Great Plum wrote:I think he left (maybe under spurious circumstances) at the end of my 3rd form / LE so 1994/5 I think
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Then he went off to Maine A. He was known as Crud in my day - such a charming nickname! I had him for Maths on my UF. A double lesson consisted of being set work to do, and then him disappearing (allegedly to visit a local hostelry) while we got on with things. We were always quiet - being near Mr Rowley's French room was a huge incentive. He, Pattison and Dobbie were big mates.Mid A 15 wrote:When did he leave / retire?Great Plum wrote:He did indeed used to be called Harry...
In fact, when he started teaching at Ch in 1992, there were some teachers who still called him that (I think Mr McCall maybe one...)
He was a junior housemaster in Mid A for part of my time there.
He introduced my year to the delights of Derek and Clive, too, for which I remain eternally grateful.Crippen wrote:Richard "Pinkie" Palmer
introduced me to a lifelong interest in jazz, wore amusing desert suits and claimed that actress Susan George once mistook him for Robert Redford in Harrods, shouting "Robbie! Hey Robbie Redford!" in an American accent (she's English). He was a great laugh, and we'd always manage to divert him from properly conducting our A level English class by "Derek & Clive'ing" the lesson, describing any Shakespeare character as a c**t, therefore going on to discuss the much more worthy subject of Peter Cook.
THK was a Brummy and John Peel was a Scouser and I've heard others say the accents sound similar but to me there seem to be quite marked differences.Crippen wrote:Trivial point: did anyone apart from me think that sleepy Tom Keeley spoke like DJ John Peel? No? Just me then...again.
I gather Lorimer was a pillar of the establishment in his later years, but when he first arrived he was a non-conformist himself. He was believed to be the first teacher to sit down at lunch on the dais without a jacket.Stan wrote:Ron Lorimer - sorry people but I can't get excited about him. He didn't like non-conformists.
THK's accent made him a figure of fun to start with (he joined the staff the year after I arrived, I always think of him as a "new master"). His classroom had to be redecorated after his first year, there was so much ink on the walls. His habit of taking catnaps during lessons didn't help, nor his famous outburst to a noisy class "Stop keep talking!". He married an attractive dietician.Mid A 15 wrote:THK was a Brummy and John Peel was a Scouser and I've heard others say the accents sound similar but to me there seem to be quite marked differences.Crippen wrote:Trivial point: did anyone apart from me think that sleepy Tom Keeley spoke like DJ John Peel? No? Just me then...again.
I think Littlefield would be amazed to find himself in this rarefied company. (And probably vice versa). Actually, this is the first good word I've ever heard about the man.postwarblue wrote:My favourites? Gad Malins, David Jesson-Dibley; big debts to Bill Armistead, Gordon Van Praagh and Pongo Littlefield.
I think Mr Lorimer joined the staff a year or so after my induction to Prep B. I'm sure he taught me Geography for a while. I wouldn't have called him a non-conformist, though. I don't personally remember him on the dais without a jacket, and the Coleridge B dining-table was right next to the dais !michael scuffil wrote:I gather Lorimer was a pillar of the establishment in his later years, but when he first arrived he was a non-conformist himself. He was believed to be the first teacher to sit down at lunch on the dais without a jacket.Stan wrote:Ron Lorimer - sorry people but I can't get excited about him. He didn't like non-conformists.