"HE WAS AN IRISH INTERNATIONAL PLAYER WHO COACHED AT COLSTON I THINK HE GOT IN TROUBLE MOLESTING SOME KIDS ?"

"Yeah thats him.. he was still there in 1972 when i started Colston... it took him ages to get up he would get to the board and spend forever neatly writing one word ..when he finished the bell rang... someone in my class nicked his hat from his desk and put it on..he didnt even notice..but he was well gone by this period..Auld Shan the cave man....my sister had him and she's ten years older than me...god know how he lasted so long..mind you wee cagney (Mr Fraser English) was also still around early70s..so there were a few dinosaurs"

"jean .think i've replied to this somewhere else before but the king they're on about was a music teacher who was a good teacher and no molester of any kind except maybe the keys on the piano.his fellow teacher in music was miss syme who was the most horrific woman along with my primary one teacher at elmvale mrs pitt to ever teach at all .both hated children with a passion .in the music class mr king would play the death march on the piano if someone interrupted his class but he could also crack the odd one liner as well and i think he became ahead teacher before the school closed .he can be seen in the teachers photo of colston"

"jmc41 Mr Crawford was a fabulous teacher he was also my clssical studies teacher as well he was a miniture Billy Connolly figure to me & he always raised his monobrow when he was making a point of interest or when he was warning you that you better stop talking LOL I can see that science teacher as I type as he was my brothers registration teacher & his class was next door to my regie teacher Mr Clarke who was also a science teacher from the north of England.I think you & I were at Colston at the same time also JMC 41 was there when I was,we actualy went to both Elmvale & Colston together always in the same circle of pals but never got together as pals untill we bumped into each other on this site ,I met him & his lovely wife & kids when I was home a few months ago his home faces onto where the old C Block classrooms were."

"I remember the assistant head was a woman who always wore a black gown, with a strap over her shoulder. I got six of the belt from her for 'plunking' school! The other teacher I remember was a Mr Campbell, think he was a French teacher, he also wore a black gown, belted the whole class because he went out and came back in to find that some of the class was misbehaving. I remember an algebra teacher with really bad acne scarring, he was nice enough and a Classical Studies teacher with a monobrow, very hairy, he was a great teacher. Maybe thats the Mr Crawford you have mentioned? The worst punishment he dished out was sending you out the class to stand in the hall. There was also a male science teacher with a twisted hand, I remember that the boys and girls got separated for sex education, which he took. Our 'sex' education mainly consisted of learning about stamens and pistils in flowers, very useful! Lol. I went to Colston in 72/73."

"i'm sorry but if yous old folks can cast yer minds back tae the mid 70's it wis mr laird that wis the classics teacher .i remember well the day he belted me .i got 87%for my exam results and my mate craig elvin asked me to count his exam paper but i was still counting my own and i have to admit i was a bad boy and swore and was heard by not only the whole class but by mr laird .after promising to belt the 6 of us that sat together i had to admit that it was me ,he then proceeded to humiliate me by telling me i could use that language in the playground but not in his class,telling me this whilst tapping his belt under my chin and also tapping me on the head .and then telling me that i'd done well in the exam .but if i thought i'd got away with it .no chance .3 of the belt and 3 good ones as well.and to rub it in he was a partick thistle fan as well .and linda i 'm sure his mum lived in galloway st or the tenements on springburn rd between cairn st and huntershill st "