Name

Role(s) photo

Report

1939

I. Baggs

- Scrapbook

C.T. Besant

Head

- Scrapbook

Peter A. Biggar

Metalwork

Transferred to Downer Grammar in the mid '50s

T. Davies

- Scrapbook

L. Fennel

- Scrapbook

J. Harman

- Scrapbook

J. O'Rouke

- Scrapbook

F. Ladds

Music

- Scrapbook

W. Silverwood

PE

- Harold Dummer ('44)

Mrs Wicks

- Scrapbook

1940s

There were 44 teachers on the roll (boys and girls schools) in 1940.

Mr Andrews 'Pop'

- Harold Dummer

Miss Antony

- Harold Dummer

Mr Carrol

I certainly remember Mr Carol. – Tom Davey ('50); John Hill ('48)

Howard Crawley

Geography and PE

Left in about ’56.  Regularly attends 54 Club meetings.
Naturally known as ‘Creepy’ and we were ‘worms’
Who remembers being made to run around the gym until exhausted? and also when he caned the whole class as the culprit wouldn’t own up.
They don’t make ‘em like that anymore! – William Dearing

Mr Crawley – about the only teacher whose lesson you daren’t mess about in… funnily enough he was my personal favourite. – Albert Weymouth ('57)

A cricket fan, he supported Sussex and, by writing letters to Lords, brought to their attention the Reverend David Sheppard (eventually England's Captain). - Allan Cox

Mr Daly

Mr Daly was my teacher he was a bald headed man and would not stand for bullying in the class if you did out use to come the boxing gloves and he would make you box what he thought would be a better boy than you.If you were a bad boy he use to get you to bend down and touch your toes and just before he hit you with the slipper he would shout out Justice then Wallop. – Raymond Griffin (‘53)

Mrs Fox

I was in Mrs Fox class. I used to do her shopping for her on Saturday morning earning myself two shillings and sixpence. - Harold Dummer ('44); John Hill ('48)

Gumpel or Gumbrell 'Gummy'

Tended the vegetable 'gardens' between the air-raid shelters. - Scrapbook

A.P. Hatchard 'Hatch'

French, Library (literature) '58

Cranium bore ‘the bump of knowledge’.

He could write with two hands at the same time!! – Brian Lens (‘52).
Attended 54 Club; died ’97. - Brian Speight ('58).

Humphries

- Thomas Davey ('49)

H.G.W. Jones 'Jonah'

Deputy head Maths/English '58

always wore a suit with a hanky tucked up the jacket sleeve. - Maxwell Allen ('61)

He seemed to snort rather than breathe.  His trouser turn-ups touched the ground at the heel.
Called-up to serve in navy on Dec 30th 1941 – Deputy Head from 1958 to 1972 when he retired. - Scrapbook.
He saw service in the boiler-room of a naval vessel and reported to pupils that all boiler-room staff were issued extra salt to mitigate the effects of profuse sweating. - Allan Cox.

R. Kendall

Geography '58

Had an imposing, if 'quiet', presence’.  A black sphere (representing planet Earth) hung above his desk from a chain – but I never saw it used.

He was a bit grim generally although he was always OK to me.  He had fits of anger.  I remember vividly how he threw a wooden blackboard rubber at a lad in the class called John Milway because the poor chap didn't know the answer to something! - Chris Knightley

Mr LLewelyn

- Scrapbook

Mr Maine

- Thomas Davey (‘49)

Mrs Markham

One morning on my way to school I had a sack full of books (collected for the Book Recovery Programme) that contained several copies of Health and Efficiency.   Me and my mates were huddled looking at the nude women contained therein, when a female voice boomed out "good morning Dummer" it was a teacher named Mrs. Markham, she saw what we were looking at, smiled and went on her way to school. - Harold Dummer ('45)

J.D. Marshall

- Terry Feuillade (‘50)

Mr Mortimore

- Graham Ward (‘52)

Readycliffe

- Scrapbook and Brian Lens

Mr Redding

Music

- Gerald Read (‘51)

Rees/Reece ‘Taffy the Boffin’

Science

- Scrapbook

Roberts

Music

“…excellent teacher and motivator” - Jim Tyrell (‘48)

Mrs Smith

Science

the only woman teacher at the time - Brian Lens

Thirsting ‘Big T’

- Scrapbook

W. Wood 'Willy Woodbine'

- Scrapbook

1950s

Mr Albury

- Albert Weymouth ('57)

x Aldous

'58

Barker

- Allan Cox

Cherry

Metalwork

I remember I hit a piece of perspex with a mallet on a sandbag in Mr cherry's metalwork lesson. bit's flew everywhere,one pice hit the blackboard next to his head.  He sent me to Wilcox out came the two foot metal rule.OUCH!!!! - Dave Wheeldon

Dennis Franklin

a Yorkshireman - Allan Cox
Dennis was also organist and choirmaster at St Lawrence's Church, Canons Park where I was a choirboy and greatly influenced my adolescence. - Maxwell Allen ('61)

J. Franklin

Music '58

- Brian Lens

J. Green

'58

Goodie

MR&MRS GOODIE used to ride to school on a black motorbike - all having a row in the classroom 58/59. – Stuart Crabb

G. Goodman

H. Gordon

Hinxman

Woodwork

He encouraged me to do wordwork but I only did it for a couple of years because I wanted to get on and make something - rather than continually practising making dovetail joints.  Carpentry is now my trade.

He left in '55 or '56 when he looked about 60 years of age - but then all teachers did when you were at school. - Allan Cox ('59)

C.G.H. Morgan 'Taffy'/'Pin-head'

Maths '58

He was a very keen that the kids should understand maths and not just be able to do it.  This was a very good trait in my opinion.  He was a Welsh chap and hence nicknamed Taffy. - Chris Knightley

Spent a third of the time teaching maths, a third of the time berating us for being useless and the remainder relating anecdotes from times when things were "so much better".   If he couldn't recall the name of something he would simply refer to it by the term "wass nim" ('what's its name'). - Colin Poyton ('65)

Glyn R. Morgan

Gym '58

Played trombone.  Paranoid about pupils damaging the polished wooden floor of the gym.

He was a keen disciplinarian, keen to 'cane' boys for having dirty i.e. not pure white) plimsoles.  If he was in a bad mood he'd make all the class undress, have a cold shower, get dressed and then repeat this one or more times. - Chris Knightley

F. Oliver

'58

- Scrapbook

Vic Parry

'58

- Scrapbook

Stan Parry

Woodwork '58

- Scrapbook

M. Philps

A.H. Roberts

Maths, Assistant Headmaster

His technique for teaching mathematics was fantastic.  Although I did the engineering course (practical acivities), for the last 6 weeks of my fifth form Mr Roberts taught me Calculus.  He managed to teach me the subject in 6 weeks - which was unheard of at the time.  When, in the 6th form I was again taught the subject - but by Morgan - I couldn't understand it.

Mr Roberts was a strict disciplinarian.  One day, following a little bit of a disruption in class, he decided to take one boy outside to cane him - but not infront of the class.  When he returned, another boy - and I remember his name - 'Barry Bennett', was smiling.  Mr Roberts asked him what he was laughing at and without thinking he answered "that is a nice cane you have there" ... "I'll show you how nice my cane is" came the inevitable repost.  That innocuous answer earned Barry three 'stripings'.

A.H. Roberts left in '56 or '57 to be Headmaster of a school in Finchley.

All the above were contributed by Allan Cox.

Mr Rose

Art

He taught Art… poor sod. – Albert Weymouth ('57)

F. Sell

'58

Mrs Smith

Mr Thomas

Maths

I used to live in Belmont Lane and I remember the girls nicking the football when it went over the dividing line in the playground. I also got the cane of Mr Thomas the maths teacher for talking, and had to go down to Mr Wilcox in Metalwork to pick a cane from his vast selection before returning upstairs to get wacked with it! Although I found Mr Wilcox strict I always found him fair. – Ray Ralph

E. Warburton

'58

- Scrapbook

Howard Williams

? '58

He attended the 60th Anniversary reunion

Les Wright

Wickerwork, RI? '58

- Scrapbook; transferred to Downer in mid '60s

1960s

K.W. Whiting 'fish-face'

Headmaster '58

Allen

Graham E. Baker

French, sport '58

Taught at Chandos ’57-’81. Wonderful dry sense of humour; rode to school on a Velocette/‘Ariel’, wore gauntlets and peaked-style crash helmet; often roamed the school in black track-suit bottoms.  Distributed french magazine: "Chez Nous".  Arranged french gal pen-pals for all the class.

His Gallic ‘tache’ was still evident in 1999 – but pure white.

Albert Barclay

English and Art

started in about '63, based in one of the Huts.
I liked him despite him being very pro-Tory.  I remember an English lesson where we had to review all the daily newspapers… he kept insisting that The Telegraph was the best and that it gave the most balanced view… oh and he hated hippies… drove a Triumph Vitesse and married one of the teachers from the girl's school. - John Collett ('71)

Leslie W. Budd 'Bummer'/'Wally’

General science '58

It is believed that Mr Budd had been a radio operator flying in a Boulton-Paul 'Defiant' during the war.

He claimed to have an '0'-gauge model railway track running round his home.  He brought a couple of beautifully detailed carriages, which he had made himself, into school for pupils to admire.

Although he was not believed to have been married, he was thought to be living with a "son".

His nickname may have derived from his unnerving penchant for standing at the entrance to the showers and patting boys on their bottoms as they passed him as they entered the tiled corridor. - Anon.

Although I had no direct experience, Mr Budd's proclivities were surrounded by innuendo and allegation.

He claimed to enjoy swimming under a line of boys with their legs apart, preferring to face upwards, and that narrowing his eyes (to reduce the ‘aperture’) improved his view!

He explained how to make a pin-hole camera, which two of us accomplished at home.  The following week he provided us with glass photographic plates about 2” by 2½” which we exposed using our primitive devices and then successfully developed.  Died late '80s. - Colin Poyton ('65)

Preferred 1st and 2nd year boys to older boys (say no more)… he ran a radio club at lunchtimes for 'first years' only… oh dear.

Walter Mitty character with an unlimited variety of special talents and claims to fame… could apparently hold his breath for 10 minutes and even claimed to have helped Marconi discover the radio… an amazing feat considering Marconi discovered 'radio' in 1895 in Italy - (but it must be true if you said so Sir).

Wore a green tracksuit and drove an old Hillman something. - John Collett ('73)

Burgess

Metalwork

- Nigel Woy

A. Carr

Woodwork

We sawed a point on a piece of wood to make a rudimentary boat; book-ends, a dovetail.  Once, during woodwork, a boy cut himself on a chisel – another pupil promptly fainted at the sight of blood.

Chandler

Woodwork

- Nigel Woy

Cyril Clough

Physics '58

- Scrapbook

E. W. Cornick

Music '58

… little legs … - Nigel Woy

A cheerful chappie.  Played the Compton Organ (rescued from the Odean, Wealdstone – latterly sold), during assembly.  Died about 1990.

Malcolm Crapp

Music

Sometimes accompanied the 'recorder group' on piano.

Started at Chandos in ’60.  Composed and arranged music for school productions. - Scrapbook

Peter Gordon 'Blue beard'

History and recorder group

Started at Chandos in ’59. Frenetic, board-writer.  Eventually resorted to ‘Gestetner’ed hand-outs (pink or pale blue colour – had a lovely smell of spirits).  Played flute and was probably Jewish (he missed 'assembly').  Became a School Inspector.

Brian Harrison

Art and Bandmaster '58

Played trumpet/cornet.

Brian Lee

History

very nervous with shakey hands, drove a black MGB with a brown soft top. - John Collett ('73)

Mr J Lowry

Art

He was a nice chap who, sadly, was killed in a road accident (in about '62 - I believe). - Chris Knightley ('66)

Keith G. Snell

PE '58

Mr Snell was my form teacher, and he was always telling us lads that his brother was the New Zealand running champ. I still don't know the truth. – Bill Sells

His idea of sporting development was to play the same group of 22 boys in class football each week while the other 8-10 or so were left to mess about with a ball on the side.  Athletics was mostly about going off for cross-country run, while the teachers hung around at the school. - Chris Knightley ('66)

A. Walsh

Geography '58

- Scrapbook

L. Webb

Tech drawing '58

Neat-and-tidy by trade and by nature.  Frequently wore a carnation in his lapel.

Cliff George Wilcox

Metalwork '58

He was a keen disciplinarian, rather too keen to 'cane' boys with a steel ruler for "forgetting your apron" or using a file the wrong way!  He was very aware of safety (great these days) and insisted that lads didn't wear a tie or have long hair in his classes in case either got caught in a turning lathe … very nasty.  We all had to make a poker using the furnace - very exciting. - Chris Knightley ('66)

We made a chisel and possibly a coat-hook in his class.

"Right round the bench" and "Up to the line and no further"… terrified me until I was 13.
… the smell of oily swarf in the workshop… had an assistant called 'Parker'. - John Collett

Vogler

Maths

- Nigel Woy

1970s

John Rumble

Acting Head '87

R. R. Bellion

Head '87

drove a yellow MGC GT - John Collett

Greenwood

Music – woodwind

Shorey

Maths (I think)

came to the school in about 1969 - probably mid-twenties at the time.  Based in one of the huts (Barclay in the other).  Started Guitar Club which included some girls from the girls school (radical stuff), they performed an astounding rendition of "Feelin Groovy" at one of the "Evening of Music" things that we all had to sit through and the parents were invited to.
Active Christian and probably still involved with the Church in Stanmore. - John Collett '73)

Leslie Tucker

Music '87

drove a white MK1 Cortina GT and had a large white gym shoe that he kept for wacking boys. - John Collett ('73)

Mr Tucker (music) used to grab a small piece of skin on your upper arm and twist and twist until you owned up or apologised for something.  Try doing that to kids today and see what happens. – Paul Sherreard

Mr Trigg

We used to take the register down to the secretary in turn every monday with all the half crowns in a tin.  He asked me two mondays on the trot,I refused,he hit me round the face,I threw the tin at him,half crowns went everywhere!!.next stop Mr Bellion for the cain,ouch again. – Dave Wheeldon

Alan Davter

Bought a purple track suit about the same time that Budd bought his green one. - John Collett ('73)

Taught at Aylward School during ‘60s – a popular teacher.  Married Maureen, 16 years his junior.

(D. Burston)

Parent Assoc.