Walton Technical Schooll Carisbrooke Road
I Popped into Walton Tech School when I was last in Liverpool in 1987. I wondered around and nothing had changed since I had left in 1958. I believe it is now a junior girls school (or bulldozed!). Anyhow some things I remember.
Mr Harry Im metalwork. Mr Prescott (I think) English (we used to stick potatoes up the exhaust pipe of his car. He had a lavatory brush moustache ). Mr Gordon French (He could speak six languages and was in a concentration camp in the war and he lived in Southport in a house with a tall chimney . He told us he could see the stars if he looked up it during the day (he was correct). Mr Jones geography. Mr ward was mathematics and sport. The history teacher (I cannot remember his name)had a full head of white hair and would occasionally go into shell shock from the war in front of us all. Mr Bradshaw had a habit of sticking his tongue in his cheek. I left in July 1958 and the headmaster Mr Clarke dropped dead one week later ! I still have my school report from 1953 to 1958 (it was terrible!). I was not allowed to take my A levels as they all said I was hopeless! I am now a scientist with four science degrees including a Master of Science and am just completing a Doctorate (I waited until I retired to do all this). So all of those teachers were right as I achieved nothing in my working life beyond being a hard working labourer. If you see Mr Bradshaw anytime, tell him I was a late starter and that I would like to tell him where to now stick his tongue!
Walton Secondary Technical School
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Originally Posted by
Billy Turnbull
Hi Guys ,
I've just found this forum, I was at Walton Secondary Technical School from 1951 to 1956. I remember Mr Gordon (French teacher), Mr Finley (maths) and Mr Jones (geography), Mr Bradshaw(physics), anybody remember any others?
Bill Turnbull. :thumbsup:
I attended this school from 1954 to 1959. I remember all those teachers together with Mr Wally, (science) and Mr Lawence (Building Costruction). I was called a Builder at first but when the head master (Mr Dunn) moved to a new school, the next head , Mr Clark, changed the set up and we moved to Carrisbrook Road.
My Gordan was nick named Ike because he was Jewish. Some contributors to this blog remember him as Ike Moses but that wasn't his real name. He wasn't a very efective teacher but he had the redeeming characteristic of not either using the cane or sending boys to the staff room to be caned by who ever was at hand, mostly Mr Bradshaw the deputy head. I particularly remember a crazed old teacher who said he used to be in the Royal Flying Core in WW1. He was totally demented but it could have true.
There was a famous scandal from before I attended when the head teacher, Dr Oliver, was alleged to have bogus qualifications insofar as he had no qualifications at all. He was denounced by his deputy and commited suicide by drinking acid in a teaching laboratory.
It was a cold, brutal place but some of the subjects such Mathematics and Science were well taught.