Hurlfield School - any ex pupils?

[escort1 10]

If anyone remembers John ( Jack) Evans the art teacher, it was in the Star last week he has just passed away aged 84.

[zakes 68]

Part 9

 

Classmates, school mates and fellow pupils, it’s your lucky day.

 

All good things comes slowly in life.

 

Patience goes seldom unrewarded.

 

You have been very patient so here is your reward.

 

Here is info from 1964. My form teacher was Mr. Turton. 1968-69. [navigate to next 2 photos for larger views]

[zakes 68]

Part 10

 

Here is further teacher’s info. This info is from slightly earlier than the last lot I posted. Note the changes in salary of some.

[johno30 10]

On 18/10/2007 at 18:43, caronlel said:

I was there from 1980 to 1984 - mostly against my will it has to be said!

 

Is there anyone else willing to admit they were there too?

i WAS THERE THEN TOO MY LAST TEACHER WAS MISS HOWLAND - LATER MARRIED BECAME ROBSON IF I RECALL 

[Markstevo 10]

On 27/09/2020 at 21:44, johno30 said:

i WAS THERE THEN TOO MY LAST TEACHER WAS MISS HOWLAND - LATER MARRIED BECAME ROBSON IF I RECALL 

Mrs Ann Robson? If so she was my form teacher up until i left in 87, not long after i heard she went & teached at Hindhouse school.

[Keanaz 10]

Just joined the FB page so might be a few peeps on here I remember etc

I was there 72 - 77 in Mr Tim Crebor's class

used to go to the Youth Club - Mr Standing ran it?

Left in May/June 77 and joined the Army for 24 Years

now live in Exmouth, Devon and only very occasionally go back to Sheffield to see family etc, although all my brother's and sisters live in other parts of the World now.

Mark

[Paul Worrall 4]

Hi Everybody,

 

It's interesting to read all the posts about Hurlfield School for Boys. I was at Hurlfield between 1963-68. There is a substantial amount of information about the school, students, teachers, incidents etc on Sheffieldhistories.com/Hurlfield School for Boys.

 

I'm trying to find out about the Michael Swan incident. Michael Swan (Swanny) blew himself up in the Science Prep Room in a think May 1966? Mr Peter Jennings was the Science Teacher at the time but the incident wasn't his fault. The incident made the local Press; Sheffield Telegraph and Star, local BBC/ITV News and the National Media. Swanny had to have major skin drafts and was off school for ages.

 

I've trawled the Internet but can't find anything about the incident. Has anybody out there got any news/information about what happened? Does Michael Swan still live in Sheffield?

 

Cheers.

 

Wazzie Worrall

 

 

[speedypete0 12]

mick was always making little working cannons i believe he was making the propellant for them when it exploded

 

[Paul Worrall 4]

Hi Speedy Pete,

 

You're right! Mick Swan would make anything which went 'bang', cannons, rockets.

In those days you could buy Potassium Nitrate in any local chemist, so making gunpowder wasn't difficult.

Are there any more Mick Swan memories out there?

Cheers, Wazzie Worrall

[Paul Worrall 4]

On 06/04/2016 at 08:58, escort1 said:

If anyone remembers John ( Jack) Evans the art teacher, it was in the Star last week he has just passed away aged 84.

Hi Escort.

 

I was at Hurlfield 1963-68.  Jack Evans taugh us Art but he also taught us PE. He would also walk us from Hurlfield down City Road to the Park Swimming Baths.

 

He once gave me a punishment for talking in Art. I had to write an essay on 'Noise Abatement in Modern Society'. He also had a 'Hot Seat' for talking. If you were in the Hot Seat when the bell went you would get the slipper!

 

He was a popular teacher but I have a memory that he left Hurlfield when I was in the Third Year.

 

There are Hurlfield School for Boys/Girls pages on the Sheffield Histories - Sheffield Schools. Please add to it.

 

Cheers, Wazzie Worrall

 

 

[Peter John 0]

https://www.facebook.com/groups/302501291633797

There was not a group for Hurlfield school on facebook  so I created one - join us if we went there in any of it various forms over the years!! Reminisce about one of the many Shffield bygone schools

[Karma01 0]

On 19/10/2007 at 13:41, lennonman said:

Went by the school recently and, as well as being called Myrtle Springs now, they have built something on the school fields. Does anyone know what it is. Looks like its cost a few bob! Noticed the East block is still standing, they used to say it was falling down 30 years ago, and the West block is still there and that was even older. What happened to the youth club, is it being used for something else now. That was a great place when it first opened, for those who can remember it had great facilities and even had a disco, with saloon doors and was dark inside like a night club!

I remember this