Perhaps sending me files directly would be best, methinks. Meanwhile, I have chopped bits of my personal site and shaped it into something a bit more generic - although it should take its own particular shape dependent on the quality and level of feedback.

My site as intended will be all about me - ho hum - but the dedicated (ironically, at this moment, also all about me) is now up.

www.quantockschool.co.uk

I am hosting this on my own virtual server, so you guys had better send in some decent stuff!

Cheers

Rick

A "virtual server" is a server that one pays for to a third party to host websites, as opposed to a normal server that one would have parked in the front lounge doubling up as a coffee table. In all other circumstances it would be an imaginary butler with a name like Jeeves.

As for search engines, I have done the standard submissions - the rest requires a dose of luck. As there are few sites on QS, I should see it reach a high position fairly soon. I hope.

Rick

Mr Jones was known as Dog Breath Geoff.  I don't think Mr Shepard had a nick name.  Mr Donam was Don Dons.  The art guy was Bender Bill - though I never heard of anything to qualify the title Bender (is that another colloquialism?).  The german cook had a nick name too as I recall.

The track through the woods started out on the route to Seven Wells.  Cross countries became very appealing as a get out option form footbal/rugby etal !  With time I should be able to remebre some more names.  The mounds were wood ant nests - those nasty big bastards that bit very hard !.

Is Jules v.poorly or dead - I can't make out from what you guys have been writing.  A sad loss to humanity I think !  Meeowww !

Mr Burgess  aka Bungle - instigator of Computer lessons.  Initially on MSXs, then Amstrads.  There were a couple of Spectrums around too.  Bungle was only ever one lesson ahead of us as well - or less!

Mr Caldwell married another of the teachers (unhelpfully I only remember her as Mrs Caldwell !)  and she stayed on for a while until about 83/4.  Mr Yates - drama teacher.  Mr Robins (he of the flairs) lasted about a year, and was Psychos predecessor.

During my incarceration of 75-80 the staff list was fairly stable. I have a couple of questions for anyone that may be able to answer them :

Is the 'Mr Caldwell' referred to here the famous 'mad mike' who used to teach maths ? If so I have some interesting insights to add !

How did the nickname enus come into common parlance ? Mr Shepherd was usually referred to as 'PJ', an imaginative reference to his initials. Amongst some of the more bizarre knowledge he imparted were gems such as how to write the word 'minimum' using straight lines only at a 45 degree angle

Indeed, I also believe "Enus" was derived from the technically correct term for the extraneous element of the male genitalia. The rather unfortunate mole between his eyes also earned him the monicker 'Cyclops' (sigh... how original...)

Rick

I think Mike is correct, it is 'Coldwell'. He used to be married when i was there but patently to somebody else. His wife then was of ginga descent and troubled with visionary problems that required lenses cut from the glass that protects the crown jewels ! They had a son who would have been about 5 or 6 back in 77 of which Mike was inordinately proud. Tales of his sons prowess at school were obvious pre cursors to tennis and readers digest yarns. We had a band back then, forget bass 'n drum this was the classic Quantock manifestation of guitar 'n biscuit tin with obligatory stand in 'yelper' employed. After bashing out half of a Deep Purple number Mike sauntered out with said youngster, obviously to protect his slight ears from the aural cacophony. 

Another classic coldwell-ism was the strange dance he performed at Marsh Mills on hearing that fleming were ahead in the 3rd year cricket house game. He heard the score of 52 and was sublimely indifferent to how many wickets had fallen, or how that fitted in with the strange equation that they call cricket. Bless !