"when Mr Simpson had returned from military service, to teach French, the
good leasons were when we could distract him into talking about his time driving DUKS
in the Pacific?"

"Mr.Simpson("Charley"),taught French.He used to crash open the door and bellow
"Read the date".Woe betide the entire class if the date wasn't written on the
 board in French." 1958


	"Old Charlie always saw himself as the school discip , and we young "fags"
were always wary of him although in our later years he seemed to mellow."

	Teaching at Abbeydale in 1968.