Former
pupils of both Fartown Secondary Modern School and Fartown
High School are having reunions to renew their acquaintances
with their old freinds and catch up on all their lost years.
Several people have been in touch with the Fartown
School website to enquire about the whereabouts of their
old teachers and how they can get in touch with them with
a view to inviting them to their reunions.
Teachers,
why not register your details with us so that the people
that you once taught can now contact you direct to say thank
you, and perhaps invite you as their guests to any future
reunions that may be in the pipeline. Send details
of when you were at Fartown School to our webmaster
so that they can be included on this page.
Peter
Bower
A craft teacher at Fartown Secondary Modern School from
1958, then at Fartown High School until 1985. Presently
residing in Huddersfield.
John
Edge
Taught Physical Education and Maths at Fartown High School
from September 1972 to July 2000 and was Head of both
upper & middle schools for many years.
Julie
Edge (nee Wright)
Taught Physical Education at Fartown High School from
Sept 1976 until leaving in April 1981 to start a family.
Brian
Hardwick
Attended Fartown Secondary Modern School from 1965 until
1970 then later at Fartown High School as a teacher where
he taught French until 1990. I would like to hear from
anybody who cares to get in touch with me. (Teachers should
not have favourites!)
Paul
Hesselden
After completing his teacher training in Leicester in
1972, he was appointed to teach Humanities at Fartown
High School in 1975. He has remained there ever
since.
Brian
Jenkinson
A school teacher at Fartown School for 28 years (1950
to 1978) teaching Religious Instruction. Still alive
and well but getting older.
Christine
Fenton (1986 - 1994)
Many happy memories of Fartown School. A happy school.
I was Head of Maths and IT Co-ordinator. I am now living
in Boyle, Co. Sligo, Republic of Ireland breeding Arabian
Horses and Newfoundland dogs and also renovating a derelict
house. I would love to hear from some of my former friends,
including: Shabana, (Serjeet, Charanjit Bhandal), (Rosemary,
Amber and Bethan), Gulnaz Farooq. The names in brackets
mean they were in either the same maths group or tutor
Group. Staff - Rob Laurs, Sue Duquemin.
Dr
Tom Shephard
Hillhouse Secondary Technical School (1951
- 1953)
My first teaching post was at Hillhouse Technical High
School. I taught Woodwork, Metalwork, Mathematics and
Technical Drawing. I was particularly keen on assisting
with Rugby training and coaching. My experience working
at Hillhouse set standards which I was able to maintain
throughout my 40 years in teaching. On leaving Huddersfield,
I worked in Plymouth, Devon and in Norfolk. I was a headmaster
in three large Norfolk secondary/comprehensive schools
over a 25 year period. Very fond memories of Hillhouse
school working with the staff and pupils. I still have
photographs of boys in one of my metalwork classes making
a range of instruments for a meteorology station taken
some 54 years ago!
Obituary
Sun,
16th May, 2004
It is with great sadness that we record the death of Mrs
Martha Woods (Pat), a former Senior Mistress of Fartown
Secondary Modern School. Mrs Woods was living in Edinburgh
at the time of her death.
Who
was where at Fartown in the 60's.... Mr
Ainley, History teacher, had the second classroom on
the balcony (it’s not known who had the first one
- possibly a French teacher). Miss or Mrs Saville,
Biology teacher, had the lab at the top of the steps.
Mr. Dennison, Geography teacher, had the classroom
in the middle of the short end of the balcony.
Sadly, Mr Dennison passed away a few years ago (brain
tumour).
Mr Dowson, Science teacher, had the the lab at the top
of the other staircase it was also the room for class
5/1. Mr Woodhouse had the next classroom on the
balcony but it’s not known what he taught, and
it’s not known who was in the last classroom on
the balcony. Halfway down each staircase was an
office for one of the departments. (again, it’s
not known who occupied them). Under Mr Dennison's
room, in the Main Hall was the Office Practice and Typing
teacher. It is believed she was in a wheelchair
and that she was called Mrs Slater. The next classroom
on the left of the hall, looking from the stage, was
Mr Underwood's room. We don’t know who had
the room next to him. Opposite this room was Mrs
Winters room. She used to carry a small suitcase
and appeared very old to us then. This room had
a number of different teachers.
The last one in the hall was Mr Lord, the Maths teacher.
He took early retirement from the 'new' school and went
to work at St. Davids private school. The gym
was down the stairs at the back of the stage and we
had a number of different P.E. teachers - Mr. Lord was
one and Mr Deveroux, who was a professional rugby league
player at one time, was another. The woodwork
class was above the gym and the teacher was a youngish
man, Mr Belcher, who had an accident with the band saw
and cut off part of his finger. The metalwork
classroom was next door and the teacher was Mr
Bower. At one stage there was a trainee teacher
called Mr. Lodge, but it’s unsure what happened
to him. There were other classrooms at the other
side of the school through the 'tunnel'. Mrs Podzorski
had an English classroom there but we can't remember
the other classrooms. Mr Horace Shaw was the headmaster
and Mr Lockwood was his deputy and he taught pottery
in the room in the 'tunnel'. In this room he had the
imaginary sign up with the 'golden words', "Touch
not, that is not thine". James
Sykes
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