Frank Johnson
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Margie, you are a mine of information! Yes, it was the Curzon. The Metropole was nearer to Woodthorpe Park where Claremont Cross Country took place. In my last year lots of us were hauled up before Jack Aram for "lampooning" the cross country by wearing hiking boots!
I wasn't a ' bad boy' ,but had the cane quite a few times in my years there!
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What happened to the swimming pool? Are we talking abat the same place? Next to the church and close .to the Carrington Fish & chips shop.p
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Did anyone visit the Carrington Lido or the cinema on Mansfield Rd. (the name escapes me)?The cinema was replaced by a Shell petrol station. Iremember seeing "The One That Got Away" with Hardy Krueger there and Eroll Flynn in "Robin Hood".
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Yes Albert (Mr. Brown) was certainly there and the others ring a bell. I had the cane from Albert for being involved in playing football with a tennis ball on the hallowed rugby pitches one lunchtime!! Didn't Albert have a wooden leg?
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Yeah! Those were the days that some men thought women/girls and people of a different skin shade were inferior.
Thank goodness most of us have moved on!
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Miss Thompson was the Head during my time. My enduring memory of her is "dolly mixtures". She used to reward positive effort and behaviour with two at a time!
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I attended HP. for these two years to do 'A' & 'S' levels, finding it very different from ClaremontSec.Bilateral.
There were some wonderful teachers like Mr. Dobson and Stanley Middleton, who brought English Lit. to life for me, Charlie Mardling, who increased my love of Foreign Languages and real characters like Fred Millage and Bill Grey, with whom we used to visit the Grosvenor Pub at the junction of Hucknall Rd. and Mansfield Rd.
Unfortunately, I lost my love for Geography through being taught by Eric Shepherd, who spent most lessons telling us how he won WW2 and making ex. Claremont and Ellis boys feel inferior.
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Great for Modern Jazz. Saw Tubby Hayes there in 1964, when I was 17. Also used to go to the Boat Clubs when I had enough. Money!
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I remember the green shirts as well as Mr. Postlesthwaite, a great teacher and Miss Chambers, a strict but fair woman. My friends were Christopher Morley, who looked after me when I couldn't speak a word of English, Peter Thornley and Roger Pickering and Godfrey Bachus who lived on or near Wyverton Road. Great times!
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Unless there were two "potassium" incidents, both at the Haywood Annexe, this happened in the academic year 61-62 and I was in the lesson. I don't remember shards of glass, but do remember pieces of potassium ' out of control' racing along my workbench, searing the top.
Most exciting Science lesson of my school career!
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Hello! My name's Frank and I was at Claremont 59-64, before going on to High Pavement. I also attended Claremont Juniors between 56-59. Finding this thread really interesting.
Does anyone remember the day the cup winning Forest team came to an assembly in 59. Jack Birkett's son was a pupil at our school?
Nottingham Youth Choir
in 60's Nottingham
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Can't find a mention of this. Used to practise/ rehearse at Clarendon College. I was a member and we performed "Carmen" at one stage. Unfortunately, another youth and I were booted out for pulling bra straps of girls in the row in front!