Recent content by Hurfy1964

I recently found this pamphlet. It seems it was when the school was closing. It might well bring back memories to some of the alumni

I'm very pleased with your progress John, but if you stopped wagging and actually turned up you could have made Prime Minister! D A Hurford (form teacher's son) (I inherited the Alan and not the Herbert thankfully).

You can almost smell the HP Sauce!

I am so grateful and touched by those responses. Thanks so much to all concerned. I don't think I have any more photographs other than those already posted on here but if I do come across any, rest assured, I'll post them on here. Thanks again for the tremendous response! It is very much...

Brilliant, keep them coming. Any former pupils of Mr Hurford feel free to comment. I can take all the stick, I've got broad shoulders! He tried going by his middle name of Alan as much as possible. I can't understand the dislike of Herbert!

Cheers Aston Lad, they are brilliant and much appreciated. The G&S one with the newspaper is very much as I remember him, he wore that jacket frequently at home. So sad I lost him when I was only 13, I remember a stated ambition he had of taking me to the pub when I was old enough! I'm not on...

Thanks for the reply and photo. I'm delighted he fell into your "okay" category. I know he acted as best man in the mid 70's at Patrick Broomhall's wedding, a former UTS pupil, so he must have been held in high regard by some pupils. When UTS closed he became a head of department, Geography I...

That's him. Hands on knees.

This thread has gone quiet but apologies, I've only just discovered it. Though I never attended UTS, my late father seems to be getting a few mentions. Mr Hurford. I didn't know he was "borrowing" fags off the pupils. It did him no good, it was smoking that killed him. Mr Peter Clarke is still...