I've heard from Marian Wood that "John Flood died very suddenly at his home on 11th April. Private funeral in Uley 30th April."
If receive any more details, I can put them here.
John Flood was one of my teachers at the school. He had a wide range of interests that he was keen to share with the boys, and he used to take some of us sailing at Frampton on Sundays, which remains a happy memory. He must have been in his late 30s then; in his early 90s by now.
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I feel abashed at speaking ill of the dead but in my time (71-75) he was an absolutely brutal man who had no control whatever of his vicious temper. No doubt a result of past trauma but really not a way to deal with children. His wife wasn't much better.
Stouts Hill was in general a much more humane school than most in those long past days.
My memory of names is not so great after all these years, but wasn’t John Flood the science teacher renowned for throwing blackboard erasers and giving bicycle rides to errant pupils?
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