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replied on: 3/24/2005 9:14:20 PM I seem to remember that Mr. Dickie had a wife who was french teacher in my time at the Grammar? Noone seems to have remembered Jack Perry the Glasgow English teacher - always threatening to take off his kid gloves! Also there was Angus Todd the little, quiet and somehow totally frightening Chemistry teacher. Physics was 'Colonel Blink' not Mr. What's his name! |
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replied on: 3/24/2005 9:21:51 PM I remember Angus Todd-he was there quite some time-good to have memory jolted. Mr Dickie's wife arrived mid sixties I think. How's this for memory-Mr Dickie had a nephew called Paul Crevoisier-he lived in Paris-he used to attend lessonat Heanor Grammar for a couple of weeks each year-we were encouraged to write to him to improve his English. |
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replied on: 3/25/2005 7:44:51 AM I remember Jock Perry........didn't like Derby County supporters. I also remember Mr Dickies desk being Hi jacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Brown Shoes! |
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replied on: 4/10/2005 7:02:32 AM For those who knew him, I have heard that Mr Jerome, long-serving Heanor Grammar School teacher died yesterday. His funeral date has not yet been arranged. |
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replied on: 4/26/2005 5:02:48 PM MR JEROME's funeral took place at Mansfield Crematorium on Friday 22 April 2005 and was attended by family,friends, ex collegues and ex pupils of H. G. S. Every seat was taken and many were standing. Old teachers who attended included Mr G. Stone(headmaster), Mr Sid Bailey and Mr Roger Davey. The funeral showed great respect for a long serving and popular school master. |
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replied on: 8/13/2005 11:10:37 PM Ripley and Heanor News Friday dec 21st 1917 "Tuesday being the day for breaking up for the Christmas vacation at Heanor Secondary School, the occasion was made very interesting by the presentation of volumes of Kipling's works by the headmaster, Mr R. Stoddard B.Sc.,to Misses Marsden, Carr and Garside on their leaving the school". Doesn't say wether these Misses were pupils or teachers??? |
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replied on: 9/17/2005 2:35:50 PM The death occured of OLIVE MABEL HYNDMAN 3rd Sept 2005 aged 88. Funeral took place at Macclesfield Crematorium 13 Sept 2005. Miss Hyndman originated from Cromford and was Senior Mistress at H.G.S. and then principle lecturer at S.E. Derbyshire College. |
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replied on: 9/18/2005 3:53:26 PM Taken from the Society's Newsletters, numbers 111-112, December, 1984 and January, 1985 and originally contributed by Mr. P. Eggleshaw. The first mention of a school on the site, dates from 1890 and states that Miss Kate Linsey and Fraulein Fopp ran a school for young ladies at Heanor Hall. In 1893, the members of the local board of Health at Heanor, taking advantage of the financial aid proposals then being made by the Derbyshire County Authority, initiated a 'School for the purpose of Higher Education in Heanor and District'. The premises known as Heanor Hall were obtained on lease from E. Miller Mundy Esq. and the school was opened on September 9th., 1893. The need there was for the erection of such a school is apparent when it is remembered that in the most populous district of Derbyshire, there was a stretch of County from Chesterfield to Derby, 25 miles long by 15 miles in width, in which no grammer school or public secondary school existed. Mr. Ralph Stoddard, B.Sc., was appointed first Headmaster in June, 1893, a position he held for 35 years. One of his first duties on arriving in Heanor, was to issue an appeal to the 100,000 inhabitants in the districts concerned for financial aid. The first Heanor Technical Education Committee consisted of the following members:- E. Miller Mundy, Esq. - Land and Colliery Owner - Shipley. Fitzherbert Wright - General Manager, Butterley Company - Langley Mill. Rev. C. E. L. Corfield - Vicar, Church of England - Heanor. Rev. G. Avis - Minister, Congregational - Marlpool. Mr. W. Bardill - Manager, Gas Works - Langley Mill. Mr. U. W. Doar - Builder - Heanor. Mr. G. B. Gregory - Gentleman Farmer - Heanor House. Mr. J. Goddard - Shopkeeper? - Langley Mill. Mr. J. Holmes - Grocer - West Hill. Mr. J. Holbrook - Surveyor, Butterley Company and Heanor Town - Elmsfield House. Mr. J. Hodges - Colliery Undermanager, Shipley - Sye Lane House. Mr. T. Mayfield - Manager, I. and R. Morley - Heanor. Mr. A. Martin - (?) - (?). Mr. G. Oldershaw - Builder - Marlpool. Mr. J. Oldershaw - Chemist - Red Lion Square. Mr. R. H. Pender - Official, G. R. Turner - Langley Mill. Mr. R. H. Robinson - Solicitor - Heanor. Mr. S. Towson - Farmer - Langley Mill. Mr. H. R. Watson - Colliery Manager, Butterley Company - (?) The public spirit of Messrs. T. Mayfield, J. Holbrook, J. Holmes and S. Towson deserves mention. They guarenteed the sum of £2000 to the Heanor Joint Stock Bank, although, fortunately, the money was never called upon. In the early days of the School, the financial resources the Committee had were firstly the one penny Rate, which just covered the rent of the premises and secondly, the School fees which were £2 per pupil per year. The County Education Committee paid for forty Scholarships; the Richardson Charity, Smalley, provided eight others; the other pupils paid their own fees which were 13 shillings per term. Another source of income to provide money for heating, lighting, cleaning, woodwork, needlework, cookery, chemicals and apparatus for laboratories together with saleries for staff and secretary (Mr. H. Grassby) was the South Kensington Science and Art Examinations, who paid £2 per head for successes in examinations in Elementary Theoretical Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics Etc., a system which was called 'Payment by Results'. In one year, 63 pupils sat for the Practical Chemistry Examination, for which the grant was £3 per head. As 61 passed, that one subject earned £183. The work of teaching Science, fell upon Mr. Stoddard for some time, then he was joined by Mr. W. T. Clarke, B. Sc. In addition to Science, English, Geography, History, French, Needlework, Woodwork, Clay-modelling, Cookery, Art and the Violin were also taught. The first French Mistress was Miss Athya, who was succeeded by Miss Dorothea Birt. In 1902, the school became the Heanor Technical School under the Board of Education and Payment by Results ceased and the financial position improved. In 1907, His Majesty's Inspectors had this to say of the Technical Committee:- "The local Committee who recognised the need for the school fourteen years ago and who have done so much to meet this need, have deserved well of their town and locality". In 1907, there were 331 pupils in daily attendance, of whom 80% came from all directions - Long Eaton, Sawley, Sandiacre, Trowell, Stanton, West Hallam, Shipley, Smalley, Horsley Woodhouse, Marehay, Ripley, Somercotes, Swanwick, Alfreton, Codnor Park, Ironville, Eastwood, Nuttall and Kimberley - the other 20% from the Heanor Urban District area. There were 55 Scholarship pupils - County, Richardson and Scargill - and the penny Rate was still levied. In 1906, the Committee of the School and the Heanor Urban District Council purchased the School buildings and the land around from Mr. Mundy for £2,538. It is claimed that the Heanor U. D. C. was the first in Britain to raise a penny Rate for Higher Education and the first authority to establish a co-educational school. It was difficult organising schoolwork for 350 pupils or more in an old Georgian Hall. Some were in the 'parlour', some in the kitchen, some in the billiard room (known as the Art Room), some in first floor upstairs rooms, some in the garret, some in the garden (or Chemical Lab), some were in the 'Great Seat of Learning' (otherwise the Church Institute, on Sye Lane) and others in the Wesleyan domain. The need for playing fields was obvious, as the school was very keen on games. In 1908, the Headmaster accepted the offer to become tenant of the Town Recreation Ground and agreed to pay Mr. Mundy £100 a year as rent. He spent £400 on improvements and the school had a good time. Later, the Heanor U. D. C. required the ground as a public recreation ground and refunded Mr. Stoddard's expenditure. In the early years, there was no uniform, but a silver brooch bearing the letters HTS, usually displayed on the pupils hat, or cap, was worn. In 1906, Lord Roberts appealed to the Country for military training and training in marksmanship, under the threat of war. Rifle ranges were urgently needed. Fortunately, a suitable site for a miniature range was available and the School Governors supported the call. Rifles and ammunition were obtained and with Mr. Rodway Barnes as leader, together with Mr. J. A. Doran and Mr. S. E. Howse, the school soon had a fine team. In 1908, they all set out for Bisley and many of them received bronze medals of the National Rifle Association. Many of the team qualified and shot with credit at long range (two hundred to five hundred yards) with service rifles. Captain Birt spoke of the team as one of the smartest in the camp and the school felt that the safety of the Empire was in good hands. The school magazine, for 1909, reports the:- "Miniature Rifle Range has become a much appreciated asset in the outdoor life of the pupils. The Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs Official Championship Medal, for Heanor Secondary School, was won by Ralph Cyril Stoddard, with a magnificent score of ten hits and three misses in one and a half inches. Pupil Gardiner won the Bronze Medal". Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 10/27/2005 10:14:41 PM I remember Mr. Todd I think that HGS was his first school .I feel quite sad about it now but I think that he got a shock .I was in a class that wanted for some silly reason to disrupt , no - to stupidly act childish and silly at any opportunity , for peer prestige .Ah well can't change the past .I can remember him in his gown striding to the front of the classroom amidst a barrage of jeers .Sorry! |
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replied on: 11/27/2005 3:28:49 PM you shouldn't be too sorry for Mr Todd - he wasn't a very pleasant teacher. I knew his son very well and he told me how much his father disliked us all. A holiday with the Todds in Scotland confirmed this for me. I do still have pleasant memories of his 'a b c of chemistry' and his 'avogadro's hypothesis' in the broadest scots he could muster. |
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replied on: 12/3/2005 8:15:22 PM Did anyone else have the pleasure of being taught to dance by Miss Winfield? She would start off on the main corridor near the Headmaster's office,and waltz you straight down as far as the domestic science room where she would pause to have a drag on her ever-lit cigarette, then turn you round and retrace her steps. To this day I have only ever been able to waltz in a straight line. |
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replied on: 12/5/2005 7:15:21 PM I think that I am feeling sorry for the wrong science teacher .Grey cells kicking in , it was Mr Lewis not Angus Todd who we used to "tease". It was Angus who used to throw the blackboard rubber at us /me . I remember messing about with Nitric Acid cleaning old copper pennies in the lab.sink Mr.Lewis was too polite or afraid to tell us off .What's that smell? he used to say , smoke rising from the sink. db |
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replied on: 12/6/2005 7:59:08 PM Mrs.Ford taught chemistry for a term or so around 1958. She had an incredibly strong 'Brummie' accent,and could not understand why her pronunciation of both 'sulphite' and 'sulphate'sounded identical to us. It didn't matter, we didn't understand the rest of it anyway! |
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replied on: 2/12/2006 1:09:43 AM Did anyone ever get the chance to go down the airraid shelters on the school playing fields? If so, what were they like? |
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replied on: 2/21/2006 2:55:21 PM My Mother won a scholarship to the Grammer School from Langley Mill Girls School. That would have been late 30's, I guess. Think the Grammer was private in those days. Dont know who taught French during those years but she never forgot what she learned. I do remember her talking about Miss Webb. Would love any info from that time. |
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