Here I am Folks and Friends reunited

Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

I bet the very ‘naughty,’ ‘Miss Well-Whacked Bum,’ Lisa got an abundance of Christmas presents, including lots of new lingerie!!
Talking of Lisa, I did see your little post asking where I’d gone! THANK YOU for your concern!!!! And I thank you, too, A.L, for offering your answer.

May I say to you both, Lisa and A.L, a thank you for all the splendid fun during 2016, and again a Happy and successful New Year. Also this is extended to the many other wonderful members that we have.
Now let me get down to business:

Friends Reunited.

I spent a brilliant day a few days back, looking through all my saved ‘Friends Reunited’ posts. I have just about every post relating to CP of females in schools, and it’d been quite a time since I’d read them last.
There were many I thought worthy of debating on here, but, for tonight, one in particular. I find this utterly amazing, but, I’m sorry, I really do have to question it’s authenticity. See below:

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I have yet to check out if this school is a state school or a private one. This I shall do after I have posted this. But for me, I simply cannot imagine any state school in any decade from the fifties upwards daring to request a pupil to lower their underwear, unless they wanted big trouble! Yes, yes, I realise that it’s a female deputy head dealing with a girl. not a male dealing with a girl.
I think, too, it’s worth pointing out that Heather Nicholson is not claiming to have been slippered herself, only that the deputy head thought nothing of whacking on the bare.

Just checked it out.
South Holderness School is definitely a state school. It’s still in Station Road, but it’s now called ‘South Holderness Technology College.’ It looks a fantastic school. Brilliant campus and pretty good exam results, especially sixth form ‘A’ level results.

I’m sorry to be a spoil-sport, and I know we are talking about late sixties-1970, but I simply have to dismiss Heather Nicholson’s claims of bare bottom sliperings by Mrs Pogson for girls.
Over to you, people!
Any thoughts?
Thank you,
Paul.
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Jan 08, 2017#3
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jan 09, 2017#4
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hi Paul,
Welcome back and my very best wishes to you for the year ahead. I was becoming a little concerned when you went missing thinking your blood pressure had incapacitated you completely????. Thank you for your Christmas and new year wishes and yes this very naughty girl (I’m not naughty, am I????) did get some lovely presents including some very naughty lingerie ????????….shush????.

In response to your friends reunited post I’m not sure if these events happened or not. It dose seem rather doubtful. If it did occur then I think it was totally inappropriate. My views on the removal of clothing to administer corporal punishment remain the same as they have always been.

Very pleased to see you back again.

Lisa.
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Jan 09, 2017#5
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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There is a Facebook group “Ex-Students and Staff of South Holderness School” which has references to Mrs Pogson. Here is a selection (I have deleted the name of the poster so that this group will not turn up if they ever Google their own names). All are female posters:

‘I started 1970 and I remember them Mrs pogsons blue hair’

‘a few names i remember from 1960 Mrs House.MissJohnson. MrJohn Rotherham .Mr Mrs Jackson.Mr Ferriss Mr O sullivan Mr Frith Mrs pogson Mrs davies i hope these will jog a few memories’

‘ah mrs pogson she of the ever changing hair colour. do youy remember sam ellis general science?’

‘Miss Johnson took us for needlework. There were two deputy heads when I was there (67 – 72) Mrs Pogson, but who was the man? Remember when he left to be a head at a Blackpool school ( I think) he got a toy bucket with sand in it!’

‘ I can only remember Mrs Pogson with her blue hair…’

‘I remember Mrs Pogson. At assembly she sat very upright on the stage with Mr Frith (nickname Fagin) and Mr Carter? ‘

And so on. The only memory is of her hair colour. There are a couple of mentions of a slipper being used (not by Mrs P), including ‘Anyone remember miss sturgess p e teacher tall loved herself that witch gave me the slipper across my hand for laughing at her lol still bear the scars pmsl xx’
I think the case is proven that the FRU post is fiction.
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Jan 09, 2017#6
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Quite so! Superb research! It is good to see you posting.</div>
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Jan 10, 2017#7
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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It has been drawn to my attention that the punishment technique supposedly attributed to Mrs Pogson was claimed in this post to have been used on one of our former contributors.

(I mention this cautiously for reasons which will become apparent upon perusing the thread containing that post. But perhaps the post was not intended seriously.)
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Jan 11, 2017#8
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jan 12, 2017#9
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Thanks for the responses to my FR post.
Hello, A.L. Your welcoming me back into the fold is appreciated. I wasn’t away too long. I had important tasks to attend to like keeping my canes pliable. Lisa is quite a tough sixth former you know!!!! God knows how many canes have bitten the dust thus far!
Thank you, A.L, for kindly drawing my attention to the fact that the school is not in Lancashire. Yes, I did spot its location from the school website. I think my list of Friends Reunited posts confirm that, too. Hull is indeed a proud holder of a European City of Culture award. It’s claimed there is much to see and offer there. But a report on a sports programme on Sky Sports said that if Hull City gets relegated this season it’ll be massive blow to the local economy.
Your theory that it could have been a case of girls slippered by the blue rinsed Mrs Pogson, and indeed their chosen underwear might have been minuscule. Then of course, it might have got bandied about the school that it was a bare bottom. Mmmm, yes, but if such talk was doing the rounds, wouldn’t the media and the LEA get hold of it in time?
Although I initially said that I disbelieved Heather Nicholson’s claim, the post that she submitted to Friends Reunited doesn’t SMACK (No pun intended) of a ‘spanko’ a ‘fisherman’ or a fantasist. Heather is brief and matter of fact. Whereas any of the aforementioned tend to give a little too much detail, start saying things like, ‘Mrs Pogson would slowly and methodically lower our underwear to our knees and step back to look at our bottoms. BLA BLA BLA.’ They tend to add the kind of phraseology and expression of a spanking fiction writer. A ‘fisherman’ fishes for information, rather like the girl (or was it a girl???) who posted on the Bacons page asking, quote: ‘Was I the only one to get it on the bum from the headmaster? What was his name?’ That person is looking for female ex- pupils at Bacons to write back and say, “No, I got it on the bum, too, from Mr Ing.”
There are a couple more like that which I will dig out for us to debate. But one I recall is a girl claiming she got spanked on the bare for stealing a Mars bar from the tuck shop…….’A Mars a day helps you work rest, play and spank.’
As you point out, A.L, we shall never know for certain, but the more I think of it, there is something that tells me this person (Heather) genuinely believes that Mrs Pogson slippered on the bare. She is probably wrong, but I’m not sure if she has knowingly made the thing up
Hello, Lisa. How are you?. Lovely to hear from you. Ahhh, so you did get some new lingerie. I hope some new questions will arise for me to ask you about your caning.
Yetanotheranotherlurker!!! Great work. Happy New Year to you. I will pop over and take a look at that. Lots of references to the blue hair. Also, I noticed a hand slippering! Very interesting. I thank you, kindly. It was excellent research and I thank you for sharing it with us.

One wonders if it’s worth trawling Facebook more and putting in names of old whacking schools and see what can be found of a similar ilk. It’ll never be Friends Reunited, but I think it’s worth a look.
Thank you to Alan Turling for drawing out attention the mass slippering.
I shall forward a few other FR posts that get me wondering, hopefully over the weekend
Thank you, all…………..behave, Lisa!!!
Paul

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Jan 13, 2017#10
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jan 13, 2017#11
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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The history teacher in my first year at grammar school used a slipper on the hand, perhaps seven or eight times during the year. There was also one occasion when he threatened to use the slipper on the bottom instead, as a warning of a more severe punishment available if behaviour didn’t improve.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before.
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Jan 14, 2017#12
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jan 14, 2017#13
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hello, all,
It’s Paul.
Just a very quick response, in the main to A.L, who raised the issue of how unusual it probably was to slipper on the hands.

There are quite a few such instances on ‘Friends Reunited.’
Here is just one example:

Avondale High School, Heathbank Road, Cheadle Heath (FR have listed it as in the Stockport area).

Student: Susan Mitchell 1975.

“Mr Wilson: I remember he would take you into the stockroom if you did not behave in form time and you would get the pump on your hand.”
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Of course, Susan Mitchell is not suggesting that she actually got it herself.

But wait, wait wait,……………………….
At the very same school, here is another little oddment. Now with this one, we have to wonder was it just done in jest or as a jokey-lightheated kind of thing during classes? Bit of a laugh, perhaps? I’m unsure. I mean come on guys, could this have been for real??? Read on!

Student: Stella Thomson 1986.

“Mr Lamb: Yeah – I do remember Mr Lamb, but I don’t feel sorry for him – he was totally round the twist. Instead of caning – he used to use a WELLINGTON BOOT to hit people on the bum with. (Namely me a few times).
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Well, well, what says my fellow members. It seems that Stella is suggesting that Mr Lamb (BAA!) was a bit of a ‘nutter.’ So maybe it was serious punishment for him, but perhaps it was pretty much regarded as a joke?

At the same school again:

Student: Andrea Howard 1986.

” Mrs Walters and Mrs Urwin. Ouch!
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I realise I slightly went off the point, but rest assured, there are quite a few instances of ‘Hands out, girl,” slipper posts.
Thank you again, A.L Also, a mention to Alan Turling for such wonderful contributions to this thread. Thank you.

I must dash….. That badly behaved girl, Lisa, is due to report outside my door for yet AMOTHER incident involving a boy. MY GOODNESS ME!!!
Paul.
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Jan 14, 2017#14
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Another_Lurker: It was fifty-five years ago, so it’s all a bit hazy. I know that it happened, and I know the names of the teacher and the recipient, but I can no longer visualise the incident.

I can, though, remember the occasion not long afterwards when the teacher went to smack another boy’s leg and found that he was wearing long trousers, so he gave him the strap (a trouser belt) on his bottom instead. I remember the second occasion because it became fairly notorious in the school; this teacher had not used his belt for quite a while. The point is, though, that I do have a visual memory of this second event, and I fee sure that the teacher’s stance was such that he was about to lift the trouser leg with one hand before smacking with the other (or at any rate that would have been his intention).
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Jan 14, 2017#15
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

There may I suspect be several copies of a post from me to this thread in the moderation queue. I was using a beta version of a browser which had just been updated and presuming that this was now not working correctly and that was why the post didn’t appear I retrieved it and tried various other browsers without success.

I conclude that either I am banned or everybody now has to go through the moderation queue. If the latter, sorry for the extra work, I’d be most grateful if you’d delete duplicate copies.

I had several more posts planned for tonight, but as I’m not happy posting when I don’t see the post appear I’ll suspend operations and see what happens tomorrow.

Regards,

Another_Lurker</div>
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Jan 14, 2017#16
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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<div style=”width:100%;background-image:url(“/realm/A_L_123/A_L_trg.gif”);”>The mystery deepens! Presumably I am not banned and the preceding post from me appears to have gone through ok. I’ll try the ‘lost’ post again. Here goes!

H’mm! Failed again. What on earth is wrong? The posts are previewing correctly and being replaced by the index when ‘Respond’ is pressed but then simply not appearing in the thread. Have Network54 altered something so that previously acceptable HTML/CSS now causes posts to disappear into limbo? I’ll try some likely changes in that area and see what happens. Here goes!

Failed again. Shall I just give up? Hell no, lets try the post with all HTML/CSS except the very basic stuff eliminated.

Hello Paul,

Thank you for the further detail on slippered hands. If done hard quite a painful punishment I would imagine.

The curious case of Mr Lamb and the wellington boot. (A calf or knee length one piece rubber boot without laces for use in damp or waterproof conditions if the term is not familiar outwith the UK): I would guess that Mr Lamb was an advocate of what I call the ‘bread and circuses’ school of classroom management. Such teachers were usually very good teachers as the technique was not for the faint hearted and demanded supreme self-confidence. Quite often they were regarded by pupils as a little deranged. Stella Thompson says that Mr Lamb was ‘totally round the twist’. Children, like some primitive tribes and peoples, often accord a certain status to perceived derangement and respect it. Stella says that she was not sorry for Mr Lamb.

What do I mean by the ‘bread and circuses’ school of classroom management? The Roman Emperors kept the Roman mob in check by providing them with free food and free entertainment such as slaughter in the arena or chariot races, hence bread and circuses. In much the same way some teachers entered into an unwritten contract with their classes that in return for good behaviour and concentration on the matter in hand a certain amount of entertainment would be provided if anyone chose to disrupt the learning process or otherwise step out of line,

I encountered a supreme practitioner of the technique at secondary school. He hurled widow poles javelin fashion to abruptly awaken those failing to concentrate. Nobody ever got hit by the missile, but the startled reaction of those targeted as it whistled past in close proximity greatly amused the rest of the class who had followed its progress from the teacher’s hand. An English Master, he had certain words which he insisted everyone in his classes had to be able to spell. His popularity was such that 16 year old boys cheerfully sat and chanted in unison the sacred words and spelled them out letter by letter at the end of every class.

Those who merited serious disciplinary action had a large letter ‘Z’, the mark of Zorro, chalked on their foreheads in red chalk and this was required to remain in place for the rest of the school day, much to the amusement of classmates, and indeed the rest of the school. Nobody knew what happened if you removed it as nobody did. It was almost a badge of honour. A brilliant teacher, he was greatly loved and respected but was regarded as completely mad by pupils. He went on to become Headmaster of a large and prestigious ancient Grammar School in the north of England.

But back to Mr Lamb. I would guess that his ‘bread and circuses’ party trick was to require offenders to come out to the front of the class and bend over, doubtless with much emphasis on correct position and presentation of the bottom. With the victim in position the wellington boot would then be ceremoniously produced and gently swung by its top through a vertical arc so as to simulate a light kick, or kicks, with the toe to the victim’s bottom. Hilarity on the part of the rest of the class (children love the predictable old joke), some embarrassment for the unfortunate offender, nobody hurt, contract to entertain satisfied, and a refreshed restart to the learning task in hand.</div>
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Jan 15, 2017#17
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jan 15, 2017#18
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Feb 15, 2017#19
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

If you recall, I started this ‘FR’ thread on the 8th January, having looked through my collection of FR posts. I submitted the post made by Heather Nicholson (1970) from South Holdnerness School, with her claim that the headmistress, Mrs Pogson, thought nothing of taking a size 8 plimmy to a bare backside. It left most of us pretty sure this was an unlikely claim, certainly in a state school.

I promised that I’d did send a follow up or two that mention ‘bare.’ How about this one:

School: St Margaret’s School for Girls. Earls Avenue, Folkestone.

Student: Barbara Thomas

Year: 1981

Post headed: ‘As Ros says…’

Message:
Navy cloaks to the ground and berets on your head. Ghastly music lessons of singing, with girls one by one crawling out under hall chairs to exit unseen by teacher. “Getting the slipper” by Dudley Hassan on bare flesh.
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Well, well, well, what do members say about this one? True? False? I certainly have no other posts relating to this school that mention ‘slipper on bare flesh’ by a Dudley Hassan. Obviously this is man and I’m assuming it’s a private school. And took place nine years before the South Holderness claim.

Could we take ‘bare flesh’ to mean on the ‘bare legs?’ ‘Bare calves’ or ‘bare upper legs, even?’ Surely Barbara Thomas is not referring to bare hands! Hands were always bare.

Looking forward to your thoughts.
A.L, how are you?? Where is that naughty Lisa hiding?

Thank you,

Paul
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Feb 15, 2017#20
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Hello, again,
Here’s Paul with another one from FR. It appears to be a ‘bare bummer.’ I would say this one is unquestionably true, but it seems this school, under the leadership of a ‘RJF,’ who I assume was the headmistress, was a tad harsh. Reading the post, it seems the punitive regime set by ‘RJF,’ bonded the girls.
Was it incidents like this that fed the anti-school CP brigade, who in time, won the day..
Have a read!
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School: Linden Hall School for Girls. Church Lane, Broadstairs

Student: Cressida Judd.

Year: 1965

Headed: ‘Life at LHS with RJF.’

Message:

I was very interested in Pnina Nitzen’s notes and although I agree with her bitter memories of ‘RJF,’ my personal experience was more ‘bitter-sweet.’ Because of her (RJF) unpredictability and sarcastic punishments, we were all united against one adversary; we therefore forged strong friendships through a common bond, which saw us through our stay at LHS. We looked after one and other and I don’t recall one case of bullying throughout my five years of boarding.

Looking back, I realise she ruled with total autonomy and would brook no censure or criticism from any quarter. Any misdemeanour (real or imagined) was punished, very often with an over the top punishment, I was once summoned from my bed for talking after lights out and told to “make a joyful noise unto the Lord in the common room.” (i.e – learn that psalm in full and recite it to her, word perfect, before being allowed back to bed – a place I didn’t reach until gone midnight).

Another time, again for talking after lights out, I was made to stand in front of a circle of prefects, where I had to bend over, my pyjama trousers were unceremoniously pulled down and I received numerous slaps from her with a slipper – I was mortified. I never got over that one until all the prefects who witnessed my humiliation had left the school
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Your comments are most welcome.

Thank you,

Paul.
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Feb 15, 2017#21
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I have done a little research
It seems St Margaret’s School for Girls, Earls Avenue, Folkestone, where Barbara Thomas claimed Dudley Hassan ‘slippered bare flesh,’ closed down in 1967. The main school building is now a set of luxury flats.
However there is still a website for old girls Its called SMOGS. Is found at:

smogs.org.uk

Here is part of the welcoming paragraph from the homepage:

‘Welcome to the SMOGS website for Old Girls and Staff of St Margaret’s School, Folkestone, Kent. The School existed from 1890 to 1967. Amazingly, several hundred of its pupils and staff keep in touch, and many of them meet regularly through SMOGS. We supply directories of names and updates, and organise annual reunions. The book on the history of the School, now sold out, is published on this website.’

There is a biography of ‘old girls,’ on which Barbara Thomas is not listed. There is also a missing pupil page and Barbara is not on that either. HOWEVER! HOWEVER! There was a further directory, and Barbara Thomas is most certainly listed on that! So yes, she was a pupil. I think that makes it more likely her ‘bare flesh’ claim could be true.
Regarding the said member of staff, Dudley Hassan, his wife was headmistress for many a year and was widely respected and cherished by the school and its girls.. Mr Hassan’s biography is very interesting to say the least, but the last part of it cannot be read as a photograph of him is obscuring the next. It seems her taught drama and classics.
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Regarding the other school, Linden Hall School for Girls, Church Steet, Broadstairs, where Cressida Judd had those pyjama trousers unceremoniously pulled down by RJF, If it existed, it simply must have closed down without trace. No ‘old girls club’ for this school. I found a list of all Kent schools, and there was noting. The only two Linden Hall schools I found was one in Japan and one in Pennsylvania. Oh, well
Perhaps a more extensive search?

Thank you.

Paul
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Feb 15, 2017#22
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Feb 16, 2017#23
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Was not Dr. Crotch very near the mark when in ‘Childhood Dreams’ he had it thus?:

All Faking Females eventually give up and you won’t hear from them again because they have given up.
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Feb 16, 2017#24
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Feb 17, 2017#25
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hello Paul, and A.L.
I’m still here but hopefully I’m not naughty????.
I really do hope we are not going back to the public caning scenario again with me in the starring role. I seem to remember I got into trouble for playing along with the humour it seemed to be generating at the time.

Things seem to have gone a little quiet just lately on here but, I have been rather busy so far this year. I do hope your all well. Glad you remember me Paul.

Lisa.
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Feb 17, 2017#26
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Feb 19, 2017#27
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hello, A.L
Thank you for your wonderful comments and research regarding my FR post.
I shall endeavour to respond this week when things settle down at this end.

Ah, and Lisa returns. Great to hear from you, Lisa. Missed you lots. Stay on line with your old buddies, here!

Paul
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Feb 26, 2017#28
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

It’s Paul:

A special ‘thank you’ to A.L, as always, for his interest in my two references from ‘Friends Reunited’ regarding firstly, St Margaret’s School in Folkestone, where the undoubtedly well respected Dudley Hassan was quoted by Barbara Thomas as ‘slippering on bare flesh.’ And additionally, another private school, Linden Hall, where Cressida Judd had her pyjama trousers ‘unceremoniously pulled down’ for the slipper. I’m very appreciative of your research, A.L. Thank you, again.

I’m pleased that you enjoyed the website, ‘SMOGS’, for old gals of St Margaret’s. I agree with you, A.L, that Dudley Hassan, and in particular his wife, were so well thought of. I’m not entirely sure what the reference to ‘slipper on bare flesh’ was, but I think it’s reasonable to assume that he certainly slippered the girls. That might have been just one or two moderately applied whacks and it might well have been extremely rare, but certainly Barbara Thomas got a whacking of some kind. What is abundantly clear is that this school was a very happy place to be at. One only has to read SMOGS to see that. The headmistress, the wife of Dudley Hassan, was clearly adored. I cannot believe that corporal punishment was used too often at this establishment.

Regarding the text being hidden by a photograph of Dudley Hassan, I did try looking at SMOGS on another device and it was still hidden by the image. YEP!!! Try a different browser.

With reference to the other school, Linden Hall, from what Cressida Judd and the other quoted pupil, who could well have been an Asian student (You said that some students were from overseas), said, it seems this school was some austere place from hell. It’s worth noting, is it not, that Linden Hall has no ‘old gals’ website. Mmmmmm! Maybe I’m wrong???

My research on Linden Hall, A.L , wasn’t all bad, I’ll let you know (0-10!!! LOL!). Like you, I too, found myself on the Linden Hall Facebook page to see zilch! So can I have I out of 10?!!! (I’m sure Lisa would oblige, but the question is would Lisa have allowed her pyjama trousers to have been ‘unceremoniously pulled down’ in front of a group of sixth form prefects to have a botty warming from RJF? Time I pulled myself together, as I’m being quite silly now!!!).

I did take a look at the National Archives index of a school inspection. Thank you taking the time to uncover this. But better still was the most interesting piece by Sheena Maynard, including a brilliant descriptions of the school’s uniform and the strict regulations in adhering to wearing it and wearing it well!! I have to say Sheena paints a far rosier picture than Cressida Judd and her overseas friend.
As you point out, this might be because Sheena was a day student, happily cycling to school and cycling home for lunch. No soggy veg and stew for her at school lunch!

I shall conclude by saying, yes, I know things evolve, but it is sad that both these establishments have long since gone. But at least the memory of one is alive and kicking

A.L, I cannot thank you enough. I only wish others would show an interest in this kind of thing.

More to follow!

Best wishes,

Paul.

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Feb 27, 2017#29
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hello Paul,
I see you have been very busy with your research on this thread. I agree with you A. L. really is a mine of information on this particular forum and I have always respected his contributions to various threads.

Anyway I hope you are well and in response to your question regarding the removal of clothing in order to administer corporal punishment be it pyjamas or, anything else I remain totally opposed to the practice and would have been horrified if I would have been subjected to such punishment. I firmly believe in the proper and sensible use of corporal punishment for both sexes as long as it is administered without the removal of clothing and is carried out in private.
I remain completely opposed to its use in any form against infants as I maintain my belief that the threat of the cane or strap at senior level (from 14 yrs. onwards) would be sufficient to maintain a reasonable level of disciplin.

Lisa.
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Feb 27, 2017#30
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I was talking a little bit ‘tongue in cheek’ when I brought you into the ‘pyjama trousers down’ incident that Cressida Judd experienced at Linden Hall.
Of course you wouldn’t have been happy with it……but anyway, you don’t wear anything as dull as lousy pyjamas!!! You’d have been attired, I’m sure, in your finest nightie/or even lingerie!!!! LOL!

And, yes, A.L is a wonderful contributor.

Lovely that you are still around!!! I was getting worried that you’d disappeared! Keep posting, Lisa!!
I hope business is going well

Bye,

Paul
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Feb 28, 2017#31
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Lisa
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Mar 01, 2017#32
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Mar 01, 2017#33
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hi A.L.
I’m intrigued by the term “Davenport Denudational Deviation” and the reference to hosiery. I presume this has something to do with clothing worn during some kind of corporal punishment practice? Please enlighten me as to what the phrase refers to and it’s connection with hosiery????????.

Lisa.
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Mar 02, 2017#34
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Mar 17, 2017#35
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

It’s Paul.

I’m still thumbing through my Friends Reunited collection for little oddments.

Here is one, however, that, although the message is a little jumbled, it for me, clearly defines one of the many reasons why school CP was banned.

I know exactly how this female student must have felt, because, I too, dreaded certain teachers. How on earth were a proportion of teachers allowed to teach by fear?

The issue on this FR submission is that being physically punished for misbehaviour is one thing, but to be physically punished because you are weak at certain subjects is utterly wrong. As for being hit with rulers on the backs of the legs, or in many cases, according to my FR collection, across the knuckles, it is wholly damning and shameful.

In miniscule defence of the school in question, there are no other FR refs submitted by former pupils regarding CP. In addition, and this is likely to be because the school chose not submit details of their CP policy, there is no reference to it in any STOPP publication.

Of course I do accept that there could be some distortion or exaggeration of the facts by the former pupil. Maybe it wasn’t as frequent as she implies. But I think it’s clear she was fearful of this teacher.

So what do members think?

See the FR post below:
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School: Chappletown, Harrogate Road, Leeds.

Year: 1967.

Staff member in question: Mr Ball.

Pupil: Krystyna Czajka.

Text:

‘I remember Mr Ball and his rulers very well. He used to walk round the classroom with three rulers behind his back and take people by surprise on the back of the legs if they were missing about. I was absolutely terrified of him! If we did some work and he was going round the classroom marking it, if anyone did it wrong then WHACK! The rulers would get them. I can remember being smacked by a ruler for doing a pentagon wrong, and, on the odd occasion, when he hadn’t got round to marking my work and said: “I’ll mark the rest tomorrow,” and I knew I had done something wrong or not understood it, I actually used to have a week off school feigning illness to avoid the work being marked and maybe getting hit by the ruler.’
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Thank you,

Paul.

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Mar 18, 2017#36
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hello Paul,
Hope your well. This Mr Ball character sounds like a complete monster. Is it any wonder with teachers like this corporal punishment was eventually abandoned completely.

Lisa.
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Mar 18, 2017#37
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Totally, yes, I agree with you! You are seconding what I said. It’s exactly the kind of treatment that would ultimately feed into the hands of the anti-school CP brigade, and in the end, they won the day.

What you experienced at your school was controlled and reasonable.

Likewise with the teacher in the FR post that I submitted, I also feared certain teachers who ruled by fear. If this lady was missing weeks from school feigning illness because of this ruler-happy teacher, what kind of effect did that have on her overall education?
Lisa, again, I thank you.

Keep in touch!

Best wishes for now,

Paul
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Mar 19, 2017#38
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hi Paul,
You make a very good point. When some one ends up so frightened by the prospect of getting the cane that it has a detrimental effect on what they are at school for, to be educated it amounts to child abuse and in my opinion should be treated as such. Fundamentaly there is nothing wrong with corporal punishment as long as it is applied fairly, sensibly and without malice and has the intended effect of teaching a lesson.

Lisa.
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Mar 19, 2017#39
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Fully agree with your views. Just the presence of the cane would work wonders in many cases, I suspect, especially if it was known that serious breaches of school rules would result in a rather sore bottom.

Mike
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Mar 21, 2017#40
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I support what you say. However, The post that I added last clearly is a fine example of school CP being abused, resulting in a pupil being afraid to attend school because of this’Mr Ball’ and his collection of rulers for use on the back of the legs.
Does anyone else have a view on the post? I look forward to youur respoinses
Thank you
Paul
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Mar 22, 2017#41
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Mar 22, 2017#42
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Bikini-clad EAL circa 1954?
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Mar 22, 2017#43
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Alas I fear that you have been misinformed as to the identity of the individual in your photograph. In 1954, on arrival at secondary school, I was by some margin the biggest boy in the class and was immediately allocated a position as prop forward by the games master. It took me a little time to get up to speed, but when I did it wasn’t wise to get in my way! </div>
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Apr 13, 2017#44
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Morning, A.L,

It’s Paul,

Many, many thanks for your excellent contribution regarding the incident involving Krystyna Czajka and her fear of Mr Ball, a teacher at Chappletown School, Harrogate Road, Leeds. (1967).

Yes, research shows this school no longer exists as a secondary school, but as you point out, there is a primary school. I noticed that, too. Like you, I did wonder if this incident occurred at primary school, but I get the impression the school Krystyna Czajka refers to was a secondary school. I recall other posts that seemed to point to that. In addition, she referred to doing a ‘pentagon,’ which is geometry. I ran quite weak with maths at school, but I do not recall doing pentagons at junior school (Perhaps they realised I was a ‘complete duffer’ and held back such advancements!!). It wasn’t until 1966, in my first year of secondary school, that the buggers hit Paul with geometry and algebra!!! I was WITHOUT a darn, ruddy clue! Anyhow, that’s another issue!

As I said originally, from the post on Friends Reunited, there was no other reference to Mr Ball and his rulers. The contribution from Krystyna Czajka was the only one that referred to CP, which just, just makes me wonder if this incident was more a general fear of this teacher. Yes, he might well have rulered, but perhaps it was not as nasty or as regular as the girl suggests.
I do know what it’s like to live in fear of teachers. Thus, I can understand Krystyna Czajka’s anxiety and as you point out, A.L, after all these years, she still writes about it in such a fearful way. You, too, have told of your own experiences at school. So you and I have both, errr, ‘worn the tee shirt,’ as they say!!! Perhaps she was a nervous child/young girl and seeing him occasionally hit other pupils scared her more, and in her mind it magnified the severity of the incidents. It must have caused her great distress for her to regularly feign illness to avoid his lessons. The school failed the girl, here, and should have invited her parents in for a chat and offer help. Chronic failure in my book if this girl is telling the story how it was. I admit to having a bit of doubt, for as you say, A.L., had the school noticed lots of other pupils missing from school on days when Mr Ball took their class, he (Mr Ball) would have been called to the head’s office.

Where I think Mr Ball failed, is that he really should have noticed how nervous this girl was and I think he made a dreadful error of judgement in rulering Krystyna for merely doing a pentagon wrong.
Ah, A.L., we think alike!!!! When I first read Krystyna’s post on FR, my thoughts were the same as yours. She says Mr Ball would take pupils by surprise. Mmm, fine! But how would he be able to strike effectively when the pupil was seated at a desk on a chair? The calves would be under the desk somewhat, at least. The chair legs and support rungs would get in the way. Either she has told the story wrong, or its pure exaggeration? Perhaps what happened when he took pupils by surprise is that he dragged them up from their seated position then whacked them. Or when he carried out a random, ‘surprise’ swoop, he wrapped their knuckles? I guess we can speculate forever………fascinating to do so, I admit!!! LOL!

I was so pleased you concluded with my favourite subject: Bacons,,,,,na, naa, not the type that you squirt HP with, but the school that whacked 204 girlies in year! The Sue Olds incident was a classic case of which I have all the newspaper cuttings, and other bits relating to the sizzle of Bacons, lovingly catalogued in an old scrapbook that I began in in 1977!!!

A.L, I thank you again for your detailed response.

Now, onto the next contribution from my FR collection!!! There is another one that I shall post shortly. However, I’m not going to post it on this thread relating to FR, but add it to my other thread, ‘Girls Being Treated More Leniently than Boys.’ I shall do that because the next one has a very slight tinge of inequality between boys and girls regarding carrying out SCP.

Look out for it!!!

Thanks,

Paul.
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Apr 16, 2017#45
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

It’s Paul:

Continuing with some memories from my ‘Friends Reunited’ collection, this involves a character called Mr Stern from Testwood School, in Totton. YEP! Mr Stern was his name and I think he attempted to be just that, ‘stern.’ But have a read through the two submissions and I think you can deduce he darn well failed!!

I’m sure this is one A.L might just enjoy……

First, a little about the school: Testwood School opened in 1946 initially as a secondary school and then became a comprehensive school in 1969. The school serves the growing town of Totton which lies on the edge of the New Forest and is separated from Southampton by the River Test. It became a specialist Sports College in September 2004 and converted to an Academy in August 2011.
To the posts:

POST ONE:

School: Testwood School

Pupil: Michael Vinney

Staff member: Mr Stern.

Year: 1968.

Text:
‘ I remember a day when before the maths lesson started someone had the bright idea to go to Mr Stern’s cupboard, get his dreaded slipper and chuck it out the window. He then placed a drawing pin on his chair and eagerly waited for the inevitable to happen! Mr Stern leaping about four feet in the air! He went mental and demanded to know who it was. Of course, nobody said a word so he decided to slipper the lot of us. Off he goes to the cupboard…..no slipper. Most of the class falls about laughing. He goes even more mental and finds another size 13 slipper from somewhere else and gave the whole class, “girls ‘n’ all,” the biggest slippering we ever had!!
P.S…when he was really mad he used to give the slipper a little waggle before the final blow which somehow made it sting even more.
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POST TWO (From nine years later)

School: Testwood School

Pupil: Karen Singleton.Year: 1977.

Text:

‘ Mr Stern, Bedivere housemaster. He tool 3X for maths. He had a big wart right in the middle of his forehead and we used to call him ‘Bleep.’ He completely lost it with us one day because he thought we had been copying each other’s work. We all had to line up by the wall and choose our punishments – the slipper or detention. Everyone, except Jane Barendt, chose the slipper. When break time came he let us all go without carrying out his threats!

End of posts.
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Well, well, members! What of the legendary Mr Stern?!! Poor guy! Although he tried to assert authority and use his trusty size 13, it seemed that the kids made mincemeat of him, wart as well!
I would have loved to have seen him leap in the air after sitting on the drawing pin, going, quote, ‘mental,’ then, whacking the lot of them…..”girls ‘n’ all.” Can we all assume this was on the backside………err, “girls ‘n’ all?”

The point here is that if Mr Stern was that feared, and his Size 13 was feared, too, and it darn well hurt, and he was that much of a no nonsense disciplinarian, would any pupil have dared, just dared, stick a flipping drawing pin on his chair and then throw his slipper out of the window? NOOOOOO !!! To me they made a mockery of him.
The second incident, nine years later, I really don’t know. He was obviously clear in his mind that his class were cheating. Confident of that, he gives the choice of a detention or a dose of the size 13. What made him let them off? Had he had warnings from the head about too much slippering, or was he suddenly unsure if they had cheated? And what was this ‘little waggle’ before the final blow which made it sting more?

I notice in both posts, it was either said he went ‘mental’ or ‘lost it.’ Lose control then the kids are going to chew you up. Secondly, it’s said the slipper hurt. Could it have been that bad if they did things like they did in the posts?

Definitely a character!!! But hard whacks or not, I bet he had a torturous time of it between 1968 and 1977.
What are your thoughts? I can see A.L reaching for his slipper now to deal with these kids.. Maybe A.L has also just sat on a drawing pin!

Looking forward to your responses on this one

Thanks,

Paul.
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Apr 19, 2017#46
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

At the supermarket…..or has he really sat on a drawing pin? LOL

Hope you enjoy the two FR accounts submitted above.
Thanks
Paul
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Apr 21, 2017#47
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Fear not! I have not been at the Supermarket nor have I sat on a drawing pin. Instead I have been unintentionally annoying my very greatly esteemed fellow contributor American way, though happily I think he has forgiven me. I have also spent a little time fantasising about possible changes which might have been made to the penalty for infractions in the sadly missed TWP classroom threads in the light of allegations concerning paddling practices at Flippin High School, Arkansas in the mid 20th century.

In addition I have again apologised for my complicity in the great ‘bend over on the balance bench’ conspiracy and investigated the co-ordinate system controlling display of some of the fascinating early American newspaper SCP reports that American Way finds for us. Oh, and I’ve also responded to your sally into Switzerland in the ‘Punished on a school trip’ thread. Despite subjecting myself to this rigorous and exhausting regime I still can’t kick the habit so now I’ll attempt the latest in your above collection of conundrums from Friends Reunited. If that doesn’t do the trick I don’t know what will!

Mr Stern: I am not completely in agreement with your analysis of his character and his disciplinary success as a teacher. I agree that a teacher who completely loses his temper is probably lost and will be, as you put it, chewed up by the kids. But also I think that he or she will not survive very long in the profession as they will be unable to teach effectively.

I recall with shame a new music master who desperately ranted and raged and as a result was savaged by pupils. Nothing scents weakness like a pack of teenage boys. After a week or two my form finished him off. He fled into a storeroom attached to the classroom and refused to come out, thereafter disappearing from the school. We should probably have been thoroughly thrashed for our disgraceful behaviour but nothing was said. The school didn’t encourage weakness in boys or masters.

Note though that Mr Stern survived for at least 9 years. What’s more at the end of the nine years we are told that he was a Housemaster. Very unlikely if he really couldn’t control classes and teach effectively. Note also the Mr Stern’s physical appearance did not do him any favours. He is said to have had a big wart in the middle of his forehead. Children can be very cruel to those who look different.

I think that after a little experience in the teaching profession Mr Stern probably worked out that it would be very much to his advantage to become a bread and circuses teacher. What do I mean by a ‘bread and circuses’ teacher? Well the Roman Emperors are said to have kept the Roman Mob in check by providing bread and circuses. Free food and drink and seats at the coliseum to watch unfortunate victims being tortured and despatched by a variety of ingenious methods. In return the Roman Mob behaved themselves and refrained from murdering the ruling classes and burning the city down. Well, most of the time anyway!

And bread and circuses teachers do very much the same thing. They enter into an implicit contract with pupils. The teacher will provide some entertainment and amusement for the class, often by elaborate ritualistic humiliation and/or corporal punishment of any pupils who step too far out of line. In return the class en masse are expected to behave tolerably well most of the time and permit the curriculum to be covered and adequate results achieved.

Miss B, who conducted the leg smacking which made such an impression on the juvenile Another_Lurker almost certainly had bread and circus teacher tendencies. Mass leg spankings of playground offenders from a range of classes were her speciality, always in front of her own class. I recall noting as I waited my turn in the queue in front of her class that those of her pupils who weren’t in the queue were quite amused as they watched the girl in front of me dealt with. I also recall my distress at the realisation that I would soon be the subject of their amusement. The following year in her class I saw a few of these events and I can say with certainty that watching was definitely more amusing than participating, and also tended to encourage good behaviour!

And I think Mr Stern was also a bread and circuses teacher. The rages (which he obviously was able to produce to order and switch off at will) were his way of amusing his pupils, as indeed were the occasional slipperings of most or all of the class. How can the latter be amusing you ask? Well perhaps not quite amusing but a definite contribution to the class esprit de corps. Team building you might say. There might be a certain ‘them and us’ tension between boys and girls, class cliques might be at odds. But if you’ve all got to bend over one by one and have your bottom whacked hard with a size 13 slipper you’re all in it together, differences forgotten, the strong encouraging and supporting the weak. And what emerges will be a better more cohesive whole, all ready to settle down and get on with lessons. Or not, as the case may be!

The lining up pupils along the wall and making them select a punishment, the mass slipperings, the letting everybody off occasionally thus creating uncertainty as to what was actually going to happen? All part of the repertoire of the really accomplished bread and circuses teacher. Lights, camera, action, but never be too predictable or they’ll get bored. And pupils putting drawing pins on seats, hiding slippers etc.? The best bread and circuses exponents are quite likely to be subjected to such things. They give the teacher the opportunity to put on the show and the pupils enjoy the show so much that occasionally any risk entailed in triggering it may be seen as worthwhile. You might end up part of the show, bent over for whacks with the size 13 slipper complete with the little waggle on the last whack, but so what if you’ve had a good laugh at one of Mr Stern’s notorious rages.

If you still have doubts about Mr Stern’s bread and circuses credentials consider that from the two reports we have he actually appears quite popular. He isn’t condemned as a bad or poor teacher. Nobody says he was a right b*****d because he whacked people really hard. Apparently they quite liked him. Take it from me, a bread and circuses man beyond all doubt. I know about these things. I was taught by probably the greatest exponent of bread and circuses ever, a superb teacher who went on to become headmaster of an ancient and prestigious grammar school in the north of England.

That ‘little waggle before the final blow which somehow made it sting even more’. Bit of a mystery but probably a development of the ‘just before it lands’ flick of the wrist beloved of experienced caners, slipperers and paddlers. Guaranteed to make the experience really memorable so I’m told, though I’ve no practical experience on the receiving end.</div>
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May 02, 2017#48
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

<div style=”font-size:24px;text-align:justify;”>I am puzzled and a little concerned.

Our marathon running collector and archiver of Friends Reunited oddities has not posted since the evening of 19 April when in contributions in this thread and in the ‘Punished on a school trip’ thread he queried my very short term absence and urged me to respond to his latest Friends Reunited conundrums.

I have since responded to both the posts concerned, in one case offering an alternative analysis of the situation in contrast to that advocated by Paul. However his normal response to such feedback has been conspicuous by its absence.

Come on Paul, let’s be hearing from you! Do you agree with my categorisation of the ostensibly easily angered Mr Stern and if not, why not? A few more of your Friends Reunited waifs and strays wouldn’t come amiss either!</div></div></div>
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May 07, 2017#51
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Let us first deal with Mr Stern (wart ‘n’ all……kids can be so cruel!) at Testwood School.

I’m pleased you enjoyed this submission, and indeed all the other FR memories. Once again, A.L, I thank you so much for your fervent interest and attentive replies. I only wish more members would take just a fraction of the interest that you continue to do.
I will post some more FR posts shortly, but first Mr Stern!! Then I shall respond to the other reply you made over on my other thread, which deals with ‘Sally in Switzerland on the excellent thread, ‘Punished on a School Trip.’

You and I are not quite in unison regarding Mr Stern’s ability to control a class. You are correct that a teacher wouldn’t last too long in the profession if he or she was unable to teach effectively. You might well disagree with me on this point, but I think being unable to teach effectively would more likely cost you your job in today’s schools or academies, as they call them, rather than in the sixties and seventies schools. There was far less regulation and performance monitoring of teachers in those days, far less emphasis on getting ALL PUPILS up to GCSE and ‘A’ level standard/or vocational equivalent, and schools didn’t have poor attainment and exam results published for all to see, which in many cases, results in under-performing staff, including the heads, being sacked.

I saw many utterly chronic teachers when I was at school, and blow me down years later I find out on FR that the poor teachers survived years. Lord only knows how! I recall we had an English teacher at the comprehensive school I went to in the late sixties. I saw a few young women teachers break down and cry in front of a class they couldn’t control, but never did I ever expect a male teacher to cry in front of an uncontrollable class. This guy did. The boys, in the main, gave this poor chap utter hell. Had I had this chappy throughout my whole school life I doubt I would have been capable of spelling the words ‘and’ and ‘the,’ let alone gain the three English qualifications I did get many years later. We had many male teachers like this chap who simply could not control any class. How on this earth did they survive? The personas of aforementioned were not akin to being a successful teacher. Plus, and this is significant: they all looked idiotic, in fact they looked ridiculous. The crying chap was a shrinking little man, his clothing was scruffy and tatty, and once, he came into class with cello-tape holding his glasses together. And there was more chalk on him than on the blackboard.
What I’m saying with Mr Stern is, yes, in the end he might well have gained control by use of his slipper with his ‘little waggle,’ after, however, a significant percentage of his lesson was lost due to downtime. I can well imagine that he came home from school each day utterly stressed.

And look at you, you badly behaved lout, A.L!!! LOL! Only kidding. I’m sure you were hardly that. But, my word, that poor music master. I’m afraid in today’s schools he probably would have lost his job, or maybe some re-training might well have took place. And today, I guess they have a weapon that’s better than the cane: it’s called ‘kick backside out of the school.’ in other words, expulsion. I have to ask, did this new music teacher last long at your school or was that it, in fact, when he hid in the cupboard?

As you point out, the wart would not have helped poor Mt Stern. Being called ‘Bleep’ must have hurt.

I liked your analogy of Mr Stern possibly adopting the ‘Roman bread and circuses’ method. Ah, so rewards for good behaviour in a way. Not sure that kind of thing happened that much during those now far off days. But from experiences at your own school I guess I’m wrong. Not like it does today. I guess it works well, at least for some pupils. But you suggest to ‘provide some entertainment.’ You have explained your theory well. Very well, in fact. Even the mass slipperings were part of the show. (What about the little waggle, so that it hurt more?).

I personally believe he cancelled the mass slippering described by Karen Singleton in 1977 because he was, when he had time to cool down and think logically, unsure that they (his class) had cheated.

You are correct in that, no, he was not portrayed as a right b……….d! He was probably an excellent teacher, hence his promotion to housemaster. Perhaps they never held him in utter contempt, but I certainly think they gave him a hard time……….until the size 13 came out. There might well have been some reward system, but I don’t see his ‘ranting and raving’ as part of the entertainment, nor so the mass slippering .

I guess, at the end of the day, none of us on this website will ever know. We can all speculate one way or the other, and that’s what makes our website such fun.

I do recall that when I was at school it was the ‘ranters and ravers’ who got the hardest time from us (not me!!!) and the ones who came into the class silently and had the ability to just ‘look’ at all before him or her, in a way that said, ‘ Just one peep from you lot, were the best at maintaining order. Also, things get bandied about in schools, as they probably do today, and teachers build a reputation for strictness and control, and of course, pupils behave in his or her class,.

What I will say about Mr Stern is that he wasn’t afraid to slipper a girl. Many male teachers would shrink from that particular pleasurable task!!! (LOL!) Well it was, wasn’t it, members? Seriously, most male teachers would not have dared. But he did! I wonder if he did whack them on the backside. Yes? No? Perhaps the boys bent over and the girls held out their hands? Any thoughts, A.L? Any thoughts, other members?

A.L!!! Thank you! Thank you! You help make this website so gratifying for all of us. Keep it up……..you badly behaved boy!!! (Even Lisa has nothing on you! That poor, poor music teacher!).

Best wishes,

Paul.

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May 08, 2017#52
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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May 08, 2017#53
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Yes, yes, A.L:
Indeed a wonderful collection FRs relating to girls being ‘whacked’ by male teachers, especially with the good old slipper. I have all of those posts lovingly stored in my FR files.
Take me to task if you wish, but when I look back on it, since I got my first ever internet connection and a half decent PC ( I think it was 2001? Sure it was…..) I think ‘Friends Reunited’ was the best thing that ever happened for us fans and collectors of R/L SCP memories. Wonderful times! I mourn FR’s passing. We shall never see anything like it again

The link that you sent, and i thank you, I know off by heart, but, let me tell you that I read them all again!! What joy!!!

Keep tuned in, A.L, for more FR memories to follow from me!!!
Best wishes,
Paul
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Jun 22, 2017#54
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Here are a few little dittos from my Friends Reunited collection.

A.L, I hope you enjoy the following three goodies!!!

We kick off with what we shall call a ‘dodge. Or a ‘dodgy’ one!! 1966, I know, but really? Male staff going into the girls changing room?

See below:

School: St Michaels RC Secondary Modern, Nangreave Road, Heavily, Stockport.

Staff member: ‘Old Grey-Haired ‘Wilko.’

Second staff member: Jock Mullen.

Pupil Maria Baguley

Year 1966

Text :
I remember well Basil Mead, Jock Mullen (who strapped me the very first day at St Michaels), Old Grey haired ‘Wilko.’ Hey he used to come into the girls’ changing rooms and also hit you on the bum with his pumps. Nowadays they would all be locked up.
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Well, well, well, says, Paul, here. St Michaels closed in 1980 and was replaced by Aquinas College, on the same road. I found a reunion website for St Michaels. (In fact, there are two. One from 1956 -1973). There is also a blank Facebook page. I did look for Maria Baguley and ‘dodgy’ Old Grey-Haired Wilko. Maria Baguley is not listed on the reunion sites and I cannot see any references to ‘Wilko’ either.’ There are mentions of Jock Mullen and his use of the strap. The pictures of the old school don’t look too inspiring. If this ‘Wilko’ chappie was going into the girls’ changing rooms then that was most unwise. Not good in any decade! Maria is saying he, quote ‘hit you on the bum with his pumps.’ I suppose we could take that as a casual or general comment and not a direct reference to girls, alone, getting slippered in the changing room. He didn’t hit her and she’s not saying he came in and would hit any girl that was fooling around. I just don’t know. From my Friends Reunited posts, Maria is the only one referring to ‘Wilko’. Can we all say that if this ‘Wilko’ chap was that bad, wouldn’t more ex pupils have said something? Or was he a dodgy teacher who got away with it?
Err, I cannot resist one of my little quips……”Where there’s a ‘Wilko,’ there’s a way!!’ LOL!
Your thoughts are most welcome. Thank you.

AND THE NEXT ONE!
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I have heard of similar things in science labs before:

School: Kenton School, Drayton Road, Newcastle upon Tyne

Staff member: Mr Copes.

Pupil: Janice Sinclair.

Year 1971

Text:
He was our chemistry teacher. He used to give you the belt 5 times on each hand if you put your bags on the benches. I got it 3 times. It really hurt.
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What can I say on this one, ladies and gents?! I’ll start by asking if Janice Sinclair was a tad dumb? Getting strapped once for breaking a simple science lab regulation is one thing. But to do it twice more is unbelievable, especially as she claims, ‘It really hurt.”
Surely if it hurt as bad as she claims, and I can believe that it did, then you’d hardly do it twice more. Or is it an exaggeration on her part? Perhaps it didn’t hurt as much as she said.
Looking at it from another angle, if she really does mean ‘five on each hand’ then that is one hell of a punishment. I cannot believe that any pupil would have managed to keep their hand held out for all five without taking it away and putting it under their armpit, especially a girl.

The school still exists, but as an academy and specialises in arts and technology and houses 2,000 students.
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Two from the same school, but one is a non-SCP incident. Have have a read:

School: The Grove School, Darwell Close, St Leonards-on-Sea. East Sussex.

Incident One:

Pupil: Sharon Nisbet.

Staff member: Mr Duly (KD)

Year 1976

Text.

Taught geography. Very strict..made me carry his (big) blackboard from classroom to his office for wearing trainers in his lesson. Luckily, I didn’t get the slipper.’
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How odd. Had Sharon Nesbit taken a tumble carrying a blackboard that she describes as’ big,’ I’m sure Mr Duly would have ‘duly’ been in trouble for a health &safety breach. He’d have been better off giving her a dose of the slipper, as it seems he was empowered to do so.
Then the next post from the same school:

Pupil: Francesca Zuniga

Staff member: Mr Cole.

Year: 1976

Text:

Mr Cole was our form teacher in the 1st year and was in charge of all the spankings with his battered old plimsoll. We used to all crowd around the keyhole to watch the action in the cloakroom when the latest degenerate was dragged in for him to administer his peculiar brand of punishment.’
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Another one that leaves us wondering. Francesca says ‘spanking,’ so we’d assume on the bottom, would we not? She then says, quote: ‘his peculiar brand of punishment.’ Is she referring to ‘over his knee?’ Possibly. I’m unsure. Why did he take the so called ‘degenerates’ into the privacy of a cloakroom? Why not in front of the class? It must have been something he didn’t want the class to see! Ah, but they did, of course. All fighting to get a turn at the keyhole!!! MMM, does that tell me that they were not overly scared of Mr Cole? Surely, if his ‘punishments were that feared or humiliating, with the ‘battered old plimsoll,’ you stay in your seat for sure. Why run the risk of getting caught?

What says our members?
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That’s it for this batch. Folks!

Bye,

Paul.
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Jun 26, 2017#55
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Where has A.L gone???

Paul
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Jun 28, 2017#56
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

You asked above:

I have been otherwise engaged with boys in skirts, skirt lengths, and punishments with rubber tubing here and in the USA – the usual sort of stuff! Hopefully though I shall comment on this thread before your forthcoming further contributions at the weekend.</div>
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Jun 28, 2017#57
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Good to hear from you, A.L!!! I was getting quite worried as I know you’re usually about. I thought maybe you were heavily engaged at the supermarket looking at all those pleated skirts, which then causes you to forget get half your shopping!!!!

In the USA!!!! Lucky you! A holiday, I suppose. Enjoy it!

You say:

“I have been otherwise engaged with boys in skirts, skirt lengths”

I know, I know! I have the same problem. I cannot for the life of me decide if I want to wear my little plaid number today!

Then you say:

“And punishments with rubber tubing here and in the USA”

Rubber tubing???………………….are you embarking upon some sort of a plumbing course over there? Fetch me back a rubber bung!
Yes, speak soon,
Enjoy your trip.

Paul

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Jun 28, 2017#58
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jul 01, 2017#59
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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it is now almost 2 weeks since you mentioned posting more of your ever interesting Friends Reunited items and over a week since I responded to the previous batch, hoping for your <s>disparaging</s> critically analytical comments thereon.

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Jul 09, 2017#61
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Things have not been so grand this end, sadly, but I shall be able to respond to your last ‘FR’ comments on Wednesday evening!!! I shall look forward to doing so. I might also be able to submit a couple more FR posts. as promised.
I cannot thank you enough for your interest in the FRs and you good humour.

Thank you and let us catch up on Wednesday

Best wishes for now,

Paul
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Jul 09, 2017#62
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Jul 09, 2017#63
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Thank you for your response. I am sorry to hear that things have not been as you would wish and I hope the problem can be resolved. Please disregard my jocular prompting and wait until it is convenient for you to resume activities here. Best wishes, A_L</div>
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Jul 13, 2017#64
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’m here………….. at last!!!

Things have not been that good this end and I do thank you for your kindness and concern.

Oh, no, I love your ‘jocular prompting.’ It’s all good fun, so keep the ‘prompting’ coming.

So let’s debate the last three FRs that I sent before we move on to the new:

‘Old Grey-Haired Wilko and ‘Little Miss Maria Baguley.’

Now pull yourself together, A.L. You missed the brilliance of my gag……..”Where There’s a Wilko, There’s a Way!” (Please don’t tell me that in your high street or shopping mall, there is not a ‘Wilko!’ My gag is part of their promo. To give you an example of ‘Wilko, they are currently selling eighteen toilet rolls for £3. Snag is, there is hardly any paper on the rolls, of which the quality is so thin, you can see through it!!!! I bought a set of screw drivers in there about three years back and the handles split and fell off of three of them……..’there’s a way alright!!!

Goodness me, A,L, down the years I’ve read and re-read this post over and over, and quite naturally I’ve tried to glean more, albeit unsuccessfully. I have a feeling that he was not a P.E teacher. Miss Baguley’s terminology, ‘Old Grey-Haired Wilko,’ which I assume was his name around the school, doesn’t ‘smack’ (excuse the pun) of a PE teacher for me. I could be very wrong, of course. It kind of makes me think he was an old, near retirement age teacher, who tended to spark a bit of rumour among the pupils. And I suppose we have to consider that, in the main, boys were instructed by male PE teachers and girls by females. (I do take on board that the aforementioned is very different today, because girls play football and cricket, athletics is mixed, and boys play a lot more hockey than they did in the days of ‘Old Grey-Haired Wilko’).

At my secondary school in the mid to late sixties, they had a thing about pupils taking too long to vacate the school after the 4pm bell had sounded for home time. Unless you were involved in after school clubs, sport, or doing a detention, they liked you off site. And I recall teachers, of the same sex, only, checking cloakrooms and changing rooms to see that you were not loitering. I just wonder if ‘Wilko’ was assigned to carry out checks.

You see, without additional information to that of Maria Bagulay’s, we can sit here all night and speculate. (Great fun, though!).
I have to say that with what Maria is claiming in the post: slipper on the bottom for girls, coming into the girls’ changing room, you’d reasonably think that other former pupils of this school using ‘Friends Reunited’ would have added comments to support this. Maria’s comment was the only one on FR relating to ‘Wilko.’

’I take your point, A.L., that the slipper on the bottom in 1966 for girls may not have been that unusual, but if ‘Wilko’ had a well-known repute for going into the girls’ changing room, and then, slippering girls’ bottoms, surely somebody would have added something.
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Mr Copes – the hand flagellating chemistry teacher:

‘You gotta ‘hand’ it to him.’
(Poor A.L! Can he simply tolerate any more of my gags? LOL!

Oh, yes, I have all the newspaper cuttings relating to the infamous Newcastle ‘strap for the girls’ episode. What great memories! Donald Simpson was the one who came out in support of Harry Askew if I recall…….without resorting to my files.

I cannot disagree with you that the Newcastle strap, coupled with the dimensions you submitted, was nothing compared with the Scottish tawse.(Now we know why Scottish goalkeepers we so bad in the sixties to eighties!!)

To be fair on Janice Sinclair, who did mention that it hurt, I would not go as far as you to say it did not hurt too much. If it didn’t hurt it be useless…………although yes, yes, Janice kept coming back for more……so as we have both said, she must have been a complete munter or your theory is possibly correct. I go for the munter! Goodness, FIVE is a lot!
I’d have still paid a fortune to watch Janice Sinclair ‘get it.’ I can dream, I suppose….
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Mr Cole and his cloakroom slipperings.

All very odd. Like you, I think the keyhole situation was slightly exaggerated. Can you imagine it? As one pupil watched everybody would have been shoving the kid out of the way, especially the boys if a girl was getting it!!! I know I would have been! I’d have been nigh-near sweating for a turn at that keyhole!

I suppose Mr Cole thought it was best to carry out punishments in private, but he must have rknown pupils would try to zone in on it.
I think it’s possible that skirts were lifted. These were not more mature fifth form girls, so he might well have done. Older pupils, no chance he’d risk that.

But what was the unorthodox brand of punishment? All pupils from that era would have been aware of the usual school bending positions. Thus, it makes me wonder if it was ‘over the knee,’ as it was younger pupils. It really had to be something unusual.
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Time to sleep.

New FRs to follow…..

Thank you so much, A.L.

Paul.

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Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Morning, A.L Morning members! (Well, it was morning when I started this collection……I did pause to watch Wimbledon!)

So, A.L, another little collection of FR memories for you. Thank you for your avid and dedicated interest in this thread.
Members: This thread is not just open to A.L. Please, please feel free to add your contributions! Thank you.

Here we go:

Let us start off gently with one that is probably no more than a bit of fun (perhaps???) between a female pupil and male teacher. I did smile when I first saw it.

School: Woodside Comprehensive School, Wexham, Slough

Student: Ingrid Broadhurst

Staff member: Mr Basdon.

Year; 1986 (AWWW! More recent! Not too far away from the ban!)

Text:

“Mr Basdon. I remember him, he hit me with a piece of dowel for leaning on the woodwork bench when told not to. (‘OUCH!!!’).”
My comment:

Short and….err, well… very sweet!! Mmmm! Cute! (I think I can hear A.L chuckling, already!) Two ways of looking at this one: He obviously picked on the RIGHT girl with Ingrid Broadhurst. Some girls would have not even bothered to mention it again, might have giggled and not even bothered to put in on FR all those years later.
But other girls just might have kicked up a fuss. Yes, SCP was allowed, but hitting girl, albeit playfully, maybe (which in fact could be construed as worse?) would have made a scene: reported it, told her parents. Perhaps I’m wrong, probably very wrong, but my hunch is as late as 1986, Mr Basdon was taking a risk.
Was it a mixed woodwork class, we wonder? I’d love to know. If it was, I bet the boys loved it and spread it about the school.
My assumptions is that it was one mere tap across the bum of the leaning Ingrid, and despite her tongue-in-cheek ‘Ouch!’ at the end, I think it was all a bit of amusement.
And at least Ingrid didn’t suffer five of the strap on each hand like poor Janet Sinclair got back in 1971 from chemistry teacher, Mr Copes at Kenton School. Similar offences in essence.
Did Ingrid engineer this? Mr Basdon had told her once about leaning on the bench. I really don’t know but boy oh, boy , if only I could have been there to watch!

Regarding the school, it is now a sports college and became so in 1987. It took sixth form students from 2006 and reading the school website, it seems pretty impressive.
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Okay, ‘tear your hair out time!!!’ We go to the Hounsdown School in Hampshire. Again, the following three pupils left in 1983, 1980 and

1986.

I ask what is ‘The Cred?’ Read on:

School: Hounsdown School, Hampshire, Jacobs Gutter Lane, Totton, Hampshire.

First student: Sara O’Connor. (Left school in 1983)

Staff member: Mr Pope.

Year: Not known, but if she left in 1983.

Text:

“The Cred!! Does anyone remember being given THE CRED by Mr Pope? I did for opera singing on the stairs once!!

Second student: Hillary Mason (Left in 1980).

Staff member: Mr Pope.

Text

“The Cred. Mr Pope, yes. I have the unfortunate pleasure of being the first female to be on the receiving end of THAT!! Or at least, that’s what he told me!”

Third student: Amanda Lane (Left in 1986).

Staff member: Mr Pope

Text:
“The cred. Thankfully, I don’t think I ever received the cred but I do remember a certain Donna Southwell slapping his hand when he tried it on her. Oh, happy days. Kinda surprised we didn’t both get it for standing outside his lesson around exam time and when he walked into the classroom. We decided we didn’t want to go in and did bunk off.”

History of the school: Hounsdown gained Science College status in 2005, and the school changed its official title to ‘Hounsdown School – A Science College’. With the new title came a new logo, new uniform and a £500,000 government grant to be spent on science equipment. However, rather than spending all the money on science equipment, part was spent to buy a new sports hall. On 1 August 2011, Hounsdown School officially gained academy status.

My comments: I simply cannot fathom this one out. Any ideas, dear members? A.L? Fancy a guess or two? I have just run a google search(for the millionth time in my life!)but there is nothing. Nothing on the school Facebook page either (Unless you like trains!). Frustrating!

It’s quite two dimensional this; first, one gets the impression that getting the cred was something to be feared. You assume these girls were whacked with some kind of implement on either the hand or possibly bottom. You have Amanda Lines saying ‘thankfully ‘ she didn’t get it, but then rather ridiculously she says, ‘I don’t think I ever received it.’ Well come on, if this flaming cred thing was that bad, you darn well would remember it!! And if it was utterly nothing to be feared, you’d still remember it!!!

Then we have Hilary Mason circa 1980 saying, “I had the ‘unfortunate please’ of being the first female to be on the receiving end of THAT!” That seems in jest. Given that, it has to be some kind of smack, whack, hit. Yes? No?

In contrast, Amanda and Donna Southwell, who slapped Mr Pope’s hand away when he ‘tried in on her,’ both bunked off from an exam with Mr Pope. My question is, if the cred was something to be feared, would you dare bunk off?

Going back to Donna Southwell, she slapped Mr Pope’s hand away. Was he therefore trying to grab her to put on into position, or is the clue in a further post that relates to another teacher at the school. I’m wondering, now, if the cred was some kind of restraining-grip?

Read this post:

Same school

Staff member: Mr Bowman

Student: Tracy Haybourne

Year 1979

Text

“Who remembers ‘The Bowman Torture?’ the Spock death grip on the back of the neck for talking in class. God I can still feel it now.”
(See what I mean? So I wonder was the cred a similar physical grip? But hang on, Tracy Haybourne has not finished……. yet! The end of

Tracy’s post finishes with:

TEXT:

“Also the dreaded hairbrush he threatened to whack us with every time we forgot to do our homework!”
Mmmm, but I’m assuming he never did so. If he’s using a hairbriush that surely was on the bottom.
I’m at a loss with the goings on at Pantiesdown School, err, err, sorry I meant Hounsdown School.
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Did we not mention, A.L., how unlikely a spanking in a state school would be, especially if male on female? Read this:

School: Rosebank High School, Elwick Road, West Hartlepool

Pupil; Jan Dadd

Staff member; Wilf Pidd

Year: 1969.

Text:

“Mention should be made of Mr Snaith, who was at the school several years; Miss Dickinson who taught in the year after kindergarten (Was it Remove?). Mr Little (who I think was an old boy (teaching chemistry and games, mainly rugby, for a short while); Mrs Blake who inflicted upon us SMP mathematics – I understand that she left when my year were in the ‘O’ level year and pupils had to revert to proper maths and the very proper Ms Goodson. I recall Sgt Bosworth used to reek of tobacco and boasted that he played for Arsenal in the war years. Similarly, I can smell to this day the cigarette stench when Wilf Pidd used to put me between his legs to give me a good spanking.”

My comment: Well how about that? I wonder if Jan Dadd means he grabbed hold of her and forced her between his legs as he stood and he smacked her as she crouched in between his legs. Or was it over his knee as he wrapped one legs over her calves? Unlikely, I guess. Maybe that would be too blatant. I’d say a quick wallop or two while she bent between his legs. We have to agree this would have been extremely unusual in a state school.

School History: The 130-pupil Rosebank High School which was in Elwick Road in the town.
Its last days were in 1987 and officials put it down to the area’s unemployment and falling pupil numbers. It led to, as the Hartlepool Mail put it in April of that year, the “shock decision” which was forced on the headmaster and the governors of the school.
There is quite an active Facebook page relating to this school but thus far, I cannot find anything of interest.
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Next

Final one!

Well, could this one be another to add to the collection of ‘bread and circuses’ men? Have a read:

School: Beauchamps High School, Beauchamps Drive, Wickford, Essex.

Pupil Janet Reece

Staff member: Mr Woolnough,

Year 1969.

Before the main event, Teresa Blakesley (1968) added the following about Mr Woolnough.

“ Mr Woolnough: Once, when in an English lesson with Mr Collyer, Mr Woolnough appeared at the window ledge asking to be let in as his class had persuaded him to retrieve something from outside (this was not ground level!!) and had shut the window. The sound of plimsoll was heard a few moments later! Also, in the library, I remember him throwing a piece of chalk at a new girl, and, I can only assume that this was because she was unaware of his reputation, she threw the chalk back at him-always sounds great fun when it was someone else unless you all got punished for laughing”

Now here is Janet Reece’s post:

“Mr Woolnough: Oh, how I remember those maths classes. I was always bottom of the class and always got picked on. the final straw came one day when I was trying to get John Hood to give me the answer to a question I couldn’t answer, and cos I got it wrong, I had to go out to the front where “Hertz, the great white slipper was whacked across my backside Who said girls never got the slipper!!!!! Anyone remember that!!!! We were all in fits of laughter and then I got sent outside the classroom.”

My comment. This Mr Woolnough chappie reminds me greatly of Mr Stern at Testwood School that I submitted a short while back. Like Mr Stern, I don’t think the pupils took Mr Woolnough too seriously, and I’m thinking his slipperings were nothing to fear. So in the first post sent by Teresa Blackesley, he is persuaded by his class to go outside and retrieve something, only to then get locked out by the pupils who were probably rolling up with laughter. Within moments, Teresa can hear a slippering going on. Similarly to Mr Stern at Testwood, if ‘The Great White Hertz’ is that well applied and it’s mentioned by Teresa about his repute, why were the pupils nor fearful of a whacking? No pupil would lock a strict disciplinarian who controlled his or her class, out of the classroom.

As for Janet Reece who got a dose of ‘Hertz, she bent over in front of a mixed class. The boys must have loved it! After getting slippered Janet and her classmates are in fits of laughter and she is sent outside. I’m guessing just one whack. I’m not sure Mr Woolnough was joking here (as opposed to my first post in this collection where a girl felt the dowel). They have made utter mincemeat of this teacher. Like Mr stern, he clearly had a short fuse and threw chalk and dusters just like Mr Stern did. I think the only reputation he had was as a joke. I did like the name given to his slipper, however.

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The School: The school is located in the town of Wickford in Essex, England, and moved to its present site in 1959. The school was called Beauchamps Grant Maintained School until 1999, when its name was changed to Beauchamps High School. In 2003 it acquired a specialist status as a Business and Enterprise school, and in 2008 it obtained a Vocational status.
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I hope you enjoyed the collection.

Please join A.L in giving some feedback on these

Thank you,

Paul
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Jul 14, 2017#66
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Thank you very much for your posts and your efforts. I am sure many more read them than respond.

As you say “the CRED” is a real puzzle. There must be a clue in the comment below:
I do remember a certain Donna Southwell slapping his hand when he tried it on her
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Jul 14, 2017#67
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

With it being Wimbledon fortnight, I was just thinking about tennis. I was wondering where the next batch of great Australian players were? I have noticed a couple of good junior boys coming along, but the girls, not sure? It begs the question: should Johanna Konta be an Aussie player and not a pom??? LOL!!! She’s ours! She’s ours!

Anyway, I ramble: Thank you for your kind response.
Ah, I see ‘The Cred’ has you baffled, too. YEP! Like me, you also think there could be something in the girlslapping Mr Pope’s hand away as he quote, “tried it on her.” Makes me wonder if it was some kind of physical grip??? Who darn well knows

Keep posting, Oliver and keep spanking……………those tennis balls down the line!

Best wishes,

Paul
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Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Hello, A.W,
How’s you? Well, I hope.
Thank you for your response. You asked:

“Paul, any “cyber-noise” in the social networks found on paddling would be greatly appreciated.”

My goodness, I wish there was! I so darn well wish there was!!!
I’m quite a collector of U.S school paddling, both R/L and fiction writing, but all that I have would be just a token collection compared with yours, not to mention your vast knowledge.

Prior to my first going online (I think that was circa 1999), I was not even aware that certain states in the U.S employed corporal punishment. I was utterly speechless when I discovered that paddling was allowed. In orbit would be a good description. My main area of interest is of girls getting it, similar to my U.K interests.

I think I told you once before that when Timpson hit us in the UK, three of us were thinking of jetting over there……..just for a …holiday!! LOL.

I do recall the last time I holidayed in Florida. an American family invited me to stay with them for a while. One night I was bemoaning the lack of discipline in Some British kids. My host said that he stood no nonsense from his daughter, He said something like, “Why I don’t hesitate to take her across my knee with her panties down to spank her butt real hard.”
He added she’d got spanked since a little girl. It was later during my stay that I met his daughter!!!! I nearly fell over! She was a real darling! I felt like begging to be sassy during my stay!!!
Anyway, AW, I need to control myself!!!

Quite naturally if I find anything of interest I would naturally alert you.

I have both enjoyed and admired your submissions and dedication down the years. You’re a wonderful member to have. Thank you.

Keep posting
Paul
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Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hi Members
Does anybody got any thoughts at all on what The Cred is?
Or any thing to add regarding the later FR posts?
Thanks
Paul
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Jul 18, 2017#70
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Hi Paul

I`m afraid I have no idea what The Cred may have been, the “who remembers `being given the Cred` does imply it may have been some sort of implement however `slapping his hand away when he tried it on her` makes me think it was perhaps more likely to be some sort of pinch, scuffing or twisting of skin. I agree with you that it is rather odd Amanda Lanes seems uncertain if she received it or not, surely she would know. As to whether it was something that was truly feared given the girls were willing to risk it by bunking off, in my opinion/ experience if you want to do something that could well incur an unpleasant penalty if caught you`ll do it anyway if the desire is high enough. I will give an example of when I did something that could have had serious consequences further on in this post.

Regarding to woodwork teacher and the wooden doweling, this must have been a common occurrence with woodwork teachers! I can remember one of my friends telling me the woodwork teacher in her class ( just the girls, we did woodwork and metalwork for one term in the three first years, while the boys did cooking and needlework) threatened to whack them with a piece of doweling if he caught them slouching over the benches. I am certain this was said in jest.

I think you are incorrect if you believe Rosebank High was a state school, Fees must have been paid to attend this school as the one of the governors said at time of closure the only way of keeping it open would be to substanstianly increase the fees. It also appeared to cater for pupils from the age of 4 to 18, while it migt have been extremely rare for a senior pupil to be spanked in either state or private education the same can not be said for juniors. Mr. Pridd is said to have taught the junior aged childern. There is nothing particularly odd in a teacher of junior age children delivering a spanking should the need arise, although I would suggest the older the child becomes the likehood decreases, at my primary school spanking became much less of an occurance as we moved up the years. There does seem to be some discusion as to which age group Mr. Pridd taught whether it was the very young just out of kindergarten or the older just about to move onto senior group, but young or older juniors I would still say spanking was not extremely unlikely, even for a female to be punished by a male class teacher. Mr. Pridd`s modus operandi does seem a little odd however, to put the childs head between his legs, I would be a little surprised at a male teacher postioning a female pupil in such a way, however the author of the the FR post Jan Dadd is male, there is no suggestion Mr. Pridd did this to a female, possibly he did but as I`ve said I would find it a little surprising.

Oh dear Mr. Woolnough! He must have been a gullible sort of chap though, surely he must have climbed through the window. Teresa says he appeared at her class window after his class had shut the window on him thus locking him out. She uses the word window not door, had there been doors that opened onto the ledge surely she would have said door. Maybe that`s just a term she uses if you can see through it it`s a window not a door even if it fully opens to get allow you to step straight out rather than have to climb out, Perhaps it`s just me I call the french windows doors when I want my husband to go and let a dog in or out I tell him there is a dog at the door not window, anyway back to Mr. Woolnough I think he must have climbed through a window and to be persauded to do that he must have been gullible!

Mr. Woolnough prediciment leads me onto explain what I mean about having a fear of punishment but doing something quite awful anyway!

While reading about Mr. Woolnough`s window experience I was thinking the class made the mistake of locking him out, he was always going to get back in fairly quickly and deal with them, what they should have done is locked him in at the end of the day then gone off home! That`s what I did to a science teacher, well not just me and I wasn`t the one who stole the keys and actually turned the lock but I was very much a part of the planning and ensuring it happened!

This was an end of corridor classroom not used as a form room, fairly isolated, last lesson on a Friday in theory if no-one heard him, the cleaners decided not to clean that area or he couldn`t get out of a window he could have potentially stopped in there until school reopened Monday! We did presume he`d get out it was on the ground floor and there were windows we didn`t actually hope he`d get locked inside all weekend but if `I`m honest I don`t think I overly cared.

We knew this teacher wouldn`t like the thought of everyone knowing he`d been delibrately locked in he had a big ego the no-one messes with me sort, he would be furious he`d been made a fool of but would want to save face, he was unlikey to report us. However the consequences for us could have been severe, we had carried out a potentially dangerous prank, locking someone in what could have ended up being an empty buliding, if he had decided to report us, or had someone found him or spotted him climbing out the window and reported it, we would have been in serious trouble. I had already been in serious trouble before and I was certainly not as my mum would put it ` an hard faced one` if I had found myself facing severe corporal punishment again I would have been horrifed and extremely fearful.

So why did I happily get involved in this prank why did I put myself, as you ask you say of Mr. Woolnough pupils and of Amanda Lanes facing the Cred , at risk of something if I really feared it I wasn`t cajoled or bullied , my head was clear, I was capable of rational thought, yet I feared the consequeces. I simply played my part because I thought the teacher was an idot and deserved it. The desire to do something to annoy him was greater at the time than the thought of consequences, and that I believe is what drove many puplis to behave badly even when facing dreaded slippers, canes, the Cred, Of course sometimes it`s because there were not so fearsome, but often I think we just desired the reward of upsetting certain types of teachers more, or at least we did at the time!
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Jul 18, 2017#71
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Its Paul. I hope I find you well
Thank you so much for your kind response. To be frank, it cheered me up, greatly. The paucity of replies on this subject is disappointing.
Yours was an excellent post which I have only just seen. I’m off to sleep now but a full response tomorrow!!! I have actually gone through my STOPP publications to see what the LEA and the actual school regulations were. Those STOPP publications are like gold dust to me! The problem is, in some cases, the LEA regulations do not tie up with the date of the incidents. But it was still an enjoyable exercise.
Of course you were a respondent to my, ‘Let’s Play Schools’ thread (Another one of mine that but the dust!! LOL!) Yours was an outstanding effort. Thanks

Speak tomorrow
Bye
Paul
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Jul 18, 2017#72
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jul 19, 2017#73
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jul 20, 2017#74
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Hello, JD19,

It’s Paul. How are you?

To reiterate what the legendary A.L said, it really is grand to have you back posting. Thank you. Your contributions have been excellent and again, I thank you for making such an effort to have a crack at my ‘Let’s Play Schools’ survey.

I was only thinking a short while back about you as well as folk like Maree (She is a brilliant contributor: I know she was feeling unwell recently and I’m hoping she’s fully recovered. She is missed!), Tom, Neilmc32, Lisa (who was well practised at bending over a desk during her schooldays!), and Keith. It’s looking as if a few of them, among many others, are drifting away. These members had lots to offer to the debate of SCP and I’m hoping they will come back.

Going through your response to my ‘Friends Reunited’ submissions, let me begin with Woodside School and that of Mr Basdon using a dowel on Ingrid Broadhurst in 1986 at Woodside School Wexham, in Slough.
Indeed this school is now a sports college and became so in 1987. And as I said, it took sixth form students from 2006.

I think the dowel incident was more in jest than for a real disciplinary measure. (I can recall at my secondary school in my fourth year: 1969/70 a new, young woodwork teacher taking over from the……..wait for it,…..retired Mr Wood (seriously, no joke!), and this new guy said there were lots of implements nice and handy in the woodwork room to whack us with, but he preferred the long, metal ruler. But it was all a spoof! He never whacked any of us. In fact, he was a really nice bloke! Mind you, he did say I was a bit of clot at woodwork…………………….not as bad as Mr Wood, who, during my first year said to me: “Son! In all my thirty years of teaching woodwork, you are the worst I’ve ever seen! All the boys are going home with nice, varnished coffee tables for their parents. You are going home with firewood!”
Then in my junior school, two teachers, Mr Bailey and Mr Williams, had this enormous, thick book. The book would be passed between Mr Williams’ and Mr Bailey’s classes, so one of them could give one of us one whack with it. They tried to dress it up as something to be feared, but us ten-eleven year olds could see through it. It was simply a massive mockery. How can you hit a bending boy with a massive big book? May I add, the girls……as flipping usual throughout my schooling, were exempt!!!………….More Bread and Circus, A.L??? LOL)
So for me, Mr Basdon probably spotted Ingrid Broadhurst leaning onto the woodwork bench, having already told her not to, reached for a handy piece of dowel and gave her a playful whack cross her bottom. I would say Ingrid’s “OUCH” was all part of the theatre. (Yes? No? Anybody?) And of course, JD19, you became aware of something quite similar at your school, gleaned from a friend who was in woodwork.

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Rodesdale, Hartlepool

You see, JD19., the idiot in me took a lead role that night. I was tired, indeed, but no excuses for an SCP fan like me!!! This esteemed forum expects much, much better of its members!!! Having checked on the night, I still put ‘state school’ in my post!!! Sorry for the confusion!

I did find this comment on a Hartlepool historic website:

“I m looking for anyone who attended Rosebank, from 1983-84 to its closure in 1987, either as a teacher or pupil. I was then Clare Parkinson. I’m about to leave the area (at long last) and it would be great to keep in touch with a part of my past.”

And now it transpires that ‘Jan Dadd’ is male!!!! Oh, nooo! I have a whole stack of saved FR SCP posts. Of that stack, an old friend of mine found the most. I recall getting the Rosedale post circa 2002-03, and at that time my friend and I discussed if it was a male or female. We decided upon ‘Jan’ being a female, thinking it was a ‘Janet.’ Looks like I, or we, were wrong yet again.
As you would guess, the thrust of my SCP interest is that of girls getting it. All my files relate to females and the boys incidents, as in the STOPP publications, are more about stats for me. Thus, with Jan being a boy, and of only junior years, it’s knocked the stuffing out of me and I shall go moping to my friend, A.L, later.

Both you and A.L seem to agree that girls being spanked in junior school, and by male staff, was not uncommon. I’m not sure, to be honest. From experience, I can only refer to my schooling, in which girls were never physically punished in either my junior or senior school (London 1962-1971). In later life, as a teenager, when I first started dating girls (Oh what an age of pure fun and innocence), I did used to dig a tad for info and I recall only two ex-girlfriends being caned at secondary school, both on the hands, and none ever physically punished at junior school.(As far as I know). But, again, this is referring to the part of the country I grew up in and the rest of the country, especially up north, was very different.

Hounsdown School, Hampshire.

Here we find ‘The Cred.’ Mmmm. We are all coming up with theories that are quite similar. What a profound mystery. I’m sticking with some kind of a vice like grip. It we look at the first entry, that of Sara O’Connor. she got The Cred for singing opera down the stairs. Is there anything too in…CRED ulous (Just can’t resist a gag!) about singing down the stairs that deserves punishment? It depends on the timing of it. Was it one the way to her next lesson? If so, yes, one might get a telling off. Was she causing a commotion on the stairs? Again, a telling off. but not if it was say going to lunch, or to break or going home. Yes, there must be control when large numbers of pupils are moving about from place to place, especially on stairways, but I think most would cut them some slack. I’m guessing Mr Pope dished out his style of punishment there and then. Surely if it was a spanking implement of some kind, it wouldn’t have been handy, unless it was a small strap like implement. I think he got her in some kind of a grip and told her off.

Your theory of ‘some sort of pinch, scuffing or twisting of skin’ I guess is similar to that of mine.

I agree with you that if desire to do something daring at school, for example, then, ‘bunk off, is palpable, then I guess some pupils might do it. But in the main, I’d say these would be boys. I’m not too sure too many girls would if say the threat of the cane was possible. Boys, especially ones who are frequent offenders, would risk it, even if six of the can was possible. Better behaved pupils might not!

Mr Woolnough

Well what a character he was. Another ‘Mr Stern’ from one of my earlier FR posts.

HEY! We think alike I call my french windows doors, too!!!!!

With Mr Woolnough being locked out of the class, I suppose the pupils found this a great chance to have a massive bit of fun, despite the consequences of the slipper. You make a good point in that they probably had the fear of the slipper, especially the girls, but had the burning passion to have a good laugh at the expense of this, as you say, gullible chap

I adored your little anecdote regarding locking a science teacher, with an inflated ego, in a classroom. Excellent story!!! This kind of information is what I enjoy! Yes, it’s possible he could have been there all weekend, although that was not anybody’s intention. Then you’d have all been for the high jump! But you felt that he wouldn’t report you all because he would want to save face.

So tell me, or us, JD!19, what punishment did you get? Did the science teacher punish you all? Or did he ultimately report you all? To the headmaster, perhaps?

You said severe CP again? Are you saying you wee caned before at school

Yours was an excellent response, I greatly appreciate it. Thank you

Please keep posting and do tell us all about the outcome of the science teacher prank.
Bye,

Paul
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Jul 20, 2017#75
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Hello, A.L

Thank you once again for an excellent contribution.

I was saying to JD19, and thank goodness we have her contributing again, that the folk we had, who liked to discuss and debate SCP, are not around too much. It’s disappointing to see them disappear. One wonders if they grow tired by the lack of response to posts? I so much wish that Tom, Maree, Neilmc32, Lisa and Keith were with us more. They offered so much to our forum, every darn one of them.

I hope you noticed my little gag in JD19’s post. In referring to ‘The Cred ‘I said. “it was in….CRED…ulous!!!” LOL! Not as good as ‘Where There’s a Wilko There’s a Way!” I was in our branch of Wilko the other day and I had a chuckle or two as I thought off you.

Regarding my visit to America when I stayed with the American family, where the father thought nothing about taking his daughter panties down for a spanking, then of course I saw the daughter!!! No, no, it was a typo! Goodness, I was dying for her to get a spanking while I was there! She was an utter stunner who had Paul keeling over. The family had a large pool in their back garden and boy could she fill a bikini. Even a cool ‘bud’ beer couldn’t cool me down. My imagination was rampant. All I can say is, ‘God Bless America.’

Yes I was referring to the Timpson high School paddlings when fifteen girls were paddled. What an incident that was, although it transpired that some of it was exaggerated somewhat. Three of us were toying with the idea of going out there to investigate but we didn’t. I did, however, write Principal Cousins a letter of support.

Now down to business:

Woodside Comprehensive School, Wexham, Slough and Ingrid Broadhurst allegedly whacked with a piece of dowel by Mr Basdon.
Didn’t the actual ban fall in the earlier part of 1987? I could be wrong. I have the cuttings in an old scrapbook, which I don’t have to hand

For me as I said before and in JD19’s reply. I’d say it was a spur of the moment thing; Mr Basdon spotted Ingrid leaning on the bench, he grabbed a piece of dowel and gave her one moderate tap in jest. The ‘OUCH!’ was likely to be part of the fun, shall we say, unless she wasn’t expecting it coming and it was an involuntary response.

Oh, I agree with you, I think back in the day there must have been many a male teacher who had a secret desire to cane or slipper a girl. Most controlled their urges. Some did not. I loved your little scenario, too, coupled with bottle green knickers. I prefer navy blue, black or white. But I have liking for girly pink, too.

But I do think Mr Basdon got lucky with Ingrid. He picked on the RIGHT one. Some girls would have dropped him in the mire. I have a case up in my files (printed newspaper cutting) of only a few years back, and naturally years and years after the ban, where a make science teacher lightly smacked a girl’s bottom during a lesson as she leaned over. This guy picked on the WRONG one and she reported him and he was sacked and under the safeguarding regulations and I think put on the register. I’m on holiday for two weeks from tomorrow, but I’ll dig that one out for you when I return.

Hounsdown School in Hampshire and Sara O’Connor, Hillary Mason and Amanda Lane

Ahh, like you. I googled, too. But not with your hilarious results. I got nothing.
Your theory is that the Cred was a large (hence the capital letter) C in red chalk on the offender’s forehead. C + red (chalk) = Cred, geddit? Yes, indeed, very plausible.

I see JD19 is almost of my opinion in that it was some kind of vice-like grip. She says that it could be twisting of the skin.. I really do not believe it was any physical chastisement such as whacking or spanking. And if your theory is correct, you could understand the reluctance to do it to a girl. The physical touch could have landed him in hot water.

Yes, I think the Mr Bowman threat of the hairbrush to the girls was just that! A threat!

Rosebank High School, Elwick Road, West Hartlepool

Well I have already highlighted my mistake of adding ‘state school when I knew that was not the case. Well spotted, DD19.
I’m just so darn well disappointed that Jan Dadd was a boy. When my friend found this post 2002-03 tiime we clearly both thought it was Jan short for Janet. Plus it seems a junior, too. Disappointed!!!

Beauchamps High School, Beauchamps Drive, Wickford.

Oh what a circus as David Essex once sung. I would have loved to have seen Mr Woolnough appearing at the classroom window having been locked out. Then to hear that slipper fall. Schooldays, eh?!

But not as much as I’d like to have seen Janet Reece getting a dose of Hertz, even if her and the class were laughing afterwards.
I enjoyed putting these together. There shall be more!

As I say, on holiday for two weeks from tomorrow. Ready for some more after that!!!

Best wishes,
Paul.

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Jul 20, 2017#76
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I do think Friends Reunited is a valuable source of genuine spanking accounts, and obviously those administered to female students are of most interest.

I’m reasonably convinced that a LOT of girls, though probably still a minority of less than 20%, experienced corporal punishment in English/Welsh secondary schools prior to the general ban on CP in state schools coming into force.

However I am also convinced that this would generally have been applied by female staff, and, in the case of the cane, usually to hands rather than bottoms.

I am NOT convinced that any male teacher of the time would have had a girl’s skirt lifted or would have spanked her with his hand, these would have been asking for trouble, or that bottoms were bared (except maybe by gym teachers in showers, these strange people seem to have been left to their own devices almost as though the gym was in another country!)

In Scotland beltings to the hands were almost an everyday event so I wouldn’t disbelieve any account of such.
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Nov 03, 2017#77
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Paul, here,……..at last with another collection of peaches from my Friends Reunited collection. I hope these bring forth lots of discussion and debate.

A.L raised an issue a short while back in that we now have two ‘Pauls’ (Hi, the other ‘Paul.’ This could get mightily confusing!!!! LOL! To simplify: I shall now be, ‘Poor Old Paul.’)

So, Poor Old Paul is hoping to cheer my esteemed fellow member and friend with this collection. I do apologise for the delay. Time beats me and in three years six months I can retire!!!!!! THANK GOD!

Anyway, I ramble. Here goes.

Incident 1. So, we all quite rightly believe that a ‘bare bottom punishment’ would be unheard of in a state school. And if it did happen, there would be repercussions! Well, read on……..

School: Egerton Park High School, Egerton Street, Denton, Tameside Greater Manchester.

Year: 1975

Pupil: Susan Yates.

Staff member: Miss Ainley.

TEXT: Field Trip.

Does anybody remember the field trips we went on in the third year? We stayed in a youth hostel in the Lake District and had to peel potatoes for days!
I remember all us girls, Debra, Debra, Michelle, Susan, Susan, Karen all sharing a dorm and one night when we were all supposed to be asleep one of the Susan’s (not me!) doing an impression of an amoeba (?) in the middle of the room. Miss Ainley came in at the crucial point and smacked Susan on her bare bum!! We all were under the covers at the time trying really hard not to laugh! The sight of her bare, red bum is imprinted on my mind and I still smile today when I think about it.

School history and now:

It used to be called Egerton Park Community High School, and previous to that Egerton Park Secondary Modern School. It also held specialist Arts College status.
In 2010 Egerton Park merged with fellow Denton high school Two Trees Sports College, on the Egerton Park campus, creating a City Academy style high school. The name of the new school is Denton Community College. The students were on split sites but under the new Denton Community College branding (with Egerton Park being known as ‘North Campus’ and Two Trees ‘South Campus’) until the new school building opened on 10 January 2012 to students.

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My thoughts: 1975! One finds it extraordinary that this could have happened at that time. But they were in a hostel on a school trip, not in an in-school situation. Miss Ainley came rushing in, I assume, in response to the fuss and commotion and there was ‘Susan’ playing the fool. I guess Miss Ainley reacted angrily, took hold of ‘Susan, ‘ who I guess would have been thirteen and a half, spun her round, flipped up the nightgown/or yanked down the pyjama bottoms and assumedly, ‘Susan’ had removed her panties for bed, and, Smack! Smack! Smack! On the bare! Was Miss Ainley expecting to be presented with Susan’s bare bottom? The other girls found it amusing, which makes me wonder if it wasn’t much of a ‘smacking. It, however, made an impression on Susan Yates, our poster, which leads me to think this was a one off incident while on a school trip. Any thoughts, anybody?
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Incident Two

Now talking of a merger with Two Tress, here is that very school!!!

School: Two Trees Community High, Denton, Tameside, Greater Manchester.

Year 1980.

Pupil: Bev Whittaker.

Staff member: Mr Reed

TEXT: Mr Reed- He had a break time slipper club where we could have biscuits in the quad (his room). I was the first girl to get slippered and join the club for writing ‘paper and comb’ on an answer sheet for some musician’s favourite instrument. He was great.

My thoughts: He slippered girls, although our poster, Bev Whittaker, was the first female member of Mr Reed’s ‘exclusive club.’ On the bottom? Who knows, sadly. But HEY! This guy had it made! He slippered girls……but he was great!!! LOL! Maybe it wasn’t much of a slippering? And what is a ‘slipper club?’ Was the club there as part of the repentance process? A club to re-build relationships between teacher and pupil, after the whacking? Even biscuits were provided. I have read about this kind of thing in schools before. Perhaps, then, Mr Reed was ‘great.’ Good teacher; but if you fell short of his standards, it was whack-whack and you then had a period of reflection and a chat at his ‘slipper club.’ My goodness, I wish I could have been secretary of this club. Brilliant anecdote of Bev Whittaker’s, who wrote that some musician’s favourite instrument was a ‘paper and comb.’ One simply has to laugh at her cheek, but then again the musician might have been,………, err, Lonnie Donegan? Or Aker Bilk before he could afford a clarinet?
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Incident Three.

School: Caldew School, Dalston, Carlisle.

Year: 1969.

Name of pupil: Heather Harrison.

Staff member: Bob Treasure.

TEXT.
Does anyone have this claim to fame? Being walloped on the backside with Mr Treasure’s cuddy walloper which was a wooden bat, then your name was written on the bat when punishment had been administered. Mr Eland sanded the bat down after every term ready for the new term. The boys were always hit much harder than the girls

History of the school:

The Caldew School opened in 1959, and is a mixed gender school with pupils ranging from 11-18. It is located in the Village of Dalston in Cumbria. The school educates just over a thousand pupils including sixth form, with around one hundred teaching staff. The school’s logo is an image of a cockerel, which is also used by the village the school is located in. The school’s motto is ‘Whilst I live, I crow.’ Caldew pupils take part in activities competing with pupils from other schools in sports, such as football, rugby and running.
Caldew converted to academy status on 1 August 2011.

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My thoughts: There have been a few of these bats being used in schools on FR and elsewhere. ‘A cuddy walloper,’ that was signed by whacked pupils, girls as well, it seemed. It appears that the punishments were administered in front of the class, with our poster, Heather Harrison, pointing out that he was a tad gentler with the girls. I would have to check my STOPP publications for regulations regarding Carlisle, for of course that’s the place where the legendary Colin West got his trainer and cream kit out for girls…………………talking of which:

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Incident Four.

School: St Aidan’s County High School, Lismore Place, Carlisle.

Year: 1975.

Pupil: Fiona Brown

Member of staff: Colin West.

TEXT:

I had pepper thrown in my eyes by a couple girls. Colin West brought them to ‘matron’s room and then ‘spanked’ them in front of me. My aunt sent me a newspaper clipping a while after that about him.

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My thoughts: The Colin West court case hit the newspapers in 1983 and related to incidents circa 1980 through to 1982. In one of the local cuttings I have, it seems that the headmaster of the school had warned Colin West in 1979 about his unorthodox methods, long before his activities came before the courts. But it seems he was spanking girls even before then in 1975. Fiona Brown used the word ‘spanked.’ I do not think this would have been a knickers down job while spanking two girls, plus having a witness. Maybe that came much later when he obviously become far bolder! And the matron’s room seemed to be a place he liked to use, especially for girls he’d slippered the day before, to take them there to look at their bottoms and put on some more cream. During the court case it came to light that Mr West had spanked one girl in his office for wearing the wrong colour jersey. He kneeled down and put the girl over one knee, then drew down her panties. I’d guess he did the same to these two pepper throwers, but with knickers left in place. Any thoughts, members?

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Incident Five.

School: St Wilfred’s Secondary School, Holstein Avenue, Rochdale.

(POST ONE from this school).

Pupil: Suzanne Bene-Doszpoly.

Staff member: Mr Hill.

Text:

The best teacher ever! Do you remember how popular M+s trainers were? I could never afford any. Mr Hill gave me M+S trainers though! Six of the best in the storeroom, still love him. I have bumped into him recently at a restaurant. He was with Mrs Shore the home economics teacher. He looks exactly the same, dressed impeccably. He recognised me.

My thoughts: Oh, recognised her after all those years! What her or her backside?! I would imagine one of those M+S trainers would have darn well hurt! They were quite heavy duty if I recall. She still loved him, did Suzanne. I would imagine he would have been quite young at the time. Taking pupils, including girls, into anti-rooms or storerooms was quite popular, it seems. But was it REALLY SIX of the best, or is she using that just as an expression? It seems Mr Hill was referred to as ‘Trilly,’ as the next post from this school suggests……

POST TWO
Date: 1981.

Pupil: Deborah Ward

Staff member: Mr Hill and Mr McGill

TEXT:

Lessons with ‘Trilly’ were certainly different. He used to DEMAND someone’s pump from their foot to use on one’s backside or palm of hand! (OUCH!) He would then give you ‘six of the best.’ (If you were lucky). He had been known to physically wrench some poor kid’s pump from their foot when they refused to offer it voluntarily. I remember when Heather Paul sat on her hands and refused point blank to suffer the agony of his punishments! Mr McGill’s methods of punishment were also memorable. The whole class used to have to line up and he would then whack each one on the bottom!

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My thoughts: How odd that ‘Trilly’ Hill never had his own pump. I have read of similar things before, and I guess Susan was unlucky that Mr Hill chose something like an M+S trainer! But the debate that the slipper was exclusively used on the backside has been proved wrong again in this post and a couple of others I have sent. “Hand out, girl!” It looks as if Heather Paul was due a hand slippering, as she SAT on the darn things! It’s an odd mix this one. It seems Trilly Hill was well liked by pupils. But he had aggression in demanding pupils’ trainers to whack with. But what did he do about Heather Paul? And ‘six of the best ,sometimes more’ is quoted yet again! And we have Mr McGill, with whole class pumpings , including the girls, and on the bottom! Excellent!

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History of the school: St Wilfrid’s RC Middle School Closed 31. August 1989.

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Incident Six.

School: St Thomas More RC High School, Town Lane, Denton

Year: 1977

Pupil: Mike Healey.

Staff member: Mrs Kerr

Text:

In the name of ‘the old battle axe’ referred to by Terry Turner, what she got away with in those days would put the Ayotollahs in Iran to shame. I remember her taking delight in thrashing the backs of one girl’s legs with the obligatory 12” wooden rulers whist the poor girl was stood on top of a desk in front of the whole class. I think the girl may have been called Geraldine. Can’t remember the surname, but it started with ‘Mc.’!! It was the speed and number of repetitions that Mrs Kerr hit you with that used to make me laugh. Literally. Which just made her even madder!!

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But there is a part two to this post:

Year: 1977.

Pupil: Janice Kinsella.

TEXT:

Michael Healey has mentioned the 12” ruler thrashing. That was me. I achieved this ‘honour’ for wearing a short skirt. Boy it stung. That was one of the most painful experiences of my young life. Didn’t she have a long cane that was taller than herself?

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My thoughts: I’m unsure about this one. Mike Healey makes it sound very dramatic and quite awful, although, oddly, he says the speed and reps of it made him laugh. I wonder if the girl got it on the calves or upper legs. But then the girl comes forward in the shape of Janice Kinsella. She said it stung, but was a little more accepting of Mrs Kerr than Mike Healey. It must have been extremely embarrassing to stand on top of a desk and get whacked in front of a mixed class. It seems, though, that Mrs Kerr was the subject of ridicule, making Mike Healey laugh and Janice saying the cane was taller than her!

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History of the school: Another one from Denton! St Thomas More RC College located in Denton, Greater Manchester, England is a comprehensive school previously known as St Thomas More RC High School .St Thomas More has a roll of approximately 780 pupils and 40 teaching staff.
The school was opened in 1964 and gained Specialist College status in Mathematics and Computing in 2004. Following its designation as a high performing specialist college it was awarded a second specialism in Applied Learning in 2008 and awarded Leading Edge status in 2010.

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Incident Seven

School: Heywood Community High School, Sutherland Road, Heywood.

Year: 1975.

Pupil: Diane Lynch

Staff member: Mr Lee.

Text:

Taught maths. The most frightening teacher in school. He used to make you recite any of your tables from 2 to 12. Just picked on you as soon as he entered the lesson. If you were late with homework or caught messing about you had to pick between one hour detention or the famous slipper with his trusty plimsoll.

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My thoughts: Ah, a choice. A bit of railroading into taking the slipper here, maybe? At my school, and many others, it was half hour detention for homework lateness or messing around. Thus in this case did pupils think one hour was too long and opted for the slipper? Diane Lynch paints the picture of a teacher to fear. Thus was it more than one whack in place of the detention?

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History of the school.
Heywood Community High School achieved its best ever GCSE results during the year it was forced to close in January 2013.Seventy-one per cent of students achieved five A* to C grades including English and maths after six years of sustained improvement. The figure is one of the best in the borough and likely to make HCHS one of the most improved schools in the country. But it was a bittersweet success, for as students picked up their envelopes from the nearby Our Lady and St Paul’s Primary, their old school across Sutherland Road was being demolished.

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End of report

Looking forward to your responses

Best wishes,

Poor old Paul.
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Nov 04, 2017#78
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Well done Paul. All your examples seem authentic. While I reckon the cane for females was a rare occurrence the slipper was far more common and from personal experience hurt more than the cane.
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Nov 04, 2017#79
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Paul, thank you so much for relaying these overwhelmingly like likely events form the UK. Mine pale in comparison. Here are a few I take as more likely to be authentic. Why? It’s a local paper.

Here is one among many:

SanDee Spriggs. I remember back in the day third grade, my whole class had to line up to get paddled–several times. The good got it along with the bad! When I think back at the ‘weapons’ my teachers used all through elementary school, (boat oars, fan belts) I cringe.

CLICK

Not with the same degree of authenticity but of more recent vintage. Rarely have I heard of there being a choice of instruments.

Senior year kel and I got swats for leaving school at 3:00 she got to pick her paddle, I didn’t.

CLICK

Yaslyne Silva was a Texas Scholar. Enter name or scroll to Texas.

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In Pecos, Texas the they paddled a good number boys but still girls.

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A less recent posting with IMHO lesser authenticity but still worth sharing.

Is rather get two paddlings tomorrow, then Saturday school.

Does she mean two swats or two different sessions? At the high school level two swats are rarely the penalty. Multiple sessions are infrequent but still occur to satisfy the swat maximums.

CLICK

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Nov 05, 2017#80
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Hello, American Way,

It’s Paul: (Poor old…)

Good to hear from you. Thank you for your most interesting collection, here. We are extremely lucky to have someone like you on this forum to keep everybody updated on what’s going on your side of the pond. Many thanks.

I enjoyed reading the posts from Shannon Moxie Chick Bryan. A team effort, indeed. I admired the togetherness of the basketball squad. One girl messed up during the 1990s and they all took the paddling. I’ve read of similar cases from the U.S, and I’m sitting here wondering if that had been a group of English girls from a school basketball team, back in the day when we had SCP, if they would have acted in the same way?

I recall going on a tennis holiday to Saddlebroook, Florida, in 1987 and I noticed the support between the American junior squads. It was utterly palpable!

Ah, then Kel got swats for leaving campus at 3.30pm. I’d need to know more details before passing judgement on that one. Had Kel done this before, one wonders? And did she learn from this butt roasting?

While at Pecos HS, Texas 23% received ISS against 6.8% CP. Does that figure surprise you, ‘American Way? My knowledge is not up to yours, but it surprises me. I would have thought the CP stat would have been higher.

Alex Crawford I’m a tad confused about.

An excellent collection. I do collect R/L HS paddling incidents when I can find them. Goodness me, I know it was way back, now, but when the Amber Page incident hit these shores I was in orbit!!!

Thank you, again,. ‘American Way.’

Paul.
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Nov 05, 2017#81
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

It’s Paul,

Thank you for your response.

As you would have gathered by now, I use to ADORE Friends Reunited. For the little anecdotes we were all lucky enough to read, there shall never be anything quite like it. A sad day for me when FR closed down.

Yes, as you say, all very authentic. As I have said before, I was astounded to read about the actual amount of girls who received SCP. I was shocked. But we all have to accept that in the main, it was cane on the hands by a female member of staff, but of course lots of the slipper, too.

Thank you again, Bripuk
Best wishes,

Paul (Poor old).
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Nov 05, 2017#82
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Dealing with that badly behaved, bottle green wearing Lisa I assume. Oh that darn girl!

Paul (Poor old).
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Nov 06, 2017#83
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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i would like to include Heather Paul from paul’s post of november 4th in my list of those with the courage to resist… bravo for her valor in resisting the abuse of some twisted sadist in the long ago and way back… bravo
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Nov 09, 2017#84
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Best wishes,
Paul
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Nov 10, 2017#85
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Are there any further comments on the current collection? I do hope so.
Look forward to them
Best wishes,

Paul
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Nov 11, 2017#86
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Best wishes,

Paul
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Nov 25, 2017#87
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

It’s Paul:

Just a very small supplement to my recent FR posts.

I sit here eagerly awaiting the response from our esteemed fellow member, A.L, to the last batch that I sent. In fact, the excitement and anticipation of his response is getting the better of me!!!

Just four short posts enclosed, all from the same school:

Southmoor School, Ryhope Road, Sunderland.

Post one:

Pupil: Joseph Gordon.

Member of Staff: Mr Ridley

Date: Not known.

Text:

‘Mr Ridley. He once caned the whole class for poor test results –then realised he had set us the wrong test!!’

My thoughts:

Mmm, oh, deary me! One can easily laugh at this one. It sounds funny now, and is probably viewed with amusement by Joseph Gordon. In reality, it’s lamentable. If this happened in a school today then he would be in serious trouble. Standards are better, schools are better and teachers are paid very well, thank you very much. Thus, setting wrong tests would be unacceptable and questions would be asked. We have no date for this incident, but the other posts are from the ‘70’s and ‘80’s. Whatever the decade may have been, was it ever really ever acceptable to punish pupils for work that was not at the expected level? This was a mixed school, so girls got a whack, too. My thinking is one quick whack on the hand. Surely not every pupil could have done badly? But, of course, if the wrong test was set, then perhaps his pupils had not received the correct prep to answer the questions.
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Post Two

Pupil: Justine Langan

Member of staff: Mr Ridley……………………………..AGAIN!

Date: Not known

Text:

‘French teacher, Mr Ridley. Can we sue that French teacher retrospectively for giving us the cane again and again??’

My thoughts
It seems that he was a cane-happy teacher!!!
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Post Three:

Pupil: Beverley Nash

Member of staff: Mr Watt.

Date: 1985.

Text:

‘Mr Watt, headmaster- he gave me the cane once or twice….and the rest-ha ha! Not only on the palm of the hand, but the back….Ouch!’
My thoughts:

Is Beverley Nash sure?! On the back? Does she really mean ‘back….side,’ and is trying to conceal her blushes? I cannot even remotely imagine any school, private or state, caning pupils on the back as late as 1985. What we all know is that on Tyneside/Tyne Wear and the north-east, SCP was almost exclusively on the hand. We also know that lots of girls got whacked. I’d be shocked if a male head had a girl bend over for the cane. I have to say she seems quite blithe about it with the ‘Ha Ha!’
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Post Four.

Pupil: Sandra Reynolds.

Member of staff: Mr Morgan

Date: 1973.

Text:

‘Originally from Commercial Road School. Probably caned more pupils than any other teacher there! Very few misbehaved in his class as he had a habit of punishing the whole class for one person’s misdeeds!’

My thoughts:

It seems that this school had no issues with teachers caning the whole class. I would have thought parents would have had something to say about their son or daughter getting caned for something they had not done. So Sandra Reynolds said he caned more pupils than any other teacher. What, even more than Mr Ridley?

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History of the School

Southmoor Academy (formerly Southmoor Community School) is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in the Grangetown area of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear

Previously a community school administered by Sunderland City Council, Southmoor Community School converted to academy status in May 2012 and was renamed Southmoor Academy. However the school continues to coordinate with Sunderland City Council for admissions.
Southmoor Academy offers GCSEs and Cambridge Nationals as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels. Students can also take part in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programme.

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There are some other pretty good SCP FR posts from other schools in Sunderland that I shall save for a later date. Our esteemed member, A.L is already a long way behind and I need to give him time to catch up!!! Come along, A.L, let’s be having you………..unless of course you are having to deal with ‘Lisa’ once again!!!

Best wishes,

Paul

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Nov 25, 2017#88
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

More anon, once A.L has commented on the latest posts.

Thanks,

Paul
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Nov 26, 2017#89
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Hallo Paul

I think this:

Mr Watt, headmaster- he gave me the cane once or twice….and the rest-ha ha! Not only on the palm of the hand, but the back….Ouch!’

Is referring to the back of the hand, possibly she`d had the cane rapped lightly across her knuckles. Had she been caned on both hand and backside I would have thought she`d just say “Not only on the hand but also on the backside” or something similar. There would be no need to add `the palm` because that is normally obvious when referring to hand caning. I think she may have mentioned the palm specifically because she was going on to refer to the back of the hand.

Sorry I have not got around to replying to your latest school scenario. I do intend to, just got to find the time, I have a feeling that one could end up being rather long!

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Nov 26, 2017#90
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

You will get your response! It is ½ done, or rather ⅓ done now you’ve added the Sunderland stuff. Please accept my apologies for the delay, but the whacking of schoolgirls, even many years ago, is such a <s>fascinating</s> oops, sorry, serious matter that comment on it must be carefully weighed and not rushed.

Please do not get discouraged. I appreciate these incident related threads very much and I am sure others do also.</div>
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Nov 26, 2017#91
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

No, no, I appreciate that you have been extremely busy just recently………..It cannot be easy when I have bestowed upon you the disciplining of that wretched girl, Lisa! Every day a new misdemeanour!!! I gather that you have broken so many canes on her that the Bognor Cane Company can hardly keep up!

(Oh, we can all dream……).

Don’t worry about Sunderland. I have already given you enough work to do. As I said yesterday, there are a few interesting posts from the area to submit!!!

Luckily, I’m still here with you all!! I had a bit of a bad one last week. I nearly had an RTA that could have been extremely serious. My fault! I was heading towards East London, already quite stressed. I was driving a company car and got confused on a massive five exit roundabout. I realised I was in the wrong lane and tried to get over to the left. Then……BIB! I was simply inches away from a collision.

Well, as Elvis once sung, I was, ‘all shook up.’

Best wishes,

Paul
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Nov 27, 2017#92
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I hope your weekend has been grand. Thank you for your reply. It was appreciated.

After I switched of my laptop last night, I sat in an easy chair with a coffee and thought about the 1985 Mr Watt canings of Beverley Nash.’ Quite suddenly I thought that it could have been a rap over knuckles. I think you are correct. It’s the only logical answer. As you say, Beverley Nash says ‘palm of the hand’ then adds ‘back.’ Thank you for pointing this out.

I’m pleased that you enjoyed the posts. Your responses to threads are always so enjoyable.

Great that you intend to add your thoughts to the scenario of the girl visiting a public house during lunchbreak. I agree that time beats us all, sadly.
But your stated ‘long response’ is something I’m looking forward to reading.

Thank you, JD19.

Paul
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Nov 27, 2017#93
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Nov 28, 2017#94
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

It was lovely to hear from you. Many thanks.

I cannot even begin to say how much I appreciate both your responses and interests in these FR posts. It’s greatly appreciated.
You and me both regarding health issues while discussing Lisa’s bottle greens! I shall desist, indeed, and take you off of all caning duties. Since I’m likely to keel over, too, I shall also ‘abstain’ and ‘refrain’ from the ‘swish’ of the cane, and pass it over to somebody much younger than I.

Oh, we can dream!

I have noted the colour green in your lively array of brightness.
Yes, down to business.

Incident one:

Egerton Park High School, Tameside and the smacking by Miss Ainley.

Ah, we have the amoeba impersonating, Susan. I simply cannot imagine how she did this! With great flexibility and dexterity I would imagine, and maybe a biology student of great aptitude. It must have been extremely entertaining to watch, to the point that the other girls were howling with laughter I assume. But possibly being nude at the time? I strongly doubt this. Yes, I know it was all girls, but I’m uncertain about nudity. I think she might well have been in even more trouble prancing about in such a state of undress. Could she have had on a short nightie with no underwear on underneath? Then in bursts Miss Ainley who hits the roof, probably to the point of steam coming from her head. She takes hold of Susan and flips up the nightie and: Smack! Smack! We just don’t know.
I plump for pyjamas. In flies the furious Miss Ainley, grabs hold of Susan, whisks down the pyjama bottoms and two swift smacks. I’m probably a thousand miles out!. It’s the beauty of Friends Reunited
The other girls should have been punished by being made to peel double potatoes. (You dislike potatoes, A.L? Try oven chips! Yes? No?)

Incident Two:

Bev Whittaker and Mr Reed’s break time slipper club at Two Trees Community High School, Denton, Tameside, Greater Manchester in around 1980.

I love slipper clubs! As I said before, such clubs have come up on FR and other places before. Extremely interesting, indeed!! I also alluded to the fact that I thought the slipper wouldn’t have been too hard from the ‘great’ Mr Reed. Ah, yes, once again the ‘bread and circuses.’ I do believe you could be correct, here, and if you recall, we have agreed this quite a few times with other posts submitted. Without my checking, was Mr Stern one such mam? I think he was, if I recall.
I wonder if attending the slipper club was more than just one visit. I’m not suggesting slippered twice at all. I’m merely suggesting a pupil would come to the club for a chat over biscuits about their behaviour and how the pupil was going to correct his or her future behaviour. Then, a chat about their progress, or lack of it, in the given subject. Then WHACK! WHACK and back the next day for another friendly chat. Yes? No?
It’s interesting that it was 1980. It seemed SCP for girls increased a tad during that decade up until the ban, with the slipper for young ladies quite popular. But it was Manchester and that area was mainly a ‘strap on the hand’ place. We have discussed slipper on the hand and I wonder if that was the case here.

Incident Three

Heather Harrison and her encounter with Bob Treasure’s cuddly walloper at Caldew School, Dalston, Carlisle in 1969.

Mmm, Carlisle again!!! Colin West territory!! Did our Coin get his ideas from the likes of Bob Treasure in his method of pushing his luck with girls? This post is a beaut. That he went easier on n the girls I found so engaging!!! I’d love to know what the ratio was between the two sexes. What a pity nothing like this EVER happened at my school!!!
It’s a pity about the forum you once knew. How unique that he delegated a female classmate to carry out the punishment. That, I would have thought would have landed him in the soup with the school, as playful as it might well have been.

Incident 4: Fiona Brown’s encounter with bullies at St Aidan’s County High School, Lismore Place, Carlisle in 1975.

Indeed the great Coin. Of course he was correct to punish these girls for throwing peeper into the eyes of another girl. I agree with you, A.L, SCP was correct, here. My thinking is that at that time (1975) perhaps he kept things under control somewhat, although spanking girls by males would be regarded as something to be investigated. It depends on how he did it. Fiona says ‘spanked.’ Perhaps he adopted his ‘bending down on one knee, girl over the other knee’ approach and few quick slaps over the skirt were administered. Then, as I said before, I guess the more he got away with the more he took risks.
The ‘high school’ suggested by Fiona might not apply in this incident. Obviously Fiona eventually progressed to the high school, but Colin West was head of the lower school. It was the head of the high school that warned him in 1979 about his unorthodox methods in punishing girls. I would suggest these girls were all 13, maybe 14.

Thank you so much, A.L. I’m so heartened by the fact that you enjoy these posts.

With my very best wishes,

Paul

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Dec 13, 2017#95
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Paul here:

Now then! Now then! Now then!

Where is my friend and loyal deputy head, A.L? Has he decided not to respond to the remainder of the Friends Reunited posts? Has he grown tired of them, I wonder? I write because I cannot contain my excitement regarding his responses any longer! In fact, I’m nigh-near keeling over!!! LOL!
But in addition, in my files, I have found a M/FF school caning incident that took place in 1979, that is ‘alleged’ to be true. It’s from a letters page. I’d love to post it here in a new thread, if, however, there is the interest among our members. I do hope so.

The problem is, it’s quite a long piece and taking into account the speed that I type, it could take me about twenty years to complete.

Come along, A.L. Dig in! Finger out! The anticipation is getting the better of me! LOL!

Hope to hear from you soon

Best wishes,

Paul.
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Dec 14, 2017#96
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Fear not, I have not forgotten this thread! Alas pressure of activities consequent upon the festive season has restricted both my on-line time and powers of concentration. And as I’ve said in the past, commenting on how to save the world or aspects of deep moral issues can be done quickly and with very little effort, but dealing with the SCP of schoolgirls, that takes time and concentration!

The outstanding will appear soon. Meantime I can only offer apologies for the delay.

You said above:

<div style=”padding-left:40px;padding-right:40px;font-style:italic;”>….. in my files, I have found a M/FF school caning incident that took place in 1979, that is ‘alleged’ to be true. It’s from a letters page. I’d love to post it here in a new thread, if, however, there is the interest among our members. I do hope so.

The problem is, it’s quite a long piece and taking into account the speed that I type, it could take me about twenty years to complete.</div>
Just an idea, but are you familiar with OCR (Optical Character Recognition)? I’m no expert, although I dabbled a bit many years ago. Of people here I seem to recall that KK knows his way around the subject.

Basically you use a computer <s>program</s> oops, sorry, app to convert an image of text into a file containing editable text you can copy, paste and otherwise manipulate. The most common way to produce the input image is by scanning a paper document. However a good quality well lit digital image from a camera or ‘phone can be virtually as good as a scan. The OCR app then takes the image and converts it to a file in editable format. If you have a reasonable quality document to start with the results can be very accurate indeed, requiring little if any correction.

Depending on your source, if you have access to a scanner or a good digital camera of some sort you might be able to save yourself a lot of typing. If your source is a funny font, creased, stained, faded, yellowed or has a coloured background you’d probably need a very good app and a lot of time to learn to use it. However if you can produce a reasonably crisp, sharp and properly aligned image of the text in, ideally, black text on white ground, it may be worth you trying OCR. I can’t presently comment on free apps, of which there are several, but I have just tried a couple of free on-line services.

http://www.newocr.com

and

http://www.myfreeocr.com

Both are pants with poor quality input but work well with good quality. Both are easy to use. I used JPEG (.jpg) files but they also take other common formats such as PNG. Both offer two or more formats for the editable output file you download but I stuck to the ‘text’ option, which can be opened readily on just about any OS (Notepad in Windows).

I don’t want to waste your time, but if you were contemplating lots of typing it might be worth a quick go at OCR. If photographing your source you’d probably need to do it in sections anyway, so try one section. If that doesn’t work don’t waste more time. If the document is in columns, as most newspapers are, best stick to a column at a time. If it works you can copy/paste the various sections into one document to post.</div>
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Dec 15, 2017#97
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Hello, A.l,
Firstly, thank you kindly for forwarding the links and information regarding converting the pages of my printed document.

At present a scanner, no, but I certainly have a selection of DSLR cameras, so that’s the easy part!!! The issue is the pages are in extremely poor condition, but I can only but try.Thank you. I have looked at the links and I shall see if I can make some progress over the weekend.
If not, it’ll be fingers to the keyboard.

I do hope the alleged caning shall be of interests to our members.

I trust that you are keeping well and looking forward to Christmas.
I agree, things such as SCP cannot be rushed!!
Best wishes,

Paul
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Dec 15, 2017#98
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

If the source text is in bad condition I doubt that you’ll have much success with the on-line OCR facilities even with a DSLR. My experiments with less than good samples were not encouraging. However if you are into DSLRs I guess you’ll be familiar with a graphics package too. If you can get a contrasty and reasonably sharp image cropped to the text you want with a small margin round it it might just do the trick. I’ll be interested to hear how you get on but I wouldn’t want you to waste time on my recommendation. I wish I could advise on other free programs available but sadly I can’t at present.</div>
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Jan 13, 2018#99
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

It’s Paul:

Happy New Year to you all!!

I’m so much looking forward to some interesting discussion during the coming months.
Just a couple of ‘Friends Reunited’ posts from my collection. I hope you enjoy them. There are many that I’d love to add, but I’m a little unsure if there’s the interest among members regarding this thread. I do hope there is.
And where is my friend and ‘loyal deputy head,’ A.L, gone? He who promised responses to the outstanding submission I made in December. Now come along, A.L! Let’s be having you………..LOL!

To the posts:

The issue of teachers giving their implements of correction names has been discussed before on this thread. Here is yet another, if very brief, example:

School: Chesterton Community College, Gilbert Road, Cambridge.

Pupil. Charlotte Hipkin.

Member of Staff: A male art teacher. His name has seemingly escaped former pupils.

Year: 1979.

Text:

Who was the male art teacher who had a pink rubber strap which he called ‘The Pink Panther?’ He used to hit the boys with it. He had a slipper reserved for the girls.

In response, another pupil posted:

Pupil: Saskia Bennett.

Year: 1980.

Text:
I remember the unknown art teacher, can’t remember his name, but I recall his strap being called ‘The Pink Persuader.’ Perhaps I’ve embellished it over the years because of all the bad dreams I had, but I remember telling my parents about it and they looked very concerned.

Cambridge CC SCP regulations at that time:

None! It says, quote: ‘CP is at the discretion of the headteacher.’

My thoughts:

Quite odd this one. For me, if the unknown art teacher’s repute was as bad as our second poster suggests, with her ‘bad dreams, then surely pupils would have remembered his name. Even the actual name of the strap is uncertain. In our junior school, we had a male teacher who used an enormous, heavy black book on boys, only, for a short while. But it was all in jest. One whack and that was it. I wonder if this was similar. The girls never actually got the pink strap, so why the worry? Although the slipper did…….await for the girlies!…… Any thoughts?

****

School: St Peter’s School. St Peter’s Road, Huntingdon.

Pupil: Gilly Lines.

Member of staff: Mrs Wagner.

Year: not known.

Text.

Does anyone remember Mrs Wagner? She caned me once, but before she did it, with Mrs Strong present, she asked me my name, even though she taught me Latin. Now that was a really important language to learn. I hated it.

Regulations: None listed

My thoughts.

Mrs Wagner taught Gilly Lines. Yet, before caning her she asked what her name was. Ah, well, you see, Gilly, it was all part of keeping the matter formal. It was a solemn occasion and it was all part of building the trepidation. Maybe a couple of extra strokes for Gilly’s thoughts on Latin???

***

School: St Wilfred’s. Bank Top, Blackburn

Pupil: David Parker

Member of staff: Mr Smith

Year; Not known

Text.

Mr Smith strapping young girls (I swear you could see the pleasure in his eyes) in his dinky lower-school office.

Regulations: I’m assuming Blackburn would have come under Lancs CC, who like Cambridge, had no regulations, and thus, it was at the headteacher’s discretion.

My thoughts:

It’s abundantly clear David Parker felt there was something wrong in the way Mr Smith strapped girls. He has actually witnessed the pleasure in Mr Smith’s eyes. I’m assuming he must have been in the office on occasion when Mr Smith administered the strap to girls. If David Parker was indeed a pupil, you would imagine he would have only been strapped with a girl on extremely rare occasions, if only once. But wait a moment: was David Parker a teacher and acted as a witness? I’m unsure, but it’s possible. Surely if Mr Smith was strapping girls in an unorthodox manner, for example, too hard, or, on the buttocks, then he might well have done without a witness. With a witness surely common sense would prevail and he’d mask the glint in his eye and stick to the regulations. I notice these were lower school girls.

**********

I hope you enjoy this small collection. Thank you all.

Best wishes,

Paul

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Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Its Paul:

I hope we have all had a good start to the week!!!

Does anyone have any thoughts on the latest submissions that I added on Saturday morning, from my Friends Reunited collection? I do hope so. I’d love to hear members’ thoughts. Thank you.

However, if there is no longer any interest in FR posts on here than I will gladly refrain from posting them.

A.L, have you seen the latest additions and are you still intending to respond to the balance of the maim bulk that I sent in December? Thank you.

Best wishes,

Paul
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Jan 15, 2018#101
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Paul, I appreciate your postings and even more so if more contemporary stories (paddle swats) draw your attention let us know. American Way
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Jan 15, 2018#102
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Lovely to hear from you.

I will have to go through my American high school files when time allows.
I was a tad green back in the day when I began collecting U.S high school incidents. I believed them all to be true…….but now I’m not so green!!!!

Keep in touch

Best wishes,

Paul
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Jan 15, 2018#103
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jan 16, 2018#104
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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well high schools in america paddle tens of thousands of girls on the bottom every year. while individual incidents may be obvious fiction, you can’t really go all “lotta nonsense” in the states when it comes to the issue… there are virtually unlimited untold stories and almost anything is possible especially back 30 years or so. on the other hand a couple of creepy contributions on the subject(that received no replies at all) a week or so ago seemed to clearly be rather distasteful fantasy.
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Jan 16, 2018#105
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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Jan 16, 2018#106
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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dane may be referring to the two posts made on January 6th. by our highly-valued Featured Member, Emily.
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Jan 16, 2018#107
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Thank you Manager of the Featured.

Dane, in my experience Manager of the Featured is invariably correct about such matters so I hope very much that you will accept my apologies for my wrong assumption.

I have to say though that I don’t find Emily’s posts creepy. She is, as Manager of the Featured states, a highly-valued fellow contributor. Emily appears to be only 3 years younger than me, and as I sometimes find difficulty in remembering the events of last week I am greatly in awe of her ability to recall minute details of clothing and conversations after 60 years!</div>
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Jan 16, 2018#108
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Thank you very much for your FR extracts. Very definitely appreciated by me. I would guess most are reasonably genuine.

Sadly many of us are let down by our memory at times. My only school CP was when I was slapped across the back of the head by a (good) teacher at age 6 or 7. I cannot remember her name – even though I have some work books from the class. I also cannot remember anyone else in my classes receiving CP in my 3 years of infants school in England in the late 1950s. This seems hard to believe although years ago somebody on FR described my “nursery” class teacher (at a different school) as “everybody’s favourite”.

I also apologise for not contributing to your hypotheticals. However there are too many variables for me. Now I would basically oppose CP, mainly on the grounds of ineffectiveness. However the 1980 me probably would have had a different opinion.
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Jan 18, 2018#109
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

This is my first attempt at posting since my formatting problems so hopefully all will be well with this!!

It is always interesting to see how FR posts are interpreted by yourself and other posters, thank you for taking the time to present them here and I hope you will continue to do so.

I tend to agree with you that it seems a little odd, if the art teacher had such an affect as to give bad dreams, his name should be forgotten. Of course she may have meant the whole of her school experience was the stuff of nightmares but she does seem to be suggesting the art teacher disturbed her somewhat.

Possibly neither of the two posters were ever taught by him and had only heard the rumours of his Pink Persuader/Panther therefore are less likely to be able to recall his name but again it does seem strange the second poster can`t remember his name if, as I believe, she appears to be implying he gave her nightmares! Maybe she did know his name but just didn’t`t like to name him publicly but then I gather ( never used FR) the whole point of that site was to talk to old school mates and discuss school life which would include talking about teachers.

It is perfectly possible the girls were worried or disturbed by the teacher and his Pink strap even if they were never going to be in receipt of it, what they saw or heard may have bothered them or indeed the use of his slipper may be cause of worry, but I get the feeling that is not the case, the Pink Persuader/Panther seems to be the issue and frankly I`m not surprised, if my daughter had come home telling me her art teacher had a pink rubber strap in his drawer I`d be a bit concerned!!

The girl who says she was asked her name by her Latin teacher before she was caned does not surprise me at all. I doubt the teachers knew every name of every pupil in their class, unless you were exceptionally good or exceptionally bad you just sat in class and got on with it fairly anonymously.

What I imagine happened here is Mrs Wagner had responsibility for disciplining girls, the girl having committed some crime in Mrs Strong`s class or was caught by Mrs Strong doing something she oughten i.e. smoking, was taken to be dealt with by Mrs Wagner who duly obliged but thought she`d best ask her name as it would have to be entered in the punishment book, or maybe she sent Mrs Strong to fetch her and was checking to ensure the correct girl had been delivered!

The final post is most interesting in relation to how you have interpreted it.

You suggest the poster David Parker may have been present when Mr Smith used the strap on lower year girls, you assume this due to David Parker saying “I swear you could see the pleasure in his eyes”

I don`t think he meant literally he could see pleasure as he applied the strap, in my opinion it`s just a figure of speech.

Mr Smith may have been head of the lower school and as such had responsibility for discipline of said years, the school saw no reason to appoint a female to deal with the girls so Mr Smith dealt with both sexes. At my school anyone caught talking or messing about in assembly got sent to wait outside the appropriate office, the result was usually the cane. Possibly this was the same at David Parker`s school, Mr Smith as head of lower school would have taken some assembles and may have appeared a little enthusiastic when ordering a girl to wait outside his office. Likewise he probably taught at least part of the day and maybe in his lessons he seemed to be keen to get the chance to tell a girl to see him in his office after the lesson had finished.

If Mr Smith gave any kind of impression he was keen to strap girls that would give rise to the look of pleasure in his eyes remark. He didn’t`need to be seen doing anything out of the ordinary or indeed do anything out of the ordinary just the idea he may have enjoyed strapping the girls would be enough to state `I swear you could see the look of pleasure I his eyes`

It didn`t take much for rumours to start at school, often they were not spoken about until leaving school ( that is in my experience) then jusitfied or not, such rumours were openly discussed. In my opinion that is what is behind David Parkers remark, he is either repeating a rumour he heard about Mr Smith or voicing his own suspicions.

Of course I may be way off the mark and you may be entirely correct

Hopefully the format will be fine on this post, but if not and he is reading this could Another_Lurker kindly correct it for me.
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Jan 18, 2018#110
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Looks great to me, and excellent to see you contributing.

If the problem should recur at any time I shall of course take action as before.</div>
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Jan 18, 2018#111
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

It’s Paul:

I hope I find you well.

Ah, good to see you have noted/filed all the posts that you’ve not commented on. Good work! But, Poor Old Paul,’ here, has been holding his breath for some time, only letting go for a few excited pants, awaiting your replies in nigh-near desperation!!! LOL!
Yes, I did see the Sibton Park thread submitted by Rachael. I have added comment on that very interesting thread, which, no, I have not heard about before.

I’m not convinced that too many here are interested in the FR posts. Oliver Sydney makes a good point, and may I say, thank you, Oliver, for contributing, and happy New Year. Oliver says, quote:

“There are too many variables for me.”

I understand that. I also respect that many of the folk here are extremely busy struggling with a work/homelife balance. (Well for me, there isn’t a balance!!! It’s just work. If I don’t get to retirement age soon, I shall shoot myself!!!).
It’s my belief that in ten years’ time, there will be even less interest in factual SCP in this country. We have to remember SCP was banned over thirty years ago in the UK. People younger than most of us on this esteemed forum, hardly know what SCP is, let alone have an interest. In ten years that figure will grow. And our numbers would have sadly diminished.

Yes, yes, there shall always be ‘spankos,’ there shall always be those who like school role play, or going to St Trinians theme nights, perhaps even reading fiction. But actual discussion on factual SCP??? It shall come to pass when, in the UK, nobody would have experienced getting SCP. We all have a thing about it because we grew up with it.

Perhaps some will take to task with this. But here is another point. Let’s take SCP fiction. I write it and have done for years. But the number of SCP fiction writers has diminished rapidly. Some of the good writers from the 1970’s and 1980s have sadly passed away. And they have been replaced by those writing romantic novellas, cowboy spanking themes, period drama spanking, and erotica. I don’t want to either read or write any of that tripe! I’m into school! And I like to read other school writers’ work. But there simply aren’t any! So it goes back to what I’m saying. It’s eroding now and give ten years there shall be little discussion on SCP, with no new factual accounts emerging and certainly no writing.

I suspect that in the U.S, it’s a little different because American SCP is still allowed.

Like you, A.L, I too, like healthy debate and challenging each other. But it’s not forthcoming and too many good threads simply die. Since I’ve been a member here, I’ve seen some excellent contributors come and go. Marie, for example, who was an ex-head of a primary school, if I recall. I so much enjoyed talking to her. She seemed so keen to contribute We had Lisa. One could have fun and good banter chatting with Lisa.

And on this depressing response, I shall go to bed…………because I’ve got to go to work in the morning! I really cannot wait,………I don’t think!

Poor old Paul!!!!………LOL!
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Jan 18, 2018#112
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Thank you for contributing. I always look forward to your responses.

I did, at last, get around to responding to you regarding your excellent contribution on my ‘Its School Scenario Time YIPEE’ thread. (The one where the girl of 16 visits a pub to meet her boyfriend, despite the headmaster’s warning during assembly). It was a great read. Thank you. Do have a look at some point. Thank you.

As I said on an earlier post on this thread, sadly, I must go to bed. Thus, I shall reply to your thoughts on the FR posts tomorrow.
Thank you so much, JD19!
Bye,
Paul
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Jan 21, 2018#113
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Hello, JD19,

Lovely to hear from you, as always And good to see that those formatting issues that darkened your day is at an end. I wish I could say the same my infamous TYPO issues! I guess when you have custard fingers it’s hard to abate!!!

I’m both very heartened and extremely appreciative that someone has given me such an excellent response that I can get my teeth into. I always look forward to your replies, JD19! THANK YOU!!!

I have hundreds of FR posts submitted by former female pupils. Quite a few were found by me back in the great days of FR, but I owe a great gratitude an old associate of mine who found the main bulk and kindly shared them with me. To think there was somebody else who was more enthusiastic about FR than me is unpalatable!!! LOL!

To your responses:

School: Chesterton Community College, Gilbert Road, Cambridge.

Pupils: Charlotte Hipkin and Saskia Bennett

Member of Staff: A male art teacher. His name has seemingly escaped former pupils.

Ah, the art teacher with ‘The Pink Panther’/ or ‘Pink Persuader.’ It’s so difficult with these tantalising little anecdotes to understand what actually happened. For me, it’s what made FR so exciting. I’d sit at home in my favourite leather easy chair and ty to imagine what happened, and, hopefully get to the ‘bottom’ (No pun intended!!!) of things!
You and I appear to be in agreement that if this art teacher was so feared, why was his name forgotten? There is the passing years factor, I guess! I accept it’s quite worrying that the actions of a teacher could give rise to a young girl experiencing nightmares.
As a younger pupil, certain teachers had a similar adverse effect on me. I was a small, inhibited boy, especially in my junior years. I recall a teacher in my junior school called Mr Spinks. I lived in fear of him. He never taught me, nor as far as I can remember, ever spoke to me. Quite often during assembly, if somebody spoke or fidgeted, he would step from the side of the hall, grab the boy (It was always a boy), roil up the boy’s sleeve and slap his bare arm repeatedly. I saw this several times and it had an effect on me. He never failed to leave a boy in tears. I recall that he wore ‘hush puppies,’ grey flannels and a tweed sports jacket. Simply a horrid man. We had a PE teacher at my senior school that was fond of twisting a boy’s ear! I used to go to bed in fear of these two teachers.
So I take your point, JD19, that Charlotte Hipkin and Saskia Bennett may not have been taught by the this ‘pink strap whacking’ art teacher, but rumours spread rapidly in schools. But, if girls didn’t get the pink strap, why were they so affected? I’d have thought the slipper would have worried them more, as that was what the girls got. Was it because the witnessed results of a whacking with the pink strap was so effective that it scared them quite terribly? Or, was it his actual demeanour that inflated their fears? We shall never know……sadly.

School: St Peter’s School. St Peter’s Road, Huntingdon.

Pupil: Gilly Lines.

Member of staff: Mrs Wagner.

I did enjoy this post and your responses had me thinking. Thank you so much. I said in my original response that Mrs Wagner did this to add effect of to install a level of fear; to keep it formal and to drive home the seriousness of the situation. But your thoughts have a lot of merit. It could be to do with the correctness of adding Gilly Lines’ name in the punishment book. I agree with you. But most importantly, had Mrs Strong brought the correct pupil? Good thinking, JD19. I suppose it could be that Mrs Wagner did not teach Latin to Gilly every lesson, although there is no indication of that. For me, if she took Gilly for Latin every week, the she should recall her name. I conclude it was either for the reasons you point out, or to add to the ritual of a school caning.

School: St Wilfred’s. Bank Top, Blackburn

Pupil: David Parker

Member of staff: Mr Smith

If David Parker says, ‘You could see the pleasure in his (Mr Smith) eyes,’ then surely he must have seem something. I cannot see it being a handed down rumour. He must have seen something in some capacity. But which capacity??? A.L, do you have any theories?
Perhaps you have got the correct angle, JD19. You suggest Mr Smith taking assembly, a girl misbehaves during it and Mr Smith tells the girl to go wait outside his office. That might have been where David Parker saw the pleasure in Mr Smith’s eyes. That is from upon the stage during assembly.

Perhaps my thoughts of David Parker being a teacher who acted as witness to the strappings of girls, may have been off the mark? A.L, any thoughts?

JD19, I cannot thank you enough for your response to this post. Your thoughts are very much appreciated. To think, thus far, you are the only one who has. This leads me to think is it worth adding any more FR posts? I have so many here that I’d love to add to our forum. But if there isn’t the interest, there’s little point.

A.L, I’m still sitting here panting in anticipating regarding your responses to those incidents outstanding. If I hold my breath any longer, I shall burst!!! LOL! I cannot wait to hear back from you.

Best wishes, all!

Paul.
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Jan 21, 2018#114
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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You have revived a memory of yesteryear! I think I know exactly what the “Pink Persuader” strap was, it was a rubber book strap. I can’t find an original photograph on Google, although modern versions exist. I had one but it perished and went in the bin years ago.

Before the days of duffel bags, school bags were quite small for carrying books. A rubber book strap was a strip of thick but elastic rubber, about a foot long and an inch wide with an oval loop, two or three inches long, at each end. You took a pile of two or three textbooks and stretched the looped ends of the strap around them, then the middle part of the strap acted as a carrying handle. The strap I had was a pinkish-red colour.

In addition to being useful for carrying books it could also be used as a formidable weapon, using one end to lash the leg of an unsuspecting fellow pupil and leaving a distinctive red mark in the shape of the loop. Although usually used in fun, it did hurt quite a lot. I can imagine a teacher using one, but because of the marks it left, it was more likely to be used on boys than girls.
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Jan 22, 2018#115
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Please keep posting! Tell me it isn’t so.

American Way

Porky Pie on January 21, 2018 at 10:22: “I shan’t post anymore for fear of upsetting a waste of space like you.”

CLICK
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Jan 22, 2018#116
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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I’m sorry if you feel your posts are not appreciated Paul, as far as I’m concerned that’s not the case. I’m not the best at responding to posts and don’t post that much myself, but I do read the forum most days. Stick around . Regarding various incarnations of Lotta over the years in my opinion they really aren’t worth worrying about.
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Jan 24, 2018#117
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Thank you that. It was appreciated
I’m pleased you enjoy the forum.

Best wishes,

Paul
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Jan 24, 2018#118
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Hope you are well

Excellent information! I think you could be correct regarding the pink strap that the mystery art teacher used on boys, not girls, at Chesterton Community College in Cambridge.

I have not seen one, nor used one in school, but it ties in nicely with it possibly being the kind of strap the art teacher used. You describe yours as being a bright colour. As was the art teacher’s. It seems the kind of thing a teacher might well have used to carry his or her exercise books for taking home to mark, back in the day! Not just the pupils! A teacher’s bag is often full.

The dimensions tie in, too. And it could be nice and handy to whip out of a jacket pocket at the source of classroom disruption! Quick and easy!

I would guess the rubber/elastic mix would prove quite painful on a palm, or, as you suggest, a leg.

Thank you for your contribution, Hcj.
Bye,

Paul.
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Feb 07, 2018#119
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

Its Paul:

I went through my FR collection today and there are so many more that I’d love to add here!

Going through some other files, I found a thick file in my filing cabinet that I hadn’t gone through for years, headed. ‘Schoolgirl Bits.’ I started this file during the late 1980s and its full of little ‘bits and bobs’ that I’d found, overheard and had asked girls about in the past, plus some good school factual incidents.

Is anybody interested in seeing some of these posts? They are all in printed format, so it means typing them out. I have no problem with that as most are short and punchy. However, if there isn’t the interest than naturally I shan’t do so. Keep me posted, members. Thank you.

A.L, are you still going to respond to the last batch of FRs? I do hope so. I’m still holding my breath in excitement and nigh-near at bursting point. LOL!

Best wishes,

Paul
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Feb 08, 2018#120
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Would absolutely love to see them
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Feb 08, 2018#121
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

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2015holyfamilypenguin
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Feb 08, 2018#122
Hello, all,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Also, I trust you had an excellent Christmas.

Friends Reunited.

South Holderness School, Station Road, Preston. PUPIL: Heather Nicholson. Year of her leaving: 1970.

” Mrs Pogson: Deputy headmistress with blue hair! Thought nothing of getting a size 8 plimmy out and whacking you across a bare backside.”

Well, ask I, is this a made up one? Is it written by a spanko? I think, in the main, the overwhelming percentage of FR posts relating to being whacked at school are genuine. But this one? Is it?

I’d love your feedback and thoughts……..maybe the naughty Lisa should have been acquainted with Mrs Pogson!!!
Let me check the school.
Again all of you, have a successful 2017
Paul.
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Paul. I don’t bother with Facebook. You might consider copy/pasting some of those entries. American Way
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Jun 30, 2019#123
South Holderness School is or was a coeducational comprehensive senior school in Preston village, East Yorkshire to the east of the city of Hull. It was not a private school but a local authority school. I grew up in Hull. I do on one occasion remember in the late 1960s or early 1970s being in the neighbouring village of Hedon after the end of afternoon school with my older brother when the school bus, actually a coach went past with some of the boys waving a pair of school girl knickers out of the window. So i can confirm that there were definitely some boisterous teenagers at that school.

Back in the Saddle

Jestyn Austen Plantagenet Phillipps dished out boat club whacking to girls & boys

Watching boys being caned in front of class – who else liked it?

corporal punishment in girls schools.

Southern Education

Six of the Best-who actually had the full six

spanking as a form of sex abuse (some definite non-fiction)

Then & Now

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