Hardest School in Brighton

[Perry Milkins]

I think you will all find that Mr Tiggywinkles day nursery could run Newman Farrah, Westlain, Longhill and the rest without too much sweat. I will go as far as saying that there could have been blood on the Balfour Road when they faced up to a joint Farrah/Dotty Stinker mob in May 1978 ahd it not been for the intervention of Billy Atkins mum who arrived to take him to the dentist.

 

[The Spanish]

Blimey this old chestnut. I reckon it stands

Falmer
Deason
Longhill
Fawcett

for the places


7/1 bar, depending on your age.

 

[Storer68]

Stanley Deason/Marina High/East Brighton College of Media Arts - or whatever you wanna call it.

It used to be the hardest anyway, before it got closed down a few years back. I should know I went there for five long years!

what he said - home of all the brighton school age delinquents in the late seventies.

 

[Taybha]

Fawcett 1970-76 Some right orrible fuckers during my time there,though some have now mellowed into nutjobs,the scars of being unspotty in puss filled classrooms still haunt me now.

Heard a while ago that Winstanly the PE teacher passed away,anybody confirm that? was a top bloke.

 

[Lush]

Margaret Hardy was obviously the HARDEST.

Or Maggie Aggro, as it was known back then.

 

[Skaville]

From this weeks Observer

"Maria Colwell lived on the Whitehawk estate in Brighton, 15 minutes from the pier of this now thriving seaside city. Thirty-five years on the housing is modern and well maintained, there are far more well-kept gardens than those full of dog excrement and rubbish, there are government-funded community centres and a library, a good bus service and the council clears the area of abandoned cars regularly. But even today, many children there have never seen the sea. 'That is not an urban myth, it's perfectly true; we had quite a lot of children who were scared to go off the estate and certainly plenty had never stood on the beach,' said Gill Clough, the former headteacher of Whitehawk's only secondary school, which was closed in 2003.

'The case of estates like these is that the clean front doors hide very deprived interiors. There are entire generations of families who have never had a job. There is a lot of drug-taking, drinking, incest. It's one of these estates where a lot of grown men leave and you get middle-aged women hooking up with much younger men, which brings its own issues for families. Children would come to school on Monday mornings and weep - they were exposed to violence and abuse. I would say about 70 per cent of the children in my class would have quite serious issues and, of course, that was among those who came to school at all.'

 

[bright1064]

From this weeks Observer

"Maria Colwell lived on the Whitehawk estate in Brighton, 15 minutes from the pier of this now thriving seaside city. Thirty-five years on the housing is modern and well maintained, there are far more well-kept gardens than those full of dog excrement and rubbish, there are government-funded community centres and a library, a good bus service and the council clears the area of abandoned cars regularly. But even today, many children there have never seen the sea. 'That is not an urban myth, it's perfectly true; we had quite a lot of children who were scared to go off the estate and certainly plenty had never stood on the beach,' said Gill Clough, the former headteacher of Whitehawk's only secondary school, which was closed in 2003.

'The case of estates like these is that the clean front doors hide very deprived interiors. There are entire generations of families who have never had a job. There is a lot of drug-taking, drinking, incest. It's one of these estates where a lot of grown men leave and you get middle-aged women hooking up with much younger men, which brings its own issues for families. Children would come to school on Monday mornings and weep - they were exposed to violence and abuse. I would say about 70 per cent of the children in my class would have quite serious issues and, of course, that was among those who came to school at all.'

Is that what Gill Clough actually said? What I mean is, is that her quotation?

She was the head for part of the time I was there, and I can tell you now, she NEVER took one single class with any students!
She was paid a shed-load of money to sit on her arse and be a so called 'super-head'. She failed, she couldn't handle it, and skulked off to her 'normal' life away from Whitehawk.

I've lived there my entire life, and I find what she says about the place, frankly disgusting. Stuck-up, pompous f***ing bitch.

 

[getreal1]

i used to live in shitehawk so i do know that the only hard ppl were jay and tai but jay died...

That Kensett business was amazing. Nobody deserved to die like that but his mouth got him further into trouble than was wise. The family was painted whiter than white until the following month when the paper reported that his brother had been in trouble for assualting a policeman. Kensett was by all accounts an excellent sportsman although it sounds as though others in his family would have been less missed.

 

[bright1064]

That Kensett business was amazing. Nobody deserved to die like that but his mouth got him further into trouble than was wise. The family was painted whiter than white until the following month when the paper reported that his brother had been in trouble for assualting a policeman. Kensett was by all accounts an excellent sportsman although it sounds as though others in his family would have been less missed.

His 'mouth' was nothing to do with it! It was more to do with the fact that he was needlessly stabbed by some nutcase.

It's very easy to make comments from outside. But the truth is, his brother is a decent kid who had his life torn apart by the horrific death of his older brother. Maybe that would send you 'off the rails' if it were you?

 

[Skaville]

Is that what Gill Clough actually said? What I mean is, is that her quotation?

She was the head for part of the time I was there, and I can tell you now, she NEVER took one single class with any students!
She was paid a shed-load of money to sit on her arse and be a so called 'super-head'. She failed, she couldn't handle it, and skulked off to her 'normal' life away from Whitehawk.

I've lived there my entire life, and I find what she says about the place, frankly disgusting. Stuck-up, pompous f***ing bitch.

I went to Deason, was brought up on the outskirts of Whitehawk and saw some pretty f***ed up things and met some pretty f***ed up people, but that description of Whitehawk is still pretty alien to me.

 

[Skaville]

Is that what Gill Clough actually said? What I mean is, is that her quotation?

She was the head for part of the time I was there, and I can tell you now, she NEVER took one single class with any students!
She was paid a shed-load of money to sit on her arse and be a so called 'super-head'. She failed, she couldn't handle it, and skulked off to her 'normal' life away from Whitehawk.

I've lived there my entire life, and I find what she says about the place, frankly disgusting. Stuck-up, pompous f***ing bitch.

What's this bit about? Load of old bollocks.

"we had quite a lot of children who were scared to go off the estate and certainly plenty had never stood on the beach,' said Gill Clough, the former headteacher of Whitehawk's only secondary school, which was closed in 2003"

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

From this weeks Observer

"Maria Colwell lived on the Whitehawk estate in Brighton, 15 minutes from the pier of this now thriving seaside city. Thirty-five years on the housing is modern and well maintained, there are far more well-kept gardens than those full of dog excrement and rubbish, there are government-funded community centres and a library, a good bus service and the council clears the area of abandoned cars regularly. But even today, many children there have never seen the sea. 'That is not an urban myth, it's perfectly true; we had quite a lot of children who were scared to go off the estate and certainly plenty had never stood on the beach,' said Gill Clough, the former headteacher of Whitehawk's only secondary school, which was closed in 2003.

'The case of estates like these is that the clean front doors hide very deprived interiors. There are entire generations of families who have never had a job. There is a lot of drug-taking, drinking, incest. It's one of these estates where a lot of grown men leave and you get middle-aged women hooking up with much younger men, which brings its own issues for families. Children would come to school on Monday mornings and weep - they were exposed to violence and abuse. I would say about 70 per cent of the children in my class would have quite serious issues and, of course, that was among those who came to school at all.'

Maria Colwell didn't live in Whitehawk she lived just off Manor Hill , similiar to saying someone lived in Moulscoomb when they actually lived in Bevendean.

 

[bright1064]

I went to Deason, was brought up on the outskirts of Whitehawk and saw some pretty f***ed up things and met some pretty f***ed up people, but that description of Whitehawk is still pretty alien to me.

She was the head of a well-to-do private school. Then she came to Deason as a super-head for the money.

She is a toff that has no idea what the realities of the estate are. She only came in for a few hours a day and collected a pay cheque every month.

It's very easy to give Whitehawk a bad press, especially if, like her, you have been wrapped up in cotton wool your entire life!

 

[bright1064]

What's this bit about? Load of old bollocks.

"we had quite a lot of children who were scared to go off the estate and certainly plenty had never stood on the beach,' said Gill Clough, the former headteacher of Whitehawk's only secondary school, which was closed in 2003"

That's what I mean!!! What a stupid thing to say! She wasn't even on the estate long enough to say the things she said.

Bitch.

 

[csider]

Didn't know him, he might have been in year above me. The hardest
in the year was Simon Ferguson(undyed Blonde patch of hair) who was jailed for manslaughter for attacking somebody with a basball bat at the tip. Also Marcus Irvin was pretty tough.

S.F was a (large) nutter.........know a girl who has/was seeing him cpl of years back. think behaves these days!!!

His mate at Patchan sliced a mates in half at a school fight!!

 

[Nottseagull]

Patcham Fawcett 84-88
I always remember our History Teacher Mrs Dockerill, she would wear stockings and suspenders and sit on the table at the front of the class whilst teaching us. We could all see she was often not wearing knickers. I always wonder if she really was teasing us 13-16 year olds or she just did not have a clue. She was very horny. Her husband was a lucky guy. Or maybe she was a paedo women, It's just a question I will never find the answer to.

You will when the writ arrives.

 

[itszamora]

Downlands School, Hassocks. Now that really was the school of hard knocks. Unbelievably Algie also went there.

Word up - violence at Downlands on the front page of today's (wednesday's) Argus.

 

[Nottseagull]

Nobody has mentioned my old school yet, West Hove County Primary. It must have been hard - it was once featured on Crimewatch.

 

[SirDouglasLoft]

We annihilated Tideway in cricket last year, with myself taking 6 of the wickets

 

[The Grockle]

:thud:

Have you ever been to Moulscoombe or Whitehawk??

My friend lived in moulscoombe it's really not that bad....there's plenty worst places believe me!