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We had a chemistry teacher (Mr West) who used to make fireworks and (if older-sibling folklore is to be believed) explosives. In more than one lesson he burned his eyebrows and lashes as well as his fringe off explaining how to make green or blue fireworks. Awesome guy, just wanted to get 11 year old boys into science. Also ran the gardening club which as you’d guess was 50% people who wanted to “learn how plants work sir” and 50% semi-legal lunchbreak smoko. Eventually left school into early retirement after some prick fired some rockets at him when he was bombing the hill on the way to school on his bike and he came off at speed. One of those teachers that was really missed.