Teachers from Kenton Bar School old days – Mr. Pyle

Mr. Pyle (pictured elsewhere on this blog alongside a football team) was at the school at the time I was there although he never taught me and left after a short while. I do remember he had a deep and distinctive voice and seemed to be a nice bloke. I believe he lived over in the private houses near the back of Mountfield School in North Kenton – somewhere like Hawthorn Gdns. Anyway – Mr. Pyle was a doppelganger of John Alderton of “Please Sir” fame.
Some factoids about Mr. Pyle:-

• Mr. Pyle was in fact John Alderton. John was well known as a method actor who lived and breathed his parts and would spend years and years living the role. He was a teacher for 10 years before recording the first showing of “Please Sir”.
• My Pyle always had a tennis ball in his pocket or at least some sort of lump. He was very secretive about it. I now know from secret sources that this “ball” was in fact the fissionable pit of an improvised nuclear device that Mr. Pyle built in his garden shed.
• Gary Buddin and I met Mr. Pyle walking to Newcastle Airport one time and he accompanied us there and back chatting all the while – very nice fellow (apart from the atom bomb bit…..)