihil - school caps at the Stockport game anyone?

And Alan Clarke who used to play for Haywards heath and once thumped me because I was useless at the 400 yards, and "Horace" Cope and me from 1959 - 1962 and Steve Townsley who was my best friend in those days and who I hadn't seen for 45 years till he came over at the Albion dinner last year

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

...and Harry Barker (Woodwork and Extreme Moaning), Sooty Corbett (Physics & Being Ginger), Bert Bucket Playll (History and Speech Impediments) and Buddy Holly (God-bothering and Rolf Harris Lookalike).

Arrgghhh! One small corner of NSC has been inadvertently morphed into Friends Reunited. Noooooooo....

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Hove Park was fun we had your P.E teacher Ricketts wife she was a PE Teacher as well ..........though she was shagging a Physics teacher who's name escapes me.

My Dad took me out to an Hotel in the wilds of Mid Sussex to meet one of his old mate's one Sunday and Mrs Ricketts and lets call him not 'inclement' walked through the Lobby hand in hand I must have looked shocked but believe me not as shocked as them.

I got a Monday lunch time lecture on CONSEQUENCES !!! Circa 1984!!

 

[house your seagull]

 

[WATFORD zero]

Ahhh happy days as that was my era as welll

Chas Cope, Looby Jones, Ken Garland, Ned Land

 

[Mr Blobby]

I was at Blatching Mill from 1983-1986. Always interesting football games v the dregs from Hove Park!

I however had my arm broken in 2 places playing against Cardinal Newman, it was my first game for the school and the game was abandoned as they had to get an ambulance on the pitch to take me to hospital! We were winning 4-3 but as it was in the last few minutes the result stood!

Bas*ards!

 

[newhaven seagull 85]

Hove Park was fun we had your P.E teacher Ricketts wife she was a PE Teacher as well ..........though she was shagging a Physics teacher who's name escapes me.

My Dad took me out to an Hotel in the wilds of Mid Sussex to meet one of his old mate's one Sunday and Mrs Ricketts and lets call him not 'inclement' walked through the Lobby hand in hand I must have looked shocked but believe me not as shocked as them.

I got a Monday lunch time lecture on CONSEQUENCES !!! Circa 1984!!

i can picture him but bloody hell cant remember his name!

 

[User removed 4]

does anyone remember justin newton ay blatch mill ?

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Blimey this thread has dragged a lot of names up from the bottom of my memory.

Harry Barker, woodwork teacher extraordinaire. I remember spending a whole term on one drawing of a mortice and tenon joint. I still hadn't finished it when the next term started but I then worked out that if I mucked about Harry would make me stand at the back of the class - from where I could watch the football, as this was Wednesday afternoons. Come on Kent!

 

[tottenhamseagull]

Blatch Mill all the way!!! 1994-1999. Who remembers miss wilson? the really old R.E teacher??

 

[WATFORD zero]

Come on Kent!

I scored a hat trick for York against Kent

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

I scored a hat trick for York against Kent

I remember that - every one of them offside. I was watching from the back of the woodwork workshop.

 

[scooter1]

Blatch Mill all the way!!! 1994-1999. Who remembers miss wilson? the really old R.E teacher??

She was there when I was there, 85 to 88. And probably for a considerable time before that.....

 

[The Oldman]

Blimey this thread has dragged a lot of names up from the bottom of my memory.

Harry Barker, woodwork teacher extraordinaire. I remember spending a whole term on one drawing of a mortice and tenon joint. I still hadn't finished it when the next term started but I then worked out that if I mucked about Harry would make me stand at the back of the class - from where I could watch the football, as this was Wednesday afternoons. Come on Kent!

IIRC your first project was a ruler. Harry Barker snapped mine in half in front of everyone as it was so bad! Never got on with woodwork after that.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

IIRC your first project was a ruler. Harry Barker snapped mine in half in front of everyone as it was so bad! Never got on with woodwork after that.

And miscreants were obliged to join 'The Harriers', which entailed jogging endless miles after school around The Field (in the days when all schools had playing fields; now they just have fat kids).

And Mr Barker used to ride his moped right into the workshop. And he smoked his pipe while teaching. And while berating modern Britain for feeding kids all these free bangers and milk on the NHS. And he broke my ruler in front of the class as well, forbidding me to graduate to The Pencil Box (A 3-term project which probably got you a woodwork PhD.).

These days, he'd get disciplined by Ofsted for child cruelty and sent away for training in Student Goal-setting and Outcome centred Re-alignment, or some such
bollocks.

Kids today? They don't know they're....
(Hang on, isn't that what Harry used to say?)