On the back row is Jim Doherty (he became Headmaster at St. Peter and Paul’s) and the Headmaster, Harry Tompkinson. On the front row is Ray Smith (he became headmaster at St. Patrick’s). Winnie Holmes and Robert McIntosh who went on to St. Peter and Pauls and then headmaster at English Martyrs in Hardwick.
Harry Tomkinson was quite a character, kept pigs in the schoolyard during the war. At dinner times we would all trail across to Portrack for dinner, then when return we would have to stand on a gym bench and he would inspect our shoes to see if they were muddy and had gone across the rough ground!
Robert McIntosh is my father and he is still around – now 97 and still at home in Fairfield!
Photograph and details courtesy of Bob McIntosh.
Thank you for sharing this picture. Harry Tomkinson was indeed a character. He would walk the corridors banging the partition walls along the way. His wife also taught at the school as did his son Joe who later taught us at St. Bede’s. Ray Smith was educated at St. Mary’s College in Middlesbrough in the same class as my dad, George Chisholm. When he became headmaster I had a fall from the climbing bars in the junior’s playground and he drove me to the hospital to get my arm fixed. Good to hear your dad is still with us!
I remember Doherty from St. Peter and St. Paul’s…….
I remember those teachers fire from St.Peter & Paul’s, now called St. Gregory’s
Great to. hear about Bob Mcintosh. I was a teacher at Harrow Gate Juniors when Bob was head at English Martyrs so I knew him through football and Town Sports. He and my old Head Jim Allen were always joking. I saw him about a year or so ago waiting for a bus into town. Best wishes to him.
Robert thanks for sharing, good to hear your father is still in Fairfield.