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Teacher Mr Charles Dodd
My grandad was a Mr Charles Robert Dodd who taught woodwork up till 1967 at the school from about 1948 till he died in 1967, can anyone remember him?
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RE: RE: Teacher Mr Charles Dodd
Hi ALexandra,
I remember Mr Dodd well. A tallish slim built chap with grey hair; did he wear glasses? I may be confusing the glasses with Mr Boreman who taught metalwork!
Mr Dodd was great and woodwork was one of my favourite subjects. I remember his classroom being in one of the huts way down the end of the school almost in the fields.
My big woodwork project was an ironing board which my Mum (lives in Ryarsh and is now 95!) used for years. In fact, it is only in recent years that she has replaced it. I must ask her if she still has my old one stuffed in a cupboard somewhere.
I left Snodland school in 1963 and was the end of a long line of Spains - John, Terry, Gill, Carol then me. My sister's husband, George Saunders, was also there. I think the classes I was in was 1A1, 2A2 (yup, went down!), 3X (yup, went back up!), then 4X and then into the world of work and Maidstone Tech College for one day a week.
Best regards
Mick
Comment from Michael Spain on Tuesday, 11th August 2009.
RE: RE: Teacher Mr Charles Dodd
Hi Alexandria I was at Snodland County Secondary School from Sep 1963 to Mar 1966 when I left at age 15 to become an apprentice fitter and turner at Snodland paper mill. I remember Mr Dodd very well as he taught me both woodwork and technical drawing. I remember making a small footstool and a coffee table which my mother still has at her house in Birling. The technical drawing tuition gave me the background knowledge to becoming a mechanical marine engineer working on ships modifications in Chatham and Devonport dockyards. Many thanks Roy Parrott
Comment from Roy Parrott on Thursday, 6th January 2011.