Mr. Gaukrodger- Housemaster and Maths
Mr. Gaukrodger, was the Housemaster for Lonsdale House and had been at Tulketh since 1964. He were one of the four Heads of House who were tasked with your pastoral care you could say. In fairness that was true. We nicknamed them "the four magistrates" amongst other colourful synonyms. He taught Mathematics, Technical Drawing, Religious Education and Humanities. In fact in the second year he taught our form group Religious Education which was just for one hour lesson a week. Sadly I do not recall anything from those lessons. I do not think anybody followed on in the final two years with the subject at GCSE level. There were not much chance of any our form group following a theological path in our future lives. Mr. Gaukrodger was nicknamed Father Abraham after the leader of The Smurfs a pop novelty group from late 1970’s. He had been a teacher at Frenchwood County Primary School before joining Tulketh and his wife was a teacher a...