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Reading through Roy C’s experiences by September 65 came around the Gym teacher was Mr Roberts who was an ex military PTI. Mr Gibbs played the piano accompaniment in morning assemblies and his class room was at the end of the first floor corridor next to the Art room. I was never taught by him...

Did you actually start at Cockshut in 66 or is that your current age ?

Funnily enough reading your comments on Mortice and Tenon and Dovetail joints you must have made the obligatory ‘ singles ‘ box for your 45 rpm records, I kept mine for a good few years, and the customary fruit bowl which was turned on the wood lathe. Happy days

Typical of predictive text the Head of Woodwork was Mayhew, and the other Woodwork teacher was Jones, who could be extremely sarcastic as I seem to remember. You mentioned the Forge and Casting in the workshops, I remember making a fireside Heath set which involved intricate forge work with a...

On a slightly more positive note does anyone remember the craft workshops?. A good percentage of the pupils were destined for the industry’s of the Midlands and the workshops ( particularly the metal ) were well equipped with lathes , milling machines etc in fact all the equipment to teach and...

Interesting comments in the last response,if you were a pupil of Cockshut Hill boys school in the 1960s you wouldn’t have considered that discipline was unduly excessive unless you were a regular offender. This was after all a secondary education school and obedience was expected there is no...

For those of us that attended Cockshut SMB during the Sixties when Morgan was teaching will all remember ‘ Sylvester ‘. Morgan wasn’t just a one off, I would never advocate that his administering of discipline or actions were right, but he like many of the others had endured the hardships of...

Did you have a younger brother Keith who would’ve started at Cockshut in 1965 ?

Definitely remember Melvyn Durant, also knew his brother Gary, I bought a set of Drums off Clive Tolley in 1967 for £10, these lads were two years above us at school.The deputy head John Wickstead or “ Conga “ as he was known, actually turned out to be really approachable when he wasn’t in...

There was also a Science teacher called Clarke who had had been seconded to another school for a while. The Metal workshops were amongst the best equipped in the country,and if you showed interest Mr Barnard would go out of his way to help you. When we started Mr Roberts an ex PTI was the Gym...

A couple of memorable events that happened during my time at school was during our second year an assembly being called and us being addressed by Bert Jolley the headmaster informing us that a lad from the first year Naeem Butt, had tragically died in a swimming accident at Green Lane swimming...

Hi I attended Cockshut between September 65 and January 70. Interested to see the teachers listed by Roy C earlier I can remember additional names like John Curtis ( English ) Higgot ( Mathematics ) a Young teacher by the name of Mr Jordan arrived in our second year and who taught French, Mr...