Frederick Jack Grimble

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Frederick Jack Grimble
CGLI, ATD
Frederick Jack Grimble
Frederick Jack Grimble
Nicknames Banger
Education City of Norwich School; Norwich School of Arts and Crafts
Roles Head of Art
Years at BGS 1937-1979
Departments Art
Subjects Art
Notable work(s) VIth Form Art Class (society); designed the school's WWII Memorial lectern; military service - designed jig and tool equipment for Crusader tanks; Chairman of Lincolnshire Artists' Society and Boston Art Group; founder member of Boston Concert Club

Frederick Jack Grimble was a teacher of Art at Boston Grammar School.

"Banger" Grimble was my brother-in-law and above my computer hangs a painting of the "Lizzie" and "Annie" tied up at the wharf in South End. It was painted in the early 40s or late 30s. I also have many of Banger's oil paintings in the house, mostly painted on his visits to us in Blairgowrie, Scotland where we lived prior to coming to Canada.

Mark Parkinson (BGS 1937-1943)

Banger Grimble and his rolled up piece of corrugated cardboard with which he would aim a blow on the head of any boy not getting on with his work of art, saying "The arm of the law is long but with this it is even longer boy!" I recall some of us being paid to sit for Banger`s night school classes.

Edwin Killick (1955-1962)

Richard Broughton (BGS 1970-1977) also remembers "Banger" Grimble using a cardboard tube as a weapon to keep the attention of pupils in his art lessons. It was either brought down sharply on the desk, or on the back of the offender's the head.