I can't argue with you there. Out of my meagre three O-levels, he taught me two of them - Maths and Tech Drawing. My other in Art was courtesy of Matt Bruce!
Having had George Eley as a form-master, we might have seen a different side to him? Mind you, controlling us lot you needed to have...
I was going to give 'arry Allt a mention. Going back to our Iranian classmate, on one occasion, during one of 'arry's history lessons, Farshad said something to 'arry's dislike. 'arry's reponse was to shout this at him, "I hate ****!" (rhymes with cogs)!!
Ah, the good old days!
I do indeed remember Teapot, and the stench of his class room, caused by obnoxious gases escaping from the various jars of bits of marinated animals. I don't remember the slipper though.
My main memory of this weirdo was an incident during one of his biology lessons. We went around the class...
Attendees at Varndean Boys' School in the mid-sixties will remember a teacher called "Spud" Taylor, who kept a piece of wood on his desk called the "Trouncer". It used to be part of the piano. If the elected head pupil of the class thought any of us did something in his eyes he thought wrong...