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NottyImp said:
Something like that. For some reason, they made me a prefect in the 5th year. Probably because I was a quietly stroppy sarcy little fucker and they were hoping to co-opt me. I just used it as an excuse to use the common room.
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They even made *me* a prefect in the 6th form, that is no claim to fame!
 
clanfordimp said:
Tudor(yellow) Stewart(green) Windsor(red) and York(blue)...have I got that right?
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Now extended to include Lancaster I believe. Windsor for me. Windsor rugby side were coached by Tom Coates who died very young of a heart attack I think. I played FB and always made sure I was the wrong side of the pitch.
 
Impartiality said:
Now extended to include Lancaster I believe. Windsor for me. Windsor rugby side were coached by Tom Coates who died very young of a heart attack I think. I played FB and always made sure I was the wrong side of the pitch.
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He did, whilst out jogging. We were about to do the 6th Form review with him being gently lampooned when he died. Needless to say, it was cancelled. I suspect it was never done again.
 
Impartiality said:
Now extended to include Lancaster I believe. Windsor for me. Windsor rugby side were coached by Tom Coates who died very young of a heart attack I think. I played FB and always made sure I was the wrong side of the pitch.
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Good bloke Tom Coates. Yes very young when he died. Believe he was a heavy smoker.
I played in the 2nd row when playing rugby.
It was great, you could always have a good scrap without being hauled off to Mr Rowdens office, the headmaster, for the stick.
Was it Rowden, not sure I've got that right now?
 
LA_Imp said:
A quick update to the list - I've split between international and UK based Imps and for some the location is at the town/city level and for others it is region or state:

International:

Michigan
Chicago
Los Angeles
United Arab Emirates
Australia (Perth I assume :wave: )
South Africa

UK

Penydarren
Portsmouth
Barnsley
Barnard Castle
London
Telford
Oxford
Buckinghamshire
Stoke-On-Trent
Whitwick
Altrincham
Sedgeley
South Yorkshire
Chester
Warrington
Hartlepool
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There's a Brisbane and Perth Imp I think.
 
clanfordimp said:
Good bloke Tom Coates. Yes very young when he died. Believe he was a heavy smoker.
I played in the 2nd row when playing rugby.
It was great, you could always have a good scrap without being hauled off to Mr Rowdens office, the headmaster, for the stick.
Was it Rowden, not sure I've got that right now?
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Reynolds, I think.
 
clanfordimp said:
Good bloke Tom Coates. Yes very young when he died. Believe he was a heavy smoker.
I played in the 2nd row when playing rugby.
It was great, you could always have a good scrap without being hauled off to Mr Rowdens office, the headmaster, for the stick.
Was it Rowden, not sure I've got that right now?
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Ivan Reynolds was head when I was there if that is who you mean. Mr Steele for metalwork and Mr English for maths before Mr Baron who was a fierce. There was a young female biology teacher whose name I forget, but she was fit. Dear old Charlie Buchan for Physics who should have been retired at least 20 years previous, deaf as a post.
 
Impartiality said:
Ivan Reynolds was head when I was there if that is who you mean. Mr Steele for metalwork and Mr English for maths before Mr Baron who was a fierce. There was a young female biology teacher whose name I forget, but she was fit. Dear old Charlie Buchan for Physics who should have been retired at least 20 years previous, deaf as a post.
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Same for me, but Mr Hopkins for physics. And the poison dwarf, Mr Nelson, for Chemistry. Horrible little man.
 
Impartiality said:
Ivan Reynolds was head when I was there if that is who you mean. Mr Steele for metalwork and Mr English for maths before Mr Baron who was a fierce. There was a young female biology teacher whose name I forget, but she was fit. Dear old Charlie Buchan for Physics who should have been retired at least 20 years previous, deaf as a post.
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Remember all of them very well.
Do you remember the huts on the other side of RP? I went to them whilst they built Ling Moor Junior School.
The huts must of been there a fair while as I remember taking my French oral exam in them while I was at RP.
 
clanfordimp said:
Mr Hopkins lived on Matlock Drive.
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He didn't suffer fools gladly! Once asked me for the value of Pi. I recited in to 8 decimal places to which he replied sarcastically "Oh, I suppose you know it to that length, do you?"

I punched it up on my Casio FX39 and held it up to him. 😁

I only knew it from repeatedly punching it up on the calculator when bored in class. Shut him up, though.
 
Impartiality said:
Ivan Reynolds was head when I was there if that is who you mean. Mr Steele for metalwork and Mr English for maths before Mr Baron who was a fierce. There was a young female biology teacher whose name I forget, but she was fit. Dear old Charlie Buchan for Physics who should have been retired at least 20 years previous, deaf as a post.
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Steele for metalwork I can deal with, but was English for maths somewhat confusing?
 
I'm a bit surprised to see all this RPS nostalgia on this thread.

I was asked to play cricket for Rustons when I was 16. They were a poor side, but several of them were my teachers there. For those who can remember them Messrs Brown, Thomas, Owen, West, and Hopkins and a couple more who I can't recall right now.

This gave me a real dilemma. In no way was I going to call them "sir" on the pitch, but neither at that age could I bring myself to call them by their given names.

This was a bit embarrassing if I wanted to attract attention to anything, all I could do was desperately search for eye contact and yell when any of them saw me.
 
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