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Christopher "Bomber" Nicholson [FOUND]
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 3:58 pm
by paddy
Anyone know if he is still going strong somewhere? I think he was my favourite teacher at CH - a real inspiration. Good old "Bomber Nick"
Christopher "Bomber" Nicholson
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:33 am
by Rex
Happy to say CWN is quite undiminished and still running amok in Bedford, where he was Master of the Middle School at Bedford Modern until 1998.
When he retired they brought out a small book, A Tribute to Christopher Nicholson, filled with typical tales. Contributors included David Newsome, Michael Carrington, Bob Hailey, Andrew Husband, Stan Malone, Peter Webb and John Shippen. Essential reading...
Re: Christopher "Bomber" Nicholson
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:51 am
by paddy
Rex wrote:Happy to say CWN is quite undiminished and still running amok in Bedford, where he was Master of the Middle School at Bedford Modern until 1998.
When he retired they brought out a small book, A Tribute to Christopher Nicholson, filled with typical tales. Contributors included David Newsome, Michael Carrington, Bob Hailey, Andrew Husband, Stan Malone, Peter Webb and John Shippen. Essential reading...
... though not, presumably, available at amazon.com...
Re: Christopher "Bomber" Nicholson
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:56 am
by Rex
No, alas, but I'd be happy to lend my copy if you'd like - just let me know where to send it.
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2005 1:02 pm
by paddy
Oh goodness - that's too kind. I don't think, however, that I can be trusted not to forget to send it back. I'm a bit of a dope when it comes to things like that. Procrastination is the name of the game. Hmm - but I *would* like to read it. Let me ponder... and in the meantime, thankyou very much for the offer.
CWN
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 3:39 pm
by loringa
In or around 1998, CWN was featured on Radio 4 on a series entitled (something like) 'The Nation's Best Teachers.' I think the lesson they recorded was produced especially for the show but absolutely nothing in his style and enthusiasm had changed since he taught me second form mathematics in 1973/4. Twenty five years after the only time that he taught me, I realised that the instructional style to which I aspire is based, in a large part, on his.
I think the series featured at least one other CH master; was it 'Rat' James, former head of Chemistry and one-time RAF fast jet pilot?
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 7:17 pm
by paddy
Ah - Rattie James! He wrote a proper chemistry text book, if memory serves? Didn't know about the RAF business though. He was reputed to have blown out some/all of the windows of the chemistry lab with an ill-adviced demonstration of the amusing combustion properties of hydrogen. Is that totally apocryphal?