Brin Reynolds in 1938
Like many who followed in his steps, T.B. Reynolds was himself a pupil
of the school and lived in Tudor Terrace, the son of a collier. Starting
at Park School, he next attended the Higher Grade School in Clifton St., and
then the County School, from 1904 until 1910. Here he was very active
in a variety of sports as well as being academically gifted. He entered
the University College of South Wales & Monmouthshire with a County
Exhibition and graduated from there in 1913 with a degree in French. His
sole teaching post was at the Aberdare County School where he served for
41 years, from 1913 until his retirement in 1954. His main teaching subject
was French, but he had mathematics as a second subject. He was known to
the pupils as "Brin".
He became Deputy Headmaster in 1946, and whilst deputy, he became Acting Headmaster from 1946 to 1950, when Mr. Gwilym Ambrose was seconded to Coleg Llandrindod, an emergency training college. Mr Reynolds became Headmaster in 1952.
