Teaching

His daughters never quite forgave him for coming home to North Wales, and denying them a life in Trinidad, but that's what he did - to be a Geography/Geology teacher in Grove Park, then Elfed High.

Staff room tales:

• he would sneak out of lessons for a fag
• he fell asleep in one lesson and was woken up by a student, as they left
• he avoided saying 'shale and grit' for obvious reasons
• he cuffed a pupil called Woodcock, and said 'Blimey it should have been Woodhead, not .....'
• he went on a staff curry night where one teacher had been excluded, and all was revealed the next morning when she was the only one not reeking of beer and curry.

A past student came to his memorial, and said that Dad was an inspirational teacher, and that his lessons had decided his career path.