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I am trying to get a photo/image of the now demolished Richard Jefferies School in Swindon....i attended it and it stood for nearly 50 years....but i cannot find any photo,link or image for it!
Incidently it stood where the New College is now and the housing estate.....anyone up to the challenge ;D

I can find this of it being demolished - though I guess it's not what you're looking for

http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/thanks-for-the-memories-r-i-p/Memory/e2cfc298-17f5-4be8-9ffc-f74f6da2951d

Cheers ghanimah...it will be better than nothing...a nice whole school seems hard to find!

When were you at RJ Leefer? I was there up to ........ I guess 1981 as I left Park in '83

Few years before,i didn't go to Park...on leaving RJ i had to go to Headlands instead of Park...i left Headlands in 77 so about 6 years before.

Ball,Sutton,Howard,Summers and Pettit were some teachers i recall from RJ.

i remember going to new college when they still had the RJ building. I was also there when then knocked it down to build the new one

Here's a pic of the fine body of people that used to try and educate you young tearaways..

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39771107@N08/4442403241/in/photolist-7LytHk

Similar to ghanimah, top row:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=richard%20jefferies%20school

Which one is you?

The men on the left hand side seem incredibly short.

You might want to try faceache, sorry facebook. Search Park Senior High School, I know what you're thinking, I want RJ pics. There is a guy who posts reams and reams of B/W & colour pictures of Swindon from 50's, 60's, 70's of everywhere and i mean everywhere really fascinating stuff. I bet you a pound to a pinch of shit that once your friends request has been accepted you'll find what you want. If not in the archive of posted pictures then asking him directly if he has something. Hope that helps.

Leefer is in this one....the kid with the quif next to the haed.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39771107@N08/4442403247/in/photolist-7LytHr-7LytHk-93PPFw-93LK6z-6ifid5-diKbnG-dXDVKi-7apyY5

Lee - have you tried any of the local "Swindon in days gone by" sort of books? I sure there was a specific chapter on schools on one of them

Herbert Petit was still there teaching biology in my day to. He was he Green Party (probably Ecology Party back then) candidate for some election during the time he taught me.

Was Forrest teaching French in your time there?

Can remember a French teacher by the name of Forrest when i was at Westbourne in the early 70s.
Right smarmy cunt.

I remember the day a classmate whacked Mr Petit during a third year biology class... This was actually the top stream as well..

If he was bald and Welsh then that might be the fellah.

Sounds  like him.
You have stirred some memories there.
Fucking hated that cunt . . skuse my French.

He was a proper scary fucker. I often wondered how he might have adjusted to the post-corporal punishment world in schools, as he was one of those teachers that kept his classes in line with a very large plimsoll (that used to sit on its own little shelf above his desk), and the occasional launching of a board rubber at kids heads.

Does anyone remember Mr Frame?  Chasing the PE class around the gym, kicking footballs as hard as he could against random kids, while having the whole class chant "Mr Frame is a nasty man, Mr Frame is a nasty man".  Wonder if he's still alive..

He was a bastard. The last thing I remember about him was him having to leave the school (and the country I think) after it being alleged he had some sort of inappropriate relationship with one of the 3rd year girls. Him regularly beating the crap out of 11 year old boys for years on end didn't seem to be a problem for anyone mind.

I think he came back for a year after being found not guilty and then emigrated.  But he was a bullying arsehole and you are bang on with what you say about him kicking the crap out of 11 year old boys.  It's funny how that kind of thing was tolerated not that long ago.  Some would say it was character building but I remember seeing some of the less sporty kids reduced to tears - character destroying.

The odd thing with teachers like that, and I experienced one at my school, they never seem to appreciate that 11 year old boys grow up and in some cases become well built 6ft 3" men with long memories. A situation that is especially amusing when you, years later, meet them in a pub having a quiet meal with their families.

Hated that man,if i remember right in his younger days he was a champion swimmer.
Deffo not a champion PE teacher.

Thanks...all sorted now thanks,did a small blog for someone and used the demolished building picture.

Mr Petit was a nasty sod at times to i seem to remember...as always thanks to you all,including Reg for the insult :D

Didn't even go to Walcot...much to common for me ;)