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Used to get some horrible "ice balls" thrown at us in Tunny yards but not quite sure any would cause unconsciousness

Sounds like a Hodgy's coin incident...

Was that the game he got hit with a pie, then turned to argue with the fans and got a slap?

Tunny boy eh Tree how old are you ?

I'm a Tunny boy as well.

I always remember Mr Maxwell saying if you don't want to get hit by snowballs stay off the field and don't go complaining if you did get hit by ice/snowballs

Same!! thing is it was ice in the yard so it hurt more there. Although 'snow manning' only seemed to occur on the banks/fields and seemed to just descend into tripping them up and booting them as oppose to booting snow over them.

Mike maxwell certainly had a way of putting things.
Proper old school teacher.



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I was building a extension the other week and Mr Smedley (think thats the spelling ) lived next door any of you lot remember him ? or am i showing my age

Mr smedley taught me economics at the 6th form. Top bloke.

Maxwell as no6bus says was a proper old fashioned teacher. He wasn't afraid if giving you shit. I remember once skiving out to ward Jackson Park for some chips at lunch time (when there was a big cafe in there) on the way back to tunny Maxwell jumps out from behind a tree on us and shouts at us to to back to his office. Intimidating bloke like.

On the subject of tunny field I once remember it being stupidly dense fog. We went onto the field at lunch time and couldn't find our way back to the school. The fog was so thick that you could barely see your feet. Never known anything like it.

I remember towards the end of dinner someone shouting everyone to go into the tennis courts and he locked us all in so we missed 30mins or so of class

One is also a tunny boy and Maxwell was a nutter, but hay was nutjob...great days.

Tunny? Lol!

Yous should all have went to a real school like Dyke House was in the 80's

I survived Dykey - I left in 92.... with some exam passes too...

I left in 1989. Was supposed to leave in 1990 but was asked to leave early Dykey was like the Wild West then. Academically there wasn't a lot going on IMO but it certainly made you streetwise. Ive been told it was in the top 5 worst schools in the country then and looking back I can see why.

i wish my teacher had hid behind trees in parks waiting to jump out on unsuspecting schoolkids,ah the good old days

It definitely toughened you up - Survival came first, then came work.

Snowballs at dyke house ?.. ffs us Eastbourne comp lads were standing in the middle of the tin shed at 14 /15 ..

Your skills at comprehension are lacking Sussex - it talks about snowballs at Tunny - Dykey was like the wild west - it really was....

I witnessed an unnamed teacher punch a student - the student was permanently excluded, the teacher got away scot free...

Another unnamed student flashed his P**** at a teacher, was reprimanded by the head - to which he replied

"No idea why she's getting upset, its probably the biggest thing she's ever seen!"

Mrs Smedley was at Tunstall wasn't she? I think their daughter was a year below me

I think she was and i think her daughter was called Helen

Must have had more than one daughter then, I think it was Marianne, I might be wrong like it was 20 years ago when I left

There were two daughters - he was my form tutor at sixth form

He taught us sailing on a Wednesday afternoons - well taught in the loosest sense of the word - we spent more time pushing off the marina walls than sailing the boat...

What year did you leave Fensy

Aye Mrs smedley was at tunny. She was canny too. Mr smedley used to have an old nazi motorbike but not sure if he still has it. A genuinely nice funny bloke but a good lecturer too. As said above they have 2 daughters. One was in my year at tunny.

I left in 1994

Mr Smedley was at 6th form in the early 90s, but I don't know what he taught. He looked like Mr C out of the Shamen. One of his daughters was called Helen, who will be about 38 now.

We must of went to school together the Fensy i left 94.

He was at the 6th form in 1997 as he taught me economics.

Did anyone else on here go to Brierton apart from me and Poolyimp? Plenty of Pools fans there back then.

He was at sixth form in 1992

he taught Economics and was my form tutor

He also told us great tricks about making brake pads out of newspaper and old tires

And buying clothes - wearing them once but keeping the tags on, then returning them to the shop.

and to confirm what PoolieinNottingham says, we did affectionately call him Mr C....

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Taught be Business 1998/1999, top bloke, reminded me of C3PO