Stubbington House School Teachers

Blimey - I was on that visit to HMS Stubbington! I do remember the teacher with the tin leg - who was a fantastic swimmer (after the pool was built in the courtyard in the centre of the school).

Some other memories - Mr Barnes, the woodwork teacher, and his wife Mrs Barnes who was a school cleaner. Hugh T Sara - who taught Latin and was the master who escorted us on the train from Waterloo in 1954 (before I was 7!).

Mr Kingdom, who taught maths, and a young games teacher called Mr Prosser.

I remember when Mr Foster died and the school got a new headmaster, whose name I forget, but I remember having a schoolboy crush on his wife.

I don't remember many of the other boys. But I do remember Richard Northcott, who lived in Liphook. And a really nice guy called Saye (I think) whose father was an Air Vice Marshall who was killed.

And the names Madden and Fogarty ring bells too!

I too remember Fogarty, Northcott and Saye and a chap called Knatchbull. My grandparants used to pick me up at the end of term and take me to Southampton airport so i could fly back home to Jersey, usually in an old BEA Dakota but sometimes in an even older Rapide (the only plane that made me sick it was so rough!) do you remember the 'section marks' one was given for misbehavior and the 'conduct' mark if one really went OTT with the result that old Foster would read out the amount of bad marks and follow it up with the ominous words 'Come and see me after' which meant the 'stick' usually 3 or 4, but sometimes the full 6 especially if one was caught 'facing the clock' after being sent out of class! i also used to wonder how some of the teachers could be so remarkably accurate with a piece of chalk or the blackboard duster, years of practice I suppose- they would all be had up for hitting children in todays world!
Keep the memories coming.
Paul Cockburn-Mercer