I.J.Beeching (Physics) Download a RealAudio file (25k) and listen to I.J.B. lecturing on the formation of an image by an optical system.     He was the brother of the infamous Dr. Beeching, who decimated the railways in the 1950s - but we didn't hold that against him; and I believe he had worked on radar during World War 2. I think he taught Physics well - I always found his explanations very clear: and he gave me (when asked) one of the most useful pieces of advice I had while I was there - that I probably wasn't suited to go on to University. In retrospect, this was exactly right - I did much better going straight into sound engineering and operations (I was supposed to be going to Southampton University to read 'Light Electrical Engineering', which presumably is an old-fashioned name for Electronics. I wouldn't have been up to it, and I wouldn't have enjoyed it - and on the one A-level I finished up with, I wouldn't have got in anyway!).		R.H.Thornton (Maths): also, from the later fifties, Headmaster of the Junior School (the first two years, from 11-13).Well-liked, with a robust (though not aggressive) style (I once heard him from a good 50 yards away informing a class "I told you not to use logs!")
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