Any one out there attend this school (now St Monica's)I was one of the first intakes into the school when it opened in 66, ironically i live now in Bury and pass the site quite often and always laugh when i think of the days we went swimming at Heaton Park Boating Lake, tried to get a drink at the Ostrich Pub next door, and tried to board the train into Manchester without paying. The headmaster was a Mr Hermolle (his daughter Sarah was always at the school teasing the hormonal lads), deputy head Mr Walker was incredibly strict, but i hasten to add fair. Any memories guys??
Do you mean Mike Szabo - went to St Pete's and also St Phillips - lived in Prestwich (Bury New Road)?Also Tony Slade/ Hattie Jaques...Slade was my form teacher (1A in '67) and very fond of the cane - as well as smacking you on the back of the head. Most of the teachers were violent - to some degree or other - and had their own preferred method of inflicting pain (eg Ramsden had "007" = a leather strap with knots in the end so it really hurt).Mrs Jaques (known as Hattie after the actress in the Carry On Films) was a Chemistry teacher (I think) and got it on with Slade. They had a large Ford Consul which (for some reason) kept having flat tyres. They got married...Years later I was at a United Shareholders meeting - then held at Manchester Uni - and questions were being taken from the floor. Who should pop up but Tony Slade. I went over and said hello - I could see he had a vague memory of who I was - and discovered he was working as a Tour Guide at Old Trafford Football Ground - he always was a Big Red - so made sense. Hope that explains things...[size=78%]no it was scibor lived in Newton Heath [/size]
Despite being a longstanding season ticket holder at the Etihad, It was unfortunately necessary for me to vist O*d Tr&££#rd on business in late 2016, and I bumped into Tony Slade, who's now in his 80s but still doing part time tour guiding there. I introduced myself as a former teaching colleague of his at St. Peter's, but it was clear he had no recollection of me at all. Perhaps the fact that I was sporting a Mexican bandit moustache had something to do with that, but it was still a bit disconcerting that he did remember my predecessor, Kevin Preston. Just shows what a lasting impression I made at St. Peter's!! For anyone else who found me instantly forgettable, which I fear is quite a lot of people, perhaps the nickname I was given by the kids during my brief tenure - Budgie - might ring a bell or two. Apparently I got the name because of my supposed resemblance to the character played by Adam Faith in the TV series called Budgie at the time. As far as I could see, the only similarity was that we both had shoulder length blonde hair, (Come on, it was the was the early 70s and I was in my early 20s - everybody had shoulder length hair then). I actually felt vaguely insulted, because Adam Faith was at least 10 years older than me.Tony did fill me in on a lot of my former colleagues though, mainly those who had passed away. I was particularly sad to hear that Mike Sandiford, the head of languages and my immediate boss, was no longer with us. A good guy and a well respected teacher.
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