SE4 Brockley, Crofton Park, Honor Oak Park
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I owe it to L. E. Denny, Latin & English Master, deceased, to preserve a little bit of him electronically. I am talking about Brockley County Grammar School for boys one the most unhappy places on earth. Mr Denny was not in anyway responsible for that assessment by the way. |
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Harry Jankers Jarman, PE master, had a certain violent charm, but he played his role very well and was never genuinely evil unlike the vile headmaster who I do hope has by now come to a sticky end. 'I am going to thrash you McLeod' the words sliding monotonously from that slit in his face. |
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Mr Denny was an excellent teacher of Latin and English and what was more important at the time he was a superb instrument for the skilled class disrupter to play. |
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He frequently called anybody who was being a little thick a 'silly arse'. |
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I still feel extremely guilty about his retirement day. Do you remember the catch phrases in Round The Horne? He came in to the class on his last day highly emotional after many years service to find written on the blackboard 'Dennus silly arsum est'. |
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Tears rolling down his face the class fell silent he turned and slowly and quietly spoke 'You do this to a master who has been at the school for 35 years'. |
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Round the Horne suddenly filled us all simultaneously and the question was with one voice shouted back at him 'How long sir?' |
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Ive just realised I sound a bit like that chap on the Fast Show. |
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