:) HI,does anyone have memories of hinde house school 1960-64?--i stated in mrs haighs class,she was a right cow!!--other nasty teachers were mr.ward(technical drawing),mrs nicel(craft)lovely looking but a right cow!!--miss(thick neck)smith(music) and the notorious ridgeway & napier!!
the good ones were mrs turner(history)-gorgeous!!--mr turner(maths,i think)-miss pollard(english),and a few more i can name who were real good.

dosent anyone out there remember any of the above teachers?----im real miffed!!

yeh Hinde House in the 60s
remember em but not that well
remember being chased by the shiregreeners on me way home on a number of occasions
they never caught me

hi,rab 1,
who was your form teacher in the first year and do any former pupils names come to mind?
mikey

I was there 63 - 66 moved into the area 63 and joined hinde house in the 2nd year.
remember Mr Thompson was our form teaher in 65

got it wrong the memories lettin me down again it was tomlinson not thompson

got it wrong the memories not wot it used to be it was tomlinson not thompson

i was there 1960-64, a little before you then!--vaguely remember the name tomlinson though!---not as famous as ridgeway,napier and heep etc.--do you remember those?---also i think the notorious headmaster from hell--mr.edwards came just as i was about to leave!
"hated every minute of every day while i was there!!!"

yeh mikey I remember ridgeway , napier n heep
they were still there givin us grief after you were gone

Wot did heep teach wos he a PE teacher?

My memory is definately not wot it was
give us a clue to wot ridgeway taught .
Was it woodwork or sumthin?
I really cant remember
I remember chipin it at lunch times down at the chippy in Fyfe Street with half a loaf scooped out n full of chips
wot about you

Don't know if you are aware, a new Hinde House School has been built on the big playing field which was in front of it. The old school has now been demolished - Quite sad I think. I went there from 1976 - 1980

hi rab1,
ridgeway taught woodwork and napier metal work!----yeah heap did teach p-e!----was mrs howe that cute little blond teacher still there when you were there?
i used to take sandwiches most of the time as i lived at firth park!---was edwards as bad as ex.pupils say he was?--he took over as head from scowcroft as i was ready to leave i think so dont know much about him!---remember pashley though!--he was a bit of a s--t!!---by the way did you go swimming at sutherland road baths and get taught by that b-----d!-mr. scott?
cheers,
mikey:)

Hi Anj
left the area in 1970
so they knocked down the old stalag then
built a new eh
is it still surrounded by barbed wire??????
that was just to keep the shiregreeners out
Ha Ha!!!

Hi Mikey
I dont remember no cute blonde teachers
Yeh The bus for swimmin used to pick us up n drop us all at sutherland road baths
yeh I thought ridgeway n napier taught the craft subjects but its all a long time in the past
I lived on the new estates built in the early / mid 60s on top of wincobank hill
Sandstones n Fort Hill
yeh edwards was there when I first stated at the school but then I started in the 2nd year just after the owler laners had merged with Hinde House Sec n bin turned into a Comp

hi rab1,
funnily enough i moved onto sandstone road between 72-73 when there was no bus route!--bloomin'nightmare it was, had no option but to walk to and from work at attercliffe!!--always had a big hill or loads of steps to climb!!:(
do you remember mr.thomas the maths teacher?--he was a real nice guy as was my old form teacher mr.turner:)
cheers!
mikey:thumbsup:

Hi mikey
I went to hucklow road infant and junior left there in 1963 and went to hinde house until 1966 I remember mrs (thick neck) we used to call her mrs no neck she used to take us for music i think

hi ozgirl,
yeah i feel a bit bad about everyone calling miss smith thick neck:( --app. she had polio or spmething similar when she was little!--but having said that,it didnt give her the right to be a cow!!
who was your form teacher when you started at hindehouse?-do you remember miss toes and miss barker from hucklow not to mention the notorious mr.cisc!!
mikey:thumbsup:

hi mikey
can't remember the first teacher at hinde house but remember the last it was Mr Minahan also remember mr sisk at hucklow he used to make recorders out of bamboo for us

hey rab I was at hinde same time as you we used to go to sutherland road baths do you remember the instructor there he was awful can't remember his name though I actually managed to get ot be a prefect in the fourth year. But used to get in to trouble for wearing stockings the deputy head mistress used to wait for us coming out of assembly and haulus into her office

hi ozgirl,
that awful swimming teacher was mr. scott!!---think he was a sadist!!---im sure i heard later that he was in trouble for hitting a child,cant be sure though!
mikey

hi mikey
yes thats him mr scott I remember he used to push you of the side if you wouldn't jump in he scared me from learning to swim didn't learne to swim until just before I left school, do you remember an english teacher called mr milner and the big slipper he used to have he always seemed to pick on the same boy in our class to practice using it.

hi ozgirl,
yeah remember milner well,though he never taught me.--he once hung a pal of mine out of the 3rd floor window!!--he would have been locked up for doing that nowadays!!--he later taught at hatfield house lane night school.----by the way a few of my old school mates have since died!--two from my forms at hindehouse commited suicide!!:(
mikey

i remember ridgeway and napier...especially ridgeway who loved to embarrass you in front of the class before giving you the slipper just because you made a hash of chopping the wood up wrong in the woodwork lesson...i wouldnt mind but it was ony firewood after i had done with it anyhow..

the instructors name at sutherland road baths was scott

I was one of the Owler Laners who were transferred en masse to Hinde House in September 63 and did my 4th and 5th years there.I remember messrs Ridgeway and Napier very well and I thought they were decent people whom I would put in the firm but fair category.As far as I'm concerned Mr R was very popular with all of us and I've never heard anyone say a bad thing about him.Other F but F teachers were Mr Glasby and Mr Pashley who both vanished mid term,I think with nervous breakdowns caused by overwork.They were doing a lot of the admin that shouid have been done by other people.Time for tea,more later.

Other teachers were Mr Crownshaw (metalwork)who was loud and scary but very good natured and Mrs Fairest who was the only teacher allowed to cane girls although I don't think she ever did.Our home room teacher was Mrs Bermingham who is now a district attorney in Derbyshire.She was a bit blue stocking but very nice and ,of course,I can never forget Mr Hooke.He was head of the English department and did a lot to bring me out of my shell by casting me in a play that we put on at the school speech day at the city hall, and I absolutely starred. To be quite honest I don't recall any of the teachers being quick to use the cane,it had to be for some serious breach of discipline,and I'm sure nobody ever got caned for not being able to do the schoolwork,The principal at that time was Mr Edwards who has a thread all to himself on page 63 so I'll probably make a contribution to that.

You may find this earlier thread interesting...

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18006&highlight=hinde+house

I went to Hinde House '63 to '67. Thomas used to teah Maths and Biology, can't remember the cute blonde, but I do remember the PE teacher called JOK ie J O'Keefe.
i also remember Uriah Heap only because he hated my guts. Came to HH from Owler Lane in '63 and was in Brearley House. was in 2C, 3B1, 4G1 and 5G1

Hi, I've only just noticed this thread. I was at Hinde House School from 1958 to 1962.
I can remember all the teachers mentioned plus a few more.
There was Mr Gill (maths) Mr Hook (english) Mr. Andrews (games and music) and Mrs Napier (can't remember what she taught). There are probably some more but it's a long time ago.

Went there from 63-67.remember Ridgeway throwing the blackboard(whoops
can't say that nowadays)greenboard rubber at anyone talking.

I was there from when it opened in 1956 to 1960.
You may be interested to know that Mr Milner married a girl who was in my 5th year class and was Head Girl - Mary Richardson.
George Ridgeway is still going strong. He attends our reunions and cut the cake for us when we celebrated the 50 th anniversary 2 years ago.
Geoff Hook was my form teacher for last 2 years - a great teacher. He took us to Stratford for the theatre on a couple of occasions and produced "Lady Precious Stream" . He went to Myers Grove as Head but died a couple of years ago.

oh god
I was there 65 -72 and at least they taught me to spell! :0)
You two are giving me the giggles.
Miss Smith was indeed music; Mr David Ward was brand new from college and he was my first form tutor as well as my maths teacher. He was fab! He was also a bass in the choir and used to play about a little and make us girlies laugh.
Mr Ashton and Mr Peck were in the English Dept and were decent, fair chaps.
Miss Plant & Christopher Hawes were also English, but Hawes was a hopeless dipstick - nice guy, but we never finished ANYTHING!
I had a deep crush on Mr Short in Economics (I regretted not taking economics!) he was not short and he had very lttle hair but, oh that smile - swoon.
Who can forget Miss Frohock? She was RE and not NOT lovable. Trevor Ibbotson had a face-off with her and she turned very red, left the room and the dep head returned to retrieve Trevor. What a larf.
Mr Andrews was at the end of his teaching career when he took me for maths, and nobody ever crossed him, although my mother (now 89) remembers him as a new teacher at Wincobank County Primary School "a snotty nosed, nervous thing, and the kids took ruthless advantage of him!" Goes to show how a good teacher develops over the years. A poor teacher simply tries to bully his way through each day to survive.

the instructors name at sutherland road baths was scott
Scott was an evil b*stard. My brother, sister and I all suffered under his boot. He was cruel unless you learned to swim quickly - he was a rubbish teacher - doesn't deserve that description.
If you learned to swim a few strokes, he put you in the intermediate group and the first thing you did was curl into a ball on the poolside, then do a forward roll into the water! I would still die if anyone made me do that. I used to have nightmares and was physically sick the night before swimming day. It was a very unhappy time.
My sister Jean still hates the smell of pools. I learned to swim in a wonderful pool in Bourne in Lincolnshire, taught by fabulous teachers. That was at age 45, 10 years ago. I'm still learning, but my daughter is coaching me now!
My brother Eric learned to swim in the warm waters of Venice/Italy, on holiday with friend George Webster, in his 20s.
Eric also mentioned that Scott was so hated around Wincobank that if he had walked through the streets, he would have been lynched by a mob of unhappy mothers!

Does anyone remember 3 girls who used to sing together late 60s and early 70s?
Cherrill Slater, Trisha Woodcock and I (Lynne) used to sing in harmony and I used to play piano. We even sang at the City Hall for Speech Day once. I don't know how I managed that - I am not a good performer, too scared. Cherrill lives in Portsmouth now and still sings. She had a great voice. Trish had a sweet voice but Cherrill had to sit in the middle, because I sang harmony and Trish needed a strong voice next to her - I'm sure that was only confidence, her voice was lovely.
Trish is on Facebook but hasn't replied to my friend request - if you read this Trish, get in touch please!
I remember when we sang at Speech Day, we decided to dress in maroon dresses to 'honour' the school. I think it was appreciated by staff as a nice touch. And it was all the better, because maroon was actually the Owler Lane school colour, brought in when we merged. We didn't resent the colour, we liked it because it brought some life into the grey grey grey uniform of Hinde House. Also I don't remember any animosity towards Owlers; I think we all just got on with it.
I remember the black girls in the toilets. They had a fantastic knack of back-combing their front hair into a kind of cockscomb; it was an art, but we were too nervous to ask them how they did it. They seemed amazingly confident - maybe they were as lacking in confidence as we were, they just managed to appear confident! I can't remember any of the black girls names, apart from the couple who stayed on for 6th Form; Ovril Reeves and Jennifer Brown (?) Jennifer was bright and breezy and confident, and quite short; Ovril was the most gorgeous person, I took French with her and she used to put up with all our stupid comments about her name, calling her Bovril, so she called me her sister Milo, me being very pale skinned and blonde! I would love to meet her again.

hi mickey we were prob same year i went 61-65 remember all teachers you said

:) HI,does anyone have memories of hinde house school 1960-64?--i stated in mrs haighs class,she was a right cow!!--other nasty teachers were mr.ward(technical drawing),mrs nicel(craft)lovely looking but a right cow!!--miss(thick neck)smith(music) and the notorious ridgeway & napier!!
the good ones were mrs turner(history)-gorgeous!!--mr turner(maths,i think)-miss pollard(english),and a few more i can name who were real good.

i remember ridgeway, he once threw board rubber at me,i remember miss gregorian, english teacher, very nice woman.