Your Past Schoolteachers - nicknames & memories.

[SpokeyDokey]

Our Headmaster ws J A Fields and was thereby named Jaffa.

 

[Slick]

We had a Jaffa, but for completely different reasons.

 

[Baldy]

Physics teacher was just known as "Bast**d" because he was. Did his upmost to put as many off staying on and doing O- Levels as he could.

 

[Cycleops]

My god we kids were cruel to the teachers. Colonel Newmarch was a retired military man and really too old for his maths teacher's job. We used to play him up something rotten, cut nudie pics out of Razzle and put them in his pocket. Put Swan Vestas into the board rubber which would erupt into flames when used.
Then there was this lady English teacher about 30 who was well liked as she used to push her boobs into your arm when she sat next to you.

 

[Chislenko]

The only one I can recall was a language teacher who was called "bee stings" for reasons to do with her being very flat chested.

I should add this was 50 years ago.

 

[Bazzer]

One of the two PE teachers was nicknamed "Sweetie". That came about when a classmate was mucking about in the showers and the PE teacher threatened to go in the showers and drag him out, to which the classmate responded "Oooh sweetie!" The lad eventually came out and got caned for it, but the caning cemented the teacher's nickname, which spread to other classes as a result.

We had a male metalwork teacher nicknamed Blodwyn. Again that arose from our class. I can't remember how that started, but it stuck when he began driving to school in a yellow Ford van, with the registration BYV, which immediately became Blodwyn's Yellow Van.

At the first school at which my wife taught, one of her departmental colleagues was apparently known by the pupils as "Bullets", due to her sometimes very prominent nipples.

 

[Sharky]

My chemistry teacher was called "sparky". His real name was Mr Watts.

 

[ExBrit]

Our Latin and RE teacher was Oliver Postgate's uncle so we called him Noggin. He didn't mind at all.

 

[Dave7]

I probably go back further than most as I left school in 1961.
History teacher was (to us) old. His name was Wooley and for some reason was know as Sheb Wooley.
I recall one lesson when he marched around the classroom singing "it's a long way to tiparary".
Favourite teacher was Dicky Davis. He gave me 6 of the best once and made my hands bleed........my fault and I never held it against him.
We had one teacher called Draper who was hated. He was due to be our form master and we dreaded it. 1st day back after summer hols we were told that Mr Draper had died.....we were so happy

 

[Beebo]

Mr Holder was called Noddy, 🙄

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

We had a French teacher (the language, not her nationality), when I was in the early years of secondary school

She looked like Kate Bush!
Sadly, I can barely remember a word of the language

Plus, an Australian maths teacher, who was named Bruce (honest!!)


Daughter had a Head Of PT, who was Aiden Ball, he used to tell the kids that his brother was in the clergy..... Canon Ball
(I knew him, his wife & sister, they were all in the same running club as me)

 

[oldwheels]

Granny Kemp and Ping I remember. Granny was for obvious reason but no idea why Ping.

 

[Cycleops]

I probably go back further than most as I left school in 1961.
History teacher was (to us) old. His name was Wooley and for some reason was know as Sheb Wooley.
I recall one lesson when he marched around the classroom singing "it's a long way to tiparary".

View: https://youtu.be/67tKNEsJjTI?si=ON4Rzmfd9KTWnZsN

 

[Bazzer]

Favourite teacher was Dicky Davis. He gave me 6 of the best once and made my hands bleed........my fault and I never held it against him.

You are much more generous than I.
I can still remember the names of every teacher who beat me, both at primary and secondary school and I hated them for it.

 

[Mike Ayling]

We had a French teacher (the language, not her nationality), when I was in the early years of secondary school

She looked like Kate Bush!
Sadly, I can barely remember a word of the language

Plus, an Australian maths teacher, who was named Bruce (honest!!)


Daughter had a Head Of PT, who was Aiden Ball, he used to tell the kids that his brother was in the clergy..... Canon Ball
(I knew him, his wife & sister, they were all in the same running club as me)

It is a well known fact that all Australians are called Bruce.