Post by Les on Oct 9, 2017 4:08:14 GMT
Maidstone I remember it well:
That takes me back... Yes, Mr Page the French master was indeed called 'Slim'; but what about the others of the late 50'/early 60's.
'Killer' Kemp, my first form-master in U4B, 'Nunky' Stewart the PE master, Cutforth 'The Nutforth' with a slight speech impediment and bushes of hair each side, 'Nogger' Knight the woodwork master with a temper, 'Peg-leg' Pratt the Biology master, plus of course the headmaster of the time, William Arthur Claydon, called of course 'WAC' or 'WACKER', not that he would consider speaking to any of the boys except prefects unless he had to.
I only spoke to him once, on the day I left 9 Feb. 1962 as boys were expected to the day they left (and then he kept me waiting 20 mins after school ended) The boy with the weirdest name ever was PLCX, Patrick Lloyd Culbert Xavier who I heard of once more but didn't meet, when I was Chief Biomedical Scientist at Clatterbridge Hospital on the Wirral and he was a Consultant (possibly locum as he wasn't there for long) in Oncology, Clatterbridge being a Centre of Excellence in treating cancers of all types.
I had to leave work after 20 years on the Wirral at Clatterbridge and Arrowe Park Hospitals taking early retirement on health grounds after developing Addison's Disease (an autoimmune disorder) and now run a very successful web site (100,000 'hits' per year), providing information & non-clinical advice, for Addison's patients worldwide called Addison's Disease Network (ADNetwork) at www.addisons-network.co.uk