Sheila Marr and Alan Spence, both teachers at Ushaw Moor County school, tied the knot in March 1959. Our class presented them with some new knives and forks and they probably found that gesture quite touching!
Can anyone recall these teachers?
WB
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Mr Spence, an excellent teacher and the one more than any other I warmed to during Junior School years. In the middle/late sixties I met him socially a couple of times in the Redhills Hotel. I always recall him telling the class how finicky he was about eating cabbage, he would only eat cabbage that had been washed and prepared by his mother, I expect that would all change after he married Miss Marr the girls cookery teacher.
ReplyDeleteP.S. It may have been lettuce - seems more likely.
ReplyDeleteCome on Peter please sort your vegetables out. Was it, I wonder, cucumber?
ReplyDeleteSorry for the confusion Wilf, definately not a cucumber which is I believe a fruit not a vegetable.
ReplyDeletePeter - cucumber bears fruit and is regarded as being a fruit. So old fruit you are right yet again. Best regards.
ReplyDeleteI remember both these teachers with fond affection. Mr Spence taught me in primary school. I rember a group of us on leaving the school had a collection and bought him a Shirley Bassey LP as he was a big fan of her.
ReplyDeleteMrs Spence taught me domestic science at Ushaw Moor Secondary School.
Yes Mr Spence taught me at Ushaw Moor Primary and he was an excellent teacher. Before I went up into his year I had Miss Willett and she taught the same year as Mrs Ross. I remember there wasn't enough space in the school for these two classes and we were taught in the Baptist Chapel by them. I seem also to remember Mr Spence causing a huge stir at school by turning up in a new mini car. Before then I think he had a motorbike. Everyone said he'd won it in a competition.
ReplyDeleteyes I remember both Mr and Mrs Spence but was only taught by Mrs Spence at the secondary modern school - Domestic Science, and washing and ironing his shirts as I remember( so we knew how to do it!!!). Not my favourite teacher - that would be Ken Riddle who taught us Geography and who I still see almost daily.
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