Old school headmasters & their nicknames

[mh01 10]

during my time at colley from 80 to 85 our head was mr jagger the sheepsha@@er , it didnt help him that we had a farm on the school site with several sheep! we also had a deputy by the name of miss bennett also known as battleship Come on folks you can sound off now without getting the cane!

Edited February 14, 2009 by mh01

[Plain Talker 11]

oh dear!

 

The headmistress at Abbeydale Grange Lower School was Miss Williams in the 70's, her nickname was "Frog". Her Deputy was Mr Longley, known as "Daddy Longlegs"

[Elwood 10]

Headmaster of the City Grammar School in the 1950s was Mr Northeast, Nicknamed "Windy".

[PopT 10]

At All Saints the headmaster rarely had a cigarette out of his mouth and being over 6 feet tall the kids nicknamed him 'The Towering Inferno'.

 

I thought this was one of the best nicknames I've come across.

 

PopT

[Antijammer 10]

Headmaster of Carfield Intermediate School in the 1940's ,"Old man Yak" (Mr.Kay).

Not very original, but there you are ! He was certainly one of the fairest men I've ever

met,a real gentle man and there were some tough kids at that school.

[slh73 32]

Mr Barron at Prince Edwards, AKA Barron Greenback, after the toad in the Dangermouse cartoons.

[tasha_78 10]

Mr Vernon Cross at Prince Edwards was known as "Very Cross"

 

Dr Florence Mary Green at Abbeydale Girls Grammar was just known as "Flo"

[shanes teeth 10]

Mr Biggins at Silverdale was just known as George and the deputy head,Charlie Shooter, was Known as Pop.

[hennypenny 10]

Mr Hook head of Wisewood school in the 1970's was known as The Frog simply because he looked like one.

[hillsbro 30]

Nathaniel Langford Clapton (1903-1967), headmaster of King Ted's from 1950 to 1965 was known, appropriately, as "Fat Nat" (among other things....)

[kerleytops 10]

William ( or was it Walter? ) Humpstone, head of Chaucer School, aka Batman because he wore an academic gown...

[cigy 10]

oh dear!

 

The headmistress at Abbeydale Grange Lower School was Miss Williams in the 70's, her nickname was "Frog". Her Deputy was Mr Longley, known as "Daddy Longlegs"

 

& Cooper Man at the upper school.