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• Re: St.Aelreds by sarah (Member 10011103) on 27-Apr-2000
  what is it u wanted to know about st aelreds, what year r u in, i left there 2 years ago

• Re: St.Aelreds by Andy (Member 10110006) on 12-Nov-2003
  I know, I work there!
  
  take a look at the newly designed (by yours truly) website!
  
  http://www.st-aelreds.st-helens.sch.uk

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Angela Hayes (Member 10010796) on 21-Apr-2000
  Nick Carroll - are you the Nick Carroll that used to work at Martin Dawes?! I thought you went to work in Lanzarote!!! If this is you e-mail me at angelhid@hotmail.com

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Stuart Davies (Member 10011043) on 26-Apr-2000
  Do either of you know a guy called Andrew Dean, he used to work at M.Dawes

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Gary Shaw (Member 10014254) on 10-Jul-2000
  You cant be the same Nick Carrol that used to live near me ... you used to knock around with my brother Eric Shaw (he went to Boteler as well)
  if so e-mail me at gazmanchester@hotmail.com (no prizes for guessing where i live now) see ya

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by PaulIrwin (Member 10014753) on 23-Jul-2000
  I was at Boteler 79 - 84........and is Nick Caroll Ians brother...........if so I was in your brothers year:}
  anyone know of what happened to Stanlast I heard he was in Gateshead or some other remote part of the world!!!!!!!!!
  and I also remember the pe teacher...........her first name was heather ..........I think.......not sure bout surname........platt or something

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by stephen murphy (Member 10017727) on 29-Sep-2000
  I seem to remember that there were a couple of cracking PE teachers one after the other. First there was the delectable Mrs. Foxley (who I'm sure Dave Clifton,rugby playing history teacher, fancied), then there was the nubile, sexy Miss Platt (England national hurdler), who I think Clifton ended up marrying..lucky *** I remember pretending to have hurt my ankle once so that Mrs. Foxley would help
  me to the dressing room. It's funny how I was convinced at the time that she would fancy a spotty teenager like myself..nothing wrong with dreaming, hey ?
  
  I'm Ste Murphy, at Boteler around 78 - 83. Now..working and living in Hong Kong.
  Cheers
  Murph
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• Re: Boteler Grammar School by dave lawton (Member 10017979) on 4-Oct-2000
  i went to the boteler 78 - 83. the pe teacher was called thompson , or better known as boff . unfortunatley he died a while ago. the pe teacher was called platt , and i was talking to di spitt or mr reece the biology teacher not too long ago in wilkinsons store , and now he isnt teaching me he is a nice plesent gentleman , not the way i thought at school!!!remember him?? remember fud with his piec
  e of bunson burner tube he used to wack you with??and who was the maths teacher who used to belt you with a trainer , and i dont mean sucker smith!!! i now live in perth australia , any body else moved away?? cheers dave lawton.
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• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Tony McNevin (Member 10020076) on 12-Nov-2000
  I was at Boteler from 71-76. I remember all those mentioned above, Thommo (PE) Fud (complete with bunsen burner tube!!) Sucker (certainly straightened me out with Maths...teach by fear method ). Once you got around him though, he was dead easy to sidetrack. Just mention Leeds United and he'd be off on one! Does anyone remember Jim Ryan, English teacher who was probably the best teacher in the s
  chool...or what about Tony (??) O'Neil...used to whack you on the hand with a gallosher!!
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• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Gary Welsby (Member 10025527) on 7-Feb-2001
  I was at Boteler from 73-78. One of my funniest memories is when I was in the 5th form and some of the more musically inclined people in our year decided to enter the music competition of the Warrington Festival. Come the night of the competition we went to the Parr Hall to watch them. The rest of the schools had sent pupils who were playing violins and trumpets etc. and the judges were 3 sweet ol
  d ladies who looked as if they were going on for 90!
  Then the big moment arrives out come the guys from Boteler...looking like rejects from the Sex Pistols. They launched into a set of punk songs mainly consisting of the line "i'm an orgasm addict". They were bouncing around the stage so much that the guitar leads kept coming unplugged from the amps,not that they seemed to notice!
  When they had finished and the little old ladies had recovered enough they pronounced judgement. Needless to say they only awarded us last place because there was nothing lower!
  Later that year the whole of the 5th year who seemed to be taking Anarchy in the UK to heart were made to remain behind after morning assembly, where Percy (Mr Percival) the deputy Head threatened the entire year with expulsion! Ahhh fun times!
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• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Kevin Lawton (Member 10025534) on 7-Feb-2001
  I went to Boteler between 1973 and 1980 and so remember all these teachers. What memories! To answer Dave Lawton’s query, I think the PE teacher that used to “warm your bottom” (to use his words!) was Don Stobbs. I remember he often forget names – he used to call everyone whose name he’d forgotten “Jackson”. I also remember Fud used to go for a sly puff of his pipe in the chemistry lab stock room
  during lessons and then went ballistic if you stuck your head round the door to ask him a question. Bit naughty, Fud! I’ve always wondered what the old teachers were doing now, those that are still drawing breath. Any news, please email.
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• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Gary Welsby (Member 10025527) on 7-Feb-2001
  Here is another name from the past...Happy Harry (Mr Harrison the maths teacher)He taught those of us that Sucker Smith had washed his hands of. ie set 4. I still feel bad about the way we would act up in his class. His was our next set after biology and he would often come into our class to find on his seat the remains of whatever we had discected in biology. In one class I remember Mike Solan wh
  o could do a mean impression of a trim phone ringing, brought a phone into class and every few minutes you would hear the sound of this phone ringing. Mike would answer the phone and hold an imaginary conversation with himself.To be fair to Mr. Harrison he tried to keep his composure and continue the class but he was no match for us.
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• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Gary Welsby (Member 10025527) on 7-Feb-2001
  Other teachers I remember from the 7o's were:
  FagAsh Lill the French teacher don't remember her real name...Doc Elliot the coolest woodwork teacher...Pin Head the German Teacher again don't know his real name. I also remember a geography teacher whos name I don't remember, not Thommo but the other one who was always going fell walking and drove the school mini-busses.His name could have been Stan
  or Stanley something.
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• Re: Boteler Grammar School by dave lawton (Member 10017979) on 12-Mar-2001
  just a few names of teachers that were at the latest reunion ( i wasnt there live in perth!!) but thoses who were there included stan ogden geography , percival deputy head , harry livesey history , bill oxley physcis , dave shade biology ,pinhead phoenix french. anyone remember the tuck shop where you could buy 10 mars bars and get change for 20 pence as it was all your mates behind the counter!!!!!!!!!

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by dave lawton (Member 10017979) on 12-Mar-2001
  who was the woodwork teacher who used to look the spitting image of gerry adams, and remember boring brien glover??

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Kevin Lawton (Member 10025534) on 12-Mar-2001
  How did you find out about the reunion, Dave? Would love to attend any future ones if poss. I remember the tuck shop well but you had to avoid trying to pass any foreign coins in your handful of loose change when Babs Walton was serving because she had eyes like a hawk. I also remember Brian Glover (Goldfinger), the English teacher, too. It wasn’t that he was boring (I went on a school trip to Aus
  tria with him and he was brilliant) but just that he was so-o-o slow! He took and age to get through a Shakespeare play and then just as everyone sighed an enormous relief when he got to the end, he’d say “Well, let’s go back and have a look at it in more detail”. If only we could have slit our wrists with the blunt edge of a ruler….!
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• Re: Boteler Grammar School by dave lawton (Member 10017979) on 13-Mar-2001
  i will find out about the next reunion for you kev and let you know.another question for you, who was the art teacher we used to call stavros , a big guy with bushy hair???

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Greg Millar (Member 10032409) on 7-May-2001
  I attended Boteler from '76-'81, I remember Nicky Carroll and all the teachers mentioned. My daughter goes there now, only Hugh Chambers left from our days. Don't see much of anyone else from our year, where are they now??

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Michael Gabriel (Member 10040975) on 14-Aug-2001
  Still trying to take all the nostalgia in from the message board - brilliant! Was lucky enough to attend a reunion a couple of years ago for '78 & '79 1st year pupils but haven't heard of any more. Pam Jones organised that particular one but I'm not sure if she's planning a re-match!?
  I can remember most of the teachers; Thomason the ozone-unfriendly and, sadly, deceased PE teacher (does anyone
  remember his son dropping him off in the morning on a tortured Lambretta which you could see visibly creaking under their combined weight?) and the art teacher was Mr Hughes who used to make extraordinarily barbed comments about you if you stepped out of line - bit like a poor man's Oscar Wilde. Does anyone know what has happened to Wiggy Woods, Quango or Val Cartwright? Absolute madness - all of it! So many good memories - anarchic shoolbus journeys, bellowing "Jerusalem" and the School Song ("swift as the eagle cuts the air....")in assemblies..too many to mention but I loved every minute. My last day still stands as one of the saddest of my life.
  Would love to hear from anyone, especially from the 78-83 or 79-84 years.
  
  Oh, nearly forgot; really nice to see a couple of old boys from my year still taking an interest - Hi Steve(Murphy)and Dave(Lawton) - hope you're both well!
  
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• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Michael Gabriel (Member 10040975) on 14-Aug-2001
  I'm here again. Have lost the best part of a working day going back over some of the times of my life and wondered if anyone still has any old photos? I have lost every photograph or artefact associated with my Boteler-days and would be grateful if anyone could mail something to me at the address shown. Especially welcome would be pictures from the '78-'83 years but anything would be gratefully received!

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Kevin Lawton (Member 10025534) on 5-Nov-2001
  I have a scanned photo of the staff of 1976. If you’d like the memories to come flooding back, especially of Stavros with his amazing hair and jacket, email me and I’ll reply with the photo attched to it.

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by janet man (Member 10060674) on 27-Feb-2002
  my brother billy brown went to the school, but left to go to south africa in 1975, his uncle edward brown left the school in 1976 but now lives in the states does anybody remember them??? billy played soccer for the school.

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Mark Livesey (Member 10108205) on 21-Oct-2003
  Is this the same Kevin Lawton who used to live in Statham Avenue?

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Kevin Lawton (Member 10025534) on 18-Nov-2003
  Sure is! Next door to you, in fact, Mark!

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Mark Livesey (Member 10108205) on 18-Nov-2003
  So Kevin, where do you live now? I think the last I heard you were around the Bristol area. I just came across this board by chance when I was searching Google for anything about Boteler. Guess I am becoming nostalgic in my old age.

• Re: Boteler Grammar School by Kevin Lawton (Member 10025534) on 19-Nov-2003
  Mark, please drop me an email at kevinl_61@hotmail.com.

• Re: Skate Spots by Pam (Member 10009513) on 23-Mar-2000
  Can anyone tell me what the fibreglass surface is like? How does it wear and what it is like to skate on. Thanks

• Re: Jason Paul Brown by Victoria Lowe (Member 10006135) on 2-Jan-2000
  Jasons Family now live in Wales.
  Stop hounding the poor bloke he has a right to privacy!!

• Re: Jason Paul Brown by nick carroll (Member 10008209) on 24-Feb-2000
  I heard he moved up to Scotland after the RSPCA| were tipped off by a vet about his strange hobby

• Re: looking for old school friends by Emily Grimshaw (Member 10002970) on 5-Nov-1999
  Hi, My mum went to Woolson high around that time. Her name would have been Sandra Isherwood back then. I'll ask her if she knows who you mean.

• Re: looking for old school friends by Vyvyan Baxter (Member 10004355) on 29-Mar-2000
  Thanks for taking the trouble, I don't remember your mum but who knows she may know someone i do after all it's a small world

• Re: EILEEN MULLANEY by Don Konley (Member 10000591) on 8-Dec-1999
  Edith, you might go to the Burtonwood site and post a message there.
  Don

• Re: EILEEN MULLANEY by Edith Cotter (Member 10002721) on 12-Jan-2000
  Thanks Don - will do