Jim McArthur and Royal High School, mid to late 1970s

**p=sh** · 11-01-2010 12:45 PM

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Weed Graham.... was my form master.

you're good.

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Von Gripe... Smith?

very good in fact.

If you remember the name of the History teacher who got fired (allegedly) for giving out a "cock-sock" knitting pattern at the "New Club" then I'll start to suspect you are in fact one of my schizophrenic personalities...

***CropleyWasGod*** · 11-01-2010 12:48 PM

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you're good.

very good in fact.

If you remember the name of the History teacher who got fired (allegedly) for giving out a "cock-sock" knitting pattern at the "New Club" then I'll start to suspect you are in fact one of my schizophrenic personalities...

Um... I have no clue on that one... perhaps just as well. I do remember a History teacher who died, possibly by his own hand. But feel free to share....

***Viva_Palmeiras*** · 11-01-2010 12:52 PM

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Me likewise also, even longer ago

Was going to PM you but you don't appear to have that set up - I wonder if you knew Andrew (drew) Tully would be the right era at "The High School".

**Mickey Edwards** · 11-01-2010 01:02 PM

big up the scholars and paggers up the rocks, as it were

***1875godsgift*** · 11-01-2010 01:26 PM

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Those were the days. I was there between 72 and 79 and remember all the teachers mentioned. My sister was in the year after me which was the first to have girls in it.

Think i must have been there the same time!

***1875godsgift*** · 11-01-2010 01:28 PM

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A month or so back I read a couple of comments about Jim McArthur at Royal High School, and Maud the headmistress c.1978. I was young, but remember P.E. classes, and games of football with Jim McArthur, and endless games with tennis balls in the breaks we got akin to Ron Manager's takes on the game. In those days there were "football cards" which came with naff gum, but most pals collected Hibs players, and tried, usually vainly, to swap a Hearts, Motherwell player for one.
I think I remember some other teachers -Mr Noterangelo, Ms Alexander, Ms Sturgeon, Ms Caldwell etc.etc....and waving to Des Bremner from the bus after another swimming lesson at the Commonwealth pool, and the shock, horror of Pat Stanton leaving Hibs for Celtic.
Just memories, but thanks for rekindling them.

We had ms Christopher, i remember her belt had 3 straps instead of the normal 2!

**Gregor** · 11-01-2010 01:33 PM

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To those of us of a certain age, it will always be Jock's Lodge. Was a crime when they took the devil's shilling from Safeway.

I was there when we still had the (chuffing vast to a wee bairn) playing fields and the *coughs* grandstand, but always knew it as Northfield Broadway. I know you could reach it fi Jock's Lodge, but you had to fault the gate to get in from from fields, or risk a spike up the jacksie.

Barely a week went by without corridor to the music room being flooded and Mr Brown the janny having to unclogg the sinks full of bog paper.

***flash*** · 11-01-2010 02:03 PM

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We had ms Christopher, i remember her belt had 3 straps instead of the normal 2!

Ah a class mate. Just got to work out who you are now!!

***1875godsgift*** · 11-01-2010 02:08 PM

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Ah a class mate. Just got to work out who you are now!!

Maybe its my age but i can barely remember any names from then! This thread has dredged up some old memories though, did our janny have the unfortunate name Mr Flucker?!

***lapsedhibee*** · 11-01-2010 02:21 PM

Jeez, this board is absolutely hoaching with RightHandSidies. Isn't it time you formed your own clique, or brigade?

**p=sh** · 11-01-2010 02:25 PM

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Jeez, this board is absolutely hoaching with RightHandSidies. Isn't it time you formed your own clique, or brigade?

valid point it is moving away slightly from discussions about Hibs or even fitba.

**~~TornadoHibby~~** · 11-01-2010 02:26 PM

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Fred Scott

Wow! That name filled me with dread just then!

I remember being in a Latin class at Barnton and Fred, who was quite a weedy, bespectacled and very thin wee guy, took the hump at the big guy (Gaz McLay in case anyone might know him for "verification" purposes) who sat in front of me in that class as his hair was "too long" i.e., "sidelappers" below the point of the cheek bone! Now Gaz had been asked to get his hair cut by Fred the previous week and had not done so!

Fred took him by the lobe of his right ear and made him stand up, Gaz towering above him, before marching him out to his desk where he ........

....... produced a set of scissors and ......... .

........... cut Gaz's "sidelappers" up to "regulation length" advising him never to test him ever again as next time "it would be much worse"!

No-one stepped out of line in wee Fred's class I can tell you and that went for even the toughest of the top rugby players at the school in those days!

**~~TornadoHibby~~** · 11-01-2010 02:30 PM

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Um... I have no clue on that one... perhaps just as well. I do remember a History teacher who died, possibly by his own hand. But feel free to share....

You not thinking of a certain "technical" Dept teacher who was "involved" wi one of the dinner ladies until "found out"!??

Actually found her attractive in an unusual kind of way myself as she was a good bit older obviously!

**Craigyno1** · 11-01-2010 02:33 PM

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Also have great memories of PE lessons on the red shale pitch with Jim McArthur at Towerbank... most often in the cold driving rain straight off the sea...

My boys now don't believe that I had a footballer as a Gym Teacher... especially since i'm nae good at the game.!.!.

Still got my autograph book from the early 80s that Jim took into Easter Rd to get all the Hibs Players to sign!

You weren't very good at tennis either!!

**p=sh** · 11-01-2010 02:55 PM

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You not thinking of a certain "technical" Dept teacher who was "involved" wi one of the dinner ladies until "found out"!??

Actually found her attractive in an unusual kind of way myself as she was a good bit older obviously!

The dinner ladies were a complete laugh, I always remember the one that gave out the spaghetti "want spaghetti, son?" she looked just like one of the Monty Python guys dressed up as a woman. Hope that's not the one you had a fancy for?

**~~New Corrie~~** · 11-01-2010 03:57 PM

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remember him, didn't he used to spray when he talked? Didn't realise he was a Hibby although I can see how he'd keep that quiet since a lot of the traditions were rugby-based.

there was another Maths teacher - Kersiter I think - who didn't use a slipper but would whack your bottom with the big wooden set-square.
Probably the reason I'm heavily into S&M nowadays ;-)

Dan Cersiter....total b****d.....he was just a bully, looking back on it all now, I was puffed out getting belted and caned at RHS.

**drtony** · 11-01-2010 04:12 PM

Wow! Lots of memories of the Primary School come back. The Hibs connection was that it was there that I became a Hibs fan - something which has stuck all my life thereafter.Maybe it was seeing the concrete terrace from the bus tops, and the crow it T.V. rig on top of it, or maybe it was Jim McArthur asking us to take penalties against him and treating us to a football game with a proper ball on the grass.
I remember the rugby tops -black and black/white hoops, and the gym reference and basketball revived some long dead memories.
The tennis ball games of football in the play ground with classmates - hmm - tghe best player in the class was Craig Daniel - a Hearts fan, but others included David Scott, Angelo Dicotano, and Craig Nelson. Most were Hibs fans, with occasional Hearts fans, Stephen Kay, who had a relative who played for Hearts, and Craig Marshall -the lone Rangers fan.
I do not think any of the class went on to play for Hibs, but Mr MaArthur, the ground, and hearing stories from those who went to games, encouraged support for the team and area.
As for punishments - I remember being belted once by Ms Sturgeon for calling a potato a spud. Mr Noterangelo gave the hardest belt but I never got on his wring side. He would make us laugh with jokes..like finish the sentence, "I think Hearts are....".
Miss Christopher I remember...and could believe she had a three pronged belt. Was she not in a store room with Mr M. one day and got a reddie when discovered? I cannot recall.
Thanks for the memories, and starting me on my road to Easter Road

***CropleyWasGod*** · 11-01-2010 05:06 PM

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Maybe its my age but i can barely remember any names from then! This thread has dredged up some old memories though, did our janny have the unfortunate name Mr Flucker?!

He did. He worked on the trawlers with my Granda. (born in 1905, so never saw us win the Cup either!).

***CropleyWasGod*** · 11-01-2010 05:07 PM

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You not thinking of a certain "technical" Dept teacher who was "involved" wi one of the dinner ladies until "found out"!??

Actually found her attractive in an unusual kind of way myself as she was a good bit older obviously!

Nah... didn't know that one.

This was definitely a History guy. Boag-Henderson?

**DroitwichHibs** · 11-01-2010 05:47 PM

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I reckon you would have been in the same class as me

I think I know who you are?:notworthy:

**mim** · 11-01-2010 06:35 PM

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Does anyone remember Badger?

'Badger' was Jock Dewar.
He and Fred Scott were my Latin teachers in the Regent Road days.
Badger lived in Inverkeithing at that time.

**~~New Corrie~~** · 11-01-2010 07:51 PM

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I think I know who you are?:notworthy:

Sounds like the same class. I left in 1976 mate. Great school apart from the wee bottles of warm curdled milk, cold custard and constant thrashings with a belt. Not sure which one of the three I disliked the most.

So what was everyone? I was a Pict.

**jdships** · 11-01-2010 08:07 PM

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To those of us of a certain age, it will always be Jock's Lodge. Was a crime when they took the devil's shilling from Safeway.

From 1937 to 1949 never heard referred to as anything alse but "Jock's Lodge "

**DroitwichHibs** · 11-01-2010 08:09 PM

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Sounds like the same class. I left in 1976 mate. Great school apart from the wee bottles of warm curdled milk, cold custard and constant thrashings with a belt. Not sure which one of the three I disliked the most.

So what was everyone? I was a Pict.

I was a Scot- Green badge

What colour was the Pict one?

**HibsNibs** · 11-01-2010 08:26 PM

I was an Angle (IIRC) - light blue badge.
Who remembers 'Wee Mac' & 'Tits Gray' ?

**~~New Corrie~~** · 11-01-2010 08:29 PM

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I was a Scot- Green badge

What colour was the Pict one?

Red.....Picts rule ya bass!

***Hibs Class*** · 11-01-2010 08:54 PM

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'Badger' was Jock Dewar.
He and Fred Scott were my Latin teachers in the Regent Road days.
Badger lived in Inverkeithing at that time.

For all that Badger's preferred sport was rugby, he spent every afternoon after school in the Summer term refereeing football matches between form groups - you usually got 3-4 matches per class each year. He also kept a selection of empty wine bottles in his cupboards and used to educate pupils on selcting wines.

**p=sh** · 11-01-2010 08:59 PM

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Nah... didn't know that one.

This was definitely a History guy. Boag-Henderson?

Yip, that was the fellow.

**mim** · 11-01-2010 09:12 PM

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For all that Badger's preferred sport was rugby, he spent every afternoon after school in the Summer term refereeing football matches between form groups - you usually got 3-4 matches per class each year. He also kept a selection of empty wine bottles in his cupboards and used to educate pupils on selcting wines.

Yes, indeed.
He was also very keen on classical music and had a fantastic collection of LPs - don't know if he moved into the CD era or not.