A photograph of two fantastic teachers from Mill Lane Secondary School on a summer day trip out to a local farm and taken around 1962/3 maybe.
I’m sure many ex pupils at that time will recognise them both. The teacher on the left is Mr Robertson who I believe took over as head. The teacher on the right is a Mr Wilkie who took us for art. I seem to remember he had a navy background during the war and told many interesting stories.
Photograph and details courtesy of David Moon.
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Two brilliant teachers, ‘Pop’ Wilkie’s advice changed my life. He saw potential where others dismissed us as factory fodder. Through I left school at 15 he encouraged me to go to night school then university.
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I went there between 1952 and 1957 hated it. School dinners were awful.
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Dear all. Just to say a big thank you for posting my photo and hope it generates some ongoing interest and comments. Best wishes David Moon.
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Yes remember them both very well great teachers and good people. Mr Robertson taught Science and Mr Wilkie Art until I left school in 1963. I remember Mr Wilkie’s war stories particularly the one about the Battle of Narvik in Norway
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Both these gentleman taught me in the late fifties. Robertson took geography and science and Wilkie for Art,
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