Southport High School for girls

[Binkie]

Isn't there anyone out there at all who used to go to this school? I seem to remember at least 600 other poor sods who were there with me....enduring lessons from Miss Finch, Miss Costello, Mrs Bennett et al. WHERE ARE YOU ALL?

[Wrighty]

Unfortunately I was one of the other poor sods who attended this school.

I was there from about 1965 to 1970. (I'm 49 now)

Can't remember any good bits about it!

[Chuluota]

left in 1988

[joy-m-l]

I was there from 1982-87. Had quite a good time and still remember Mrs Chamberlain, Miss Careless, Mr Lennon, Mr +Mrs Jones, anyone else?

[The Leeds]

Never heard of it, but according to Friends Reunited, there are loads of ex pupils from that school on there.

Friends Reunited - Search Results for "Southport High School"

(I think you need to log in before you can access it)

[lynnament]

This woman was a complete *****! She terrorised her pupils and put most of us off Latin for life!!

Does anyone remember Miss Ormerod who taught Scripture?

Isn't there anyone out there at all who used to go to this school? I seem to remember at least 600 other poor sods who were there with me....enduring lessons from Miss Finch, Miss Costello, Mrs Bennett et al. WHERE ARE YOU ALL?

[Jason II]

This woman was a complete *****! She terrorised her pupils and put most of us off Latin for life!!

Firstly, I did NOT attend Greenbank High School!
But my daughter did, and the following tale makes me wonder how many pupils were put off a subject for life because of a crettin of a teacher.
Parents Evening for the Options Year came up, and my daughter collected the appointments, and if memory serves me correctly you would be allocated two five minute slots, then a five minute breather - then two five minute slots ... throughout the evening.
Guess which important teacher was running about seven or eight minutes late - Maths. Following them I had the Physics Teacher, and I have forgotten her name.
Arrived at the Physics Teachers desk, to which she arrogantly said 'You are four minutes late,.....'
I replied 'If your Maths teacher had got their sums right, I would have been on time'.
When I got home I asked my daughter if she was thinking of dropping Physics --- YES!

[pedoja]

I went to The GHS.

Mrs Edwards (Geography), Miss Worthington, Miss Barney (P.E.), Miss Ezard (Headmistress), Miss Brown (Spanish) plus loads of others.... will have to think!

[toothache]

I was at SHS from 1950 - 57 and thought it was wonderful.
Miss Ezard was Head and other teachers included Miss Twiss (for French) whom I adored - also Mme Danson, Mrs Mansfield and Miss Garnett.

There was Miss Murdoch who terrified me but got me through
A' level Maths - (I had to work hard as I was the only one of my year group doing it although in the second year another girl who had stayed on for a 3rd year joined me.)
Other Maths teachers were Miss Southern, Miss Cheetham and Mrs Whiteman then just as I was leaving Nora Melling (who had been a Head Girl) came back to join the dept.

Deaf Miss Finch took us for Science - well for A' level Chemistry and General Science up to O'level.
Miss Wareing and Miss Hoult took History, Mrs Wormald and Mrs Edwards (who died a couple of years ago) taught Geography, Miss Harrison and Miss Rodgers - Art, Mrs Bennett Mrs Round and Miss Hosker - Biology.
Games teachers were Miss Wilmott, Miss Ramsden, Miss Jolly and Miss Barney. We had quite a walk to the games field and I have no ides now where it was - probably houses or flats now - as are both the school buildings of course.
Miss Ezard retired a year or two after I left and Greenbank opened, the head being Miss Evans I think.

Latin was taught by Miss Wells and Miss Mallinson who wore falsies. She used to lean on her desk and one day it fell off the dais - so did she and "they" slipped - one went waistwards the other towards her shoulder. For ages at playtime you could hear the chant:
"Mallibus sittibus at the deskororum
Deskibus collapsibus
Malli on the floorum."

Miss Schofield taught English and Miss Kennedy too I think - she was in charge of the first 2 years when we were housed where Vernon Court is now on Scarisbrick New Road. After 2 years we went up to the main building on the corner of Sc New Rd and Sefton Street.
Dozy Dora (Miss Hoult - forget her married name) also took R.E. There was a Miss Morgan who came to teach English around 1953/4 replacing Miss Hicks.
Philomena Brown arrived around the same time to introduce Spanish into the curriculum and Miss Willliams taught music and wrote a school song which was incredibly difficult to sing.

Miss Alexander and Miss Edge did Dom Sci - Miss A - needlework, Miss E - cookery. She was replaced later by Ceciley somebody whose name I can't remember as I didn't do Dom Sci higher up school.
I was very happy at school and look back with fond memories. My year group have had several reunions in the past few years -the next one being Friday 6th November 2009

[Nick2]

I was at SHS from 1950 - 57 and thought it was wonderful.
Miss Ezard was Head and other teachers included Miss Twiss (for French) whom I adored - also Mme Danson, Mrs Mansfield and Miss Garnett.

There was Miss Murdoch who terrified me but got me through
A' level Maths - (I had to work hard as I was the only one of my year group doing it although in the second year another girl who had stayed on for a 3rd year joined me.)
Other Maths teachers were Miss Southern, Miss Cheetham and Mrs Whiteman then just as I was leaving Nora Melling (who had been a Head Girl) came back to join the dept.

Deaf Miss Finch took us for Science - well for A' level Chemistry and General Science up to O'level.
Miss Wareing and Miss Hoult took History, Mrs Wormald and Mrs Edwards (who died a couple of years ago) taught Geography, Miss Harrison and Miss Rodgers - Art, Mrs Bennett Mrs Round and Miss Hosker - Biology.
Games teachers were Miss Wilmott, Miss Ramsden, Miss Jolly and Miss Barney. We had quite a walk to the games field and I have no ides now where it was - probably houses or flats now - as are both the school buildings of course.
Miss Ezard retired a year or two after I left and Greenbank opened, the head being Miss Evans I think.

Latin was taught by Miss Wells and Miss Mallinson who wore falsies. She used to lean on her desk and one day it fell off the dais - so did she and "they" slipped - one went waistwards the other towards her shoulder. For ages at playtime you could hear the chant:
"Mallibus sittibus at the deskororum
Deskibus collapsibus
Malli on the floorum."

Miss Schofield taught English and Miss Kennedy too I think - she was in charge of the first 2 years when we were housed where Vernon Court is now on Scarisbrick New Road. After 2 years we went up to the main building on the corner of Sc New Rd and Sefton Street.
Dozy Dora (Miss Hoult - forget her married name) also took R.E. There was a Miss Morgan who came to teach English around 1953/4 replacing Miss Hicks.
Philomena Brown arrived around the same time to introduce Spanish into the curriculum and Miss Willliams taught music and wrote a school song which was incredibly difficult to sing.

Miss Alexander and Miss Edge did Dom Sci - Miss A - needlework, Miss E - cookery. She was replaced later by Ceciley somebody whose name I can't remember as I didn't do Dom Sci higher up school.
I was very happy at school and look back with fond memories. My year group have had several reunions in the past few years -the next one being Friday 6th November 2009

My eldest sister was at the High School during your era......i.e 1952/1958.

[toothache]

Don't think I knew a Miss Worthington, Pedoja but I remember the others you mentioned so I might have forgotten her. What did she teach - and was it between 1950 and 1957?

[toothache]

I have just remembered, the Dom Sci teacher was Cecily Gambrill, Miss Patterson taught Physics and Maths, Miss Shanley, Music (she was a flautist) and Miss Cheetham became Mrs Pennington. There was an older music teacher too who came part time and used to teach at St Wyburn's and also at Wigan Girls' High - where I taught for a couple of years. Her name was Phyllis but I can't recall her surname.

[sofia]

I appreciate this is an old thread, but I've been trying for years to track down my Spanish teacher, Marie/Maria Leech/Leach. I attended between 1977-1982.

I've done the friends reunited search, facebook etc and can find no trace of her. I believe she may have gone to live in Spain??

Does anyone else remember her or know of her whereabouts?

[norwichpam]

Isn't there anyone out there at all who used to go to this school? I seem to remember at least 600 other poor sods who were there with me....enduring lessons from Miss Finch, Miss Costello, Mrs Bennett et al. WHERE ARE YOU ALL?

Anyone still out there following this? I had a sudden notion today to find out about Miss Costello. I was at the Highschool from 1958 to 1965 (Pamela Crimmins) and Miss Costello described me to my mother as "the black sheep of the class". She obviously thought I disrupted her lessons. How ironic that years later I have been learning Latin with U3A and to my great delight we have just started ancient Greek. What a shame that is was never possible to share my enthusiasm with Miss Costello although I remember than sixthformers said she was quite a different teacher for A-Levels.

[prasnee]

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