What A School That Was
I remember being at Castle School, it did have bad and also good times. I remember that head master Mr Bowles and the deputy head master who was called Mr Mellody, he was a rough one. The best part about it is when we were on the field at dinner time we could play football, that was ok. School was horrible, Mr Davison was the best teacher and that Mr Jones, well he was a prat, along with Mr Glendenning, Mr Wheeler not too bad. I found Mr Maddison pretty good and the matron, we had to call her 'mam' when she wasn't, I hated her. Does anyone remember Miss Ferguson? She was a bit of ok. Mr Chatterton was always sniffing round her, he told me to get out when I went into the dining room, dirty man. Does anybody remember me, Reg, I was in Softley house? Mr .Stewart was house master then, I remember Bowles, the hatred man, sacked him. We had a replacement house master called Mr Harding. We had to sit and were made to eat all our food, I hated the fish, we were always have been watched by Bowles.
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Hi Reg, After reading your post it sounds very much like we were there around the same time. I must admit to agreeing with nearly all that you wrote. I remember getting hammered at least twice big time by Bowles, once when I fell from the top of the wall bars in the gym and broke my arm in a couple of places and I cried when I was waiting for the medics, lol silly me eh, 10 years of age, what was I thinking of. The next day Bowles had me in front of assembly to put the point across that we were men and not allowed to cry. Six of the best on the other hand. Then there was the time I broke a window in the yard with a snowball. The next day at assembly Raynor outside my office. I was told to stand outside his office window on the corner and throw snowballs down the hill, I think there was a few of us there. Anyways, the frost had got into the snow and it just cut through yer hands after a few snowballs and every time we stopped we were summoned into his office to warm our hands up, yes you guessed it, 6 of the best, but he was nice about it, he allowed you to chose which hand. I frigging hated him, but as you say the school had its good points and my health as a youngster wasn't so good lungwise so the country air was good for me. Miss Ferguson, was she the one that doubled up in the first aid room? I remember a young woman who was nice. I was in Softly House between 1964/66, and I was at Skegby Hall, I remember Mr Stewart and Harding I think. There are a lot of blanks but on the whole it was better than being at home. Hope all is well with you. Regards. Dave.
Comment from David Raynor on Wednesday, 10th November 2010.