The Liverpool Times

A founding father of Kirkby’s educational golden years

A while back, we received an email which reported on the death of Mr Master’s as many of us lads in Kirkby knew him. I’m not why we never got to confirm it, maybe it was just one of those times when we were fending off legal shenanigans on The Kirkby Times. Sadly, a lot of material has been held back through the legal troubles, as it were.

Mr Masters, or Ken, passed away on the 27th November 2005.

This particular article is a belated obituary, which will certainly grow over time. To this end we can fill in the details as we go along and celebrate the life of Mr Master’s and pay tribute to his efforts here in Kirkby.

We will also learn a lot about his life, which was extraordinary, although he himself would dismiss such talk and lay claim to being an ordinary man who just happened to be in charge of the largest boy’s school in the UK. Kirkby was lucky to have him and a lot more like him.

We could do with 1000 Ken Masters being set loose in the schools of today. Some of the teachers who served under his tenure, would testify that most pupils knew were the line was drawn.

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A True Gentleman and a Scholar

Leslie Roche was a long standing contributor to The Kirkby Times, and The Liverpool Times. We can name him now, because he passed away last night (07th March 2007) and is therefore out of harms way from the evil which awaits the truthful and honest who put their name to articles in this nation.

Les contributed dozens of articles spanning the Kirkby Times to the Liverpool Times, and I’ll go back and put his name to them. These articles range from exposing political cover ups, the injustice of Hillsborough and quite a bit of material that has a religious theme, critical of organised religion at times, but also a clear attempt to bring common-sense and reason using some of the scriptures to do so.

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