Not many of ours had nicknames, but I remember a few
"Walrus", the 2nd deputy head, no idea why 😂
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And Butto, our very Welsh exceptionally good and enthusiastic head of biology. I heard via a friend whose dad knew him later as an HMI that he was known as Butto professionaly too. Obviously us kids would still call him Mr
Evans to his face.
Our woodwork teacher was Basher, presumably because he bashed bits of wood together, as he didn't hit us kids particularly, and was only averagely strict.
Heard years later that one of our physics teachers was on HMS Amethyst during the Yangtze incident and our master of sarcasm, cynical history teacher had supposedly been a Spitfire pilot during the War.
To be fair most of our teachers were OK, and at worst a bit cynical and serving out their time. Quite a few were exceptionally good, particularly those I had in the sixth form. My physics teacher particularly was inspiring and he'd really stretch our understanding with tricky questions (philosophical thought experiments rather than merely complex). In retrospect this might have been unhelpful for those who might have been struggling or not doing maths as well but it really helped stretch my understanding as someone who was (then) very good and maths and physics.
As time goes on, most of these are no longer with us, even the then younger ones, not helped by many being heavy smokers. I remember the huge wafts of smoke which would emerge from the staffroom if you had to knock on the door for an errand
