John Quinn
A Memory of Worcester.
I wonder if anyone might remember my father who was a teacher in and around Worcester for many years. He began his career at a primary school in Claines, probably in the late 1940s. Thereafter he worked at St Paul's Secondary, in a building which I believe is now a Worcester porcelain museum. He followed this with a spell as deputy head (I think) at St George's Roman Catholic Primary on Sansome Place, before moving to Bristol in 1968 to the post of headteacher at a primary school near the centre of the city.
In his spare time he trained football teams, firstly in the St Paul's district and later at the YMCA on Henwick Road.
Unfortunately he died very suddenly in 1987, from anaphylactic shock. He was 66.
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Hello Dawn and thanks for this. Yes that was my dad and he did teach French as well as other subjects. It was at a time when it was thought by the powers that be, to be a good thing to teach French to primary school pupils. So much so that local education authorities paid for selected teachers to spend 3 months in France to become immersed in the language. This my dad did. He returned, proficient in French...and with a black eye!! Never did get to the bottom of that!