Sports teachers at school

April13th1970 said:
That's the one. Don't tend to recall too much about "Games" at school as the only time I excelled at sport was on the rifle range
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Morley arrived late in my time at Arnold. In fact, I don't recall ever having anything to do with him. As for shooting, it never floated my boat but there were a few I recall who were keen as mustard and competed for the school.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
As for shooting, it never floated my boat but there were a few I recall who were keen as mustard and competed for the school.
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got to be honest, I'd never really considered it but as I was crap at Rugby, Cricket & Hockey and hated Cross Country and discovered, wen I had to do it as part of the CCF, that I both enjoyed it and was good at it, so finally had an outet for my "sporting" talents. These days the only "shooting" I do is with a Digital SLR rather than rifle
 
AlternativeSeaside said:
Yep, smiler deffo did take some sport’s classes, he was my geography teacher and told me and mate we would never get our o levels vax we didn’t take our field work seriously, we did despite this 💪😂😂
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He was a runner Marsden of I remember rightly. Often seen watching the Pool in the 80s. Mr Ken Gorman is a regular if you remember him
 
Theoneandonly said:
You mean the Baines teacher who got a kid crippled as he was too lazy to use safety equipment or the one who was boinking a pupil? The Baines “memories” on here are either snooty or dubious.
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I’d completely forgotten about that accident until you mentioned it. After my time I think but I do now remember it being talked about.

I also seem to recall another pupil dying after an odd incident in the gym as well. Stubbed his toe and no one thought anymore about it but he died suddenly a short time later.
 
It wasn’t an accident, it was incompetence and years later I met his mom and told her what really happened. Who I really felt sorry for was Howard Clegg. Not really a pal of mine but a nice lad. His parents went out on New Year’s Eve crashed into a lamppost and were killed. Howard went to live with a grandparent. Also poor Graham Grimshaw who was picked on mercilessly by lazy teachers.
 
Our Sports teacher was married to the teacher who taught home ec and always used to have boxes of cakes from her classes for after football practise - always thought he had the perfect life until I found out about 20 years after school he left his wife to move in with his boyfriend 🙄
 
BFC87 said:
Kevin Hickey was my first Sports teacher at Joes Jailhouse when it was opposite the No.4 pub on Newton drive. Good bloke and a big boxing fan and coach. Apart from him I sincerely detested every ** second at that hell-hole.
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Kevin Hickey-
We are now talking about 1959/60 - He was boxing coach at a building somewhere near the old tram depot - off Lytham Road. I remember he was in the ring with several of us and teaching us how to jab - you let the arm go straight out and then just/twist/rotate it at the moment of impact. How did I remember that? I was only 17 or so then.
 
April13th1970 said:
Can't remember who my sports teachers were, just remember that I hated rugby, hated cricket and above all hated cross-country. Only time I enjoyed sport was when I got o the school rifle range
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I can remember them. Apart from Rugby - which was their be all and end all - they were crap at teaching sport. Unless you already knew how to play cricket and tennis they didn't want to know. The same for athletics.
 
Waddington said:
Kevin Hickey-
We are now talking about 1959/60 - He was boxing coach at a building somewhere near the old tram depot - off Lytham Road. I remember he was in the ring with several of us and teaching us how to jab - you let the arm go straight out and then just/twist/rotate it at the moment of impact. How did I remember that? I was only 17 or so then.
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Probably Blundell St boxing club, went a few times but kept getting flattened so I packed it in 🥊
 
BFC87 said:
Kevin Hickey was my first Sports teacher at Joes Jailhouse when it was opposite the No.4 pub on Newton drive. Good bloke and a big boxing fan and coach. Apart from him I sincerely detested every ** second at that hell-hole.
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I was at holy Jo’s jailhouse, left in 1957, Father Stan was rugby coach, decent bloke amongst all the other sadists there.
 
My Sports Teacher at LSA COFE in the late 1960s was Fred Wolstencroft, his son Nick was at Baines and was a very good centre forward in the BFSL Sunday League.
 
Mr Blake , @ Hodgson in late 80’s early 90’s . He was a great basketball ball player in his day!
Still involved in teaching now at Monty.
Great bloke still bump into him now, always asks about the Pool.
 

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1966_and_all_that said:
I can remember them. Apart from Rugby - which was their be all and end all - they were crap at teaching sport. Unless you already knew how to play cricket and tennis they didn't want to know. The same for athletics.
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As I mentioned later in this thread the only sports teacher I remember was Morley. other than that I just seemed to remember the teachers I liked . . . Conchie, Riding, Collins, McMahon, Rev Bell (he once put on my school report "Perky" so at the next parent's evening my mother asked him who "Pinky" was . . . i guess that's where my scintillating width comes from), Grimshaw and I think all the 13 year old boys had a bit of a crush on Miss/Mrs Jackson/Dalby/etc

On the CCF side I also have fond memoories of Jones, Poole and, again, Collins
 
April13th1970 said:
Can't remember who my sports teachers were, just remember that I hated rugby, hated cricket and above all hated cross-country. Only time I enjoyed sport was when I got o the school rifle range
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Had similar experience at my school in the South Lakes. All they cared about was Rugby, Cricket and Cross Country, and I was rubbish at all three at the time. The only football was inter house 5-a-side, and we also had a rifle range.
On cross country running in games sessions the teachers would run behind the stragglers at the back and use sticks off trees to tap the back of your legs to speed you up .... How times have changed. Strangely in adult life I took up running, joining various running clubs.
 
April13th1970 said:
As I mentioned later in this thread the only sports teacher I remember was Morley. other than that I just seemed to remember the teachers I liked . . . Conchie, Riding, Collins, McMahon, Rev Bell (he once put on my school report "Perky" so at the next parent's evening my mother asked him who "Pinky" was . . . i guess that's where my scintillating width comes from), Grimshaw and I think all the 13 year old boys had a bit of a crush on Miss/Mrs Jackson/Dalby/etc

On the CCF side I also have fond memoories of Jones, Poole and, again, Collins
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John Poole was the teacher I had most time for. He took me for two of my A levels. Jack Conchie was a decent bloke. I don't know the woman you're referring to.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
John Poole was the teacher I had most time for. He took me for two of my A levels. Jack Conchie was a decent bloke. I don't know the woman you're referring to.
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Had Big Jack as my form master for 2 years, great bloke

Also have recollections of "Cess" Poole driving a 4 tonner into Coniston Water during a CCF Weekend camp aftter he came back from the Church House pub

Jo Jackson/Dalby was probably after your time, had her for a year for biology. I think she found it uncomfortable teaching "reproduction" to a class of boys aged 12/13
 
April13th1970 said:
Had Big Jack as my form master for 2 years, great bloke

Also have recollections of "Cess" Poole driving a 4 tonner into Coniston Water during a CCF Weekend camp aftter he came back from the Church House pub

Jo Jackson/Dalby was probably after your time, had her for a year for biology. I think she found it uncomfortable teaching "reproduction" to a class of boys aged 12/13
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Yes, got her now. She probably arrived when I was in the upper 6th. I remember her being at the end of school piss up in the Winmarith. Jack Conchie was my form teacher in the 2nd year. He also took my Chemistry O level class. Morley I do remember but I had absolutely nothing to do with him. I gave up sport at the end of the fifth form and became school librarian. That involved Wednesday afternoons drinking tea with John Poole and Bernie Leather.

Edit. Head of Geography in my time was Evans.
 
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Wallo7619 said:
Mr Blake , @ Hodgson in late 80’s early 90’s . He was a great basketball ball player in his day!
Still involved in teaching now at Monty.
Great bloke still bump into him now, always asks about the Pool.
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Mr Blake was also at Hodgson's in the 70's, think he was a Notts County fan. Seen him at a few Blackpool games over the years, always spoke to him, last time I met him was in the chippy at Staining Road End about a year a go.
 
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1966_and_all_that said:
Yes, got her now. She probably arrived when I was in the upper 6th. I remember her being at the end of school piss up in the Winmarith. Jack Conchie was my form teacher in the 2nd year. He also took my Chemistry O level class. Morley I do remember but I had absolutely nothing to do with him. I gave up sport at the end of the fifth form and became school librarian. That involved a Wednesday afternoon drinking tea with John Poole and Bernie Leather.
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had Bernie as my 1st Year form teacher and for history until I dropped it. Remembered a couple of other teacher's names . . . Ford for French, Ashton for German, Parker (Mrs) for English, McMahon/Stru(e)le for Maths, Ward/Riding for Physics, Big Jack for Chemistry, Collins/Jackson/Collins for Biology, Jones for Latin (1st year only), can't remember who I had for Geography but we had a mutual hate/hate relationship
 
April13th1970 said:
had Bernie as my 1st Year form teacher and for history until I dropped it. Remembered a couple of other teacher's names . . . Ford for French, Ashton for German, Parker (Mrs) for English, McMahon/Stru(e)le for Maths, Ward/Riding for Physics, Big Jack for Chemistry, Collins/Jackson/Collins for Biology, Jones for Latin (1st year only), can't remember who I had for Geography but we had a mutual hate/hate relationship
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Yep, knew all of them....perhaps not Mrs Parker(?). Ford was a good teacher And Ashton was my form teacher 3rd-5th form. I had McMahon for maths O level. I remember him spending a lot of time chatting up one of the women teachers - a short blonde woman if I recall correctly.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
Yep, knew all of them....perhaps not Mrs Parker(?). Ford was a good teacher And Ashton was my form teacher 3rd-5th form. I had McMahon for maths O level. I remember him spending a lot of time chatting up one of the women teachers - a short blonde woman if I recall correctly.
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Mrs Parker was to the best of my recollection a middle aged lady with a blonde/silver bob hairstyle (though she may have only seemed middle aged to a 13-15 year old)

Ashton was the only teacher that sent me to see the Headmaster (Cochrane)

I remember a youngish short blonde teacher but never had her. I think she was seeing Ashcroft, the geography teacher with the red Escort painted to look like Starsky's Torino
 
April13th1970 said:
Mrs Parker was to the best of my recollection a middle aged lady with a blonde/silver bob hairstyle (though she may have only seemed middle aged to a 13-15 year old)

Ashton was the only teacher that sent me to see the Headmaster (Cochrane)

I remember a youngish short blonde teacher but never had her. I think she was seeing Ashcroft, the geography teacher with the red Escort painted to look like Starsky's Torino
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Your hated geography teacher wasn't Evans was it - head of Geography?
 
1966_and_all_that said:
John Poole was the teacher I had most time for. He took me for two of my A levels. Jack Conchie was a decent bloke. I don't know the woman you're referring to.
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Yep , Jack Conchie was a decent bloke who tried without much success to drum Physics into me ( double Physics was probably the lesson I detested most) . He was also an all round sportsman who played rugby for Fylde and cricket for St Annes. For a laugh 2 of us went to Stanley Park to watch him play for St Annes against Blackpool in the Northern League with the intention of barracking him but of course we chickened out.
I played cricket and hockey for the school but other than a few words from Fred Liston ( hockey) any 'coaching' tended to come from the captain and vice captain.
The teachers at Arnold were strict certainly but I can only recall one unpleasant incident in my time there ( 59 to 66)
 
At Claremont Juniors up to 1954 the 3 teachers who oversaw football were Mr Ward, Head Teacher, Mr Paley and Mr Chatterton, who would bellow "Come on Claremont" at our field on Claremont Park. We got to the Hampson Shield final in '54 at Hawes Side Lane, a year that Bloomfield Road was unavailable. Lost 2-1 to Norbreck Juniors. Alan Taylor, later to play in goal with great distinction for 'Pool played centre half. Is the Hampson Shield still going? Later at BGS, my sport went downhill as they refused point blank to have anything to do with football and shoehorned us into Rugby - Union not League which was the great Satan. I remember a lad called Haslam who could kick great distances from the ground. The Gazette ran a feature on him and he obtained a scholarship to the USA to play American Football. Hope he did well. Ken Topping who taught History tried to instill some rugby in me to no avail. For PE we all had the above mentioned Derek Quinlan. He was a creepy sod and loved to give boys the slipper down in the basement. Endured rather than enjoyed BGS
 
The warzone that was Knowle High from 84-89.

Dave Durie for a couple of years.
Tony Green did the odd cover, but it was mostly maths.

Steve (I think)Bamber who was very good and would scrap with the kids when it kicked off.

Tim Lord, probably less sporty than Bamber.

The teachers needed quite a lot about them as the level of violence and dreadful behaviour was huge.

You're oblivious to it when you're in it; but looking back is was horrific.

I was lucky, relatively clever, got the better teachers and avoided being involved in the most nasty stuff; but it was never far away.
 
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TSSeasider said:
The warzone that was Knowle High from 84-89.

Dave Durie for a couple of years.
Tony Green did the odd cover, but it was mostly maths.

Steve (I think)Bamber who was very good and would scrap with the kids when it kicked off.

Tim Lord, probably less sporty than Bamber.

The teachers needed quite a lot about them as the level of violence and dreadful behaviour was huge.

You're oblivious to it when you're in it; but looking back is was horrific.

I was lucky, relatively clever, got the better testers she avoided being involved in the most nasty stuff; but it was never far away.
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I did a supply date there in the academic year before you joined.
 
Mexboroseasider said:
I’d completely forgotten about that accident until you mentioned it. After my time I think but I do now remember it being talked about.

I also seem to recall another pupil dying after an odd incident in the gym as well. Stubbed his toe and no one thought anymore about it but he died suddenly a short time later.
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It was total accident and was a girl in her first year at Baines. Stubbed her toe which led to blood clot. Female PE teacher could not have known, just like my brother could not have known when he died on a plane after blood clot formed whilst on holiday in Lanzarote.
 
Mine at Longridge High was a loathsome character. During the Lancashire Cup final at Deepdale, me playing RB, he spent all of the first half calling me 'Bevvit' - who was another kid in my class that never played football in his life. 4-0 down at half time.

We subbed one of our strikers and the new kid scored twice within 20 mins, 4-2, only for the ** to take him off soon after to give another lad a run out.

I'm 50 now and still have night terrors about it all.
 
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