Interesting to see someone who also experienced Mrs McArthy’s sadistic nature. She often used to spank me hard, even pulling down knickers in front of the whole class. Then she worked out I was deaf as her discipline didn’t work! My mother was grateful she helped us find out, but I was terrified of her. Horrible woman. Claire Leigh (née Tucker) Seaford County Primary
well my memories of that horrible nasty place that has ruined my life and chances are alot worse than some, but are still remembered by a few as well. My family and I had our lives made absolute HELL by Jack Lightbown and especially Jerry Hart. I was the one who was dragged to Jerry Harts desk every day and sometimes twice, and he would put me over his knee and say to the class, “Well what should I hit her with today?” and he would spank me with the slipper or a ruler, or his hand but it was the pulling down of my pants and the stroking of my little bottom before being put over his knee that makes my stomach turn even now. Kate Price (née Deakin) Clevelands Preparatory School
Having to bend over the chair in their front room for the cane (several times) Michelle Hadfield (née Symonds) Winton House
i remember that arm chair for the cane only too well. Lisa Hawkins (née Porter) Winton House
Yes I remember Mr Duckworth,I got caned from him a couple of times once for nothing,I had not done anything wrong except breath,and Mr almond who use make you bend over and he would hit with a sandshoe in front of the class. By Anne Wood (née Crompton) Hill View Junior School
Miss Height
Often wondered what became of this wonderful woman. I sincerely owe an awful lot to her old school ways and that huge,”Bend over and touch your toes” off-white floppy gym slipper. Which incidentally I received on one occasion when I wasn’t guilty! Claire Gard (Surely not! Ed.) Heathrow Primary
mrs greaves
Can anyone remember Mrs Greaves? She used to read us The Borrowers stories out of a big book. If you didnt copy her writing exactly as she wrote it, you had to go to the front of the class, bend over, touch your toes and get smacked. Deborah Nicholson West Lane Primary School.
Mr Snaith
He once belted me across the backside infront of the whole class, I hated him. No one wanted to be in his class because he was so strict. Julie Watts West Lane Primary School
the only thing i can really remember is getting the pump from the sports teacher. He made me bend over in a class full of kids and it really hurt as well…. wouldnt get away with doing it now! Margy Tomlinson Upper Park Street School
The only unpleasant memory I have of “upper parky” was being hit with a large pump on the bottom by another Mr Ashton I think. He was younger than the other teachers and taught sports. Gillian Oughterson (née Collins) Upper Park Street School
Mr.Brown. I have a vivid memory of him because he made me bend over the desk whilst I was hit with the ruler….why, well I was caught talking to the boys in the corridor…a big no no when one was walking from class to class, I was so embarrassed. Janette Hines (née Cartwright) Acocks Green Junior School
mr young
remember he used to call you out to the front of the class if you were naughty and bend over and whack and by golly it hurt.mind you thought that he was dishy. Amanda Mabey (née Buxey) Aldermoor Junior School
Mr Ogden, we will never forget cross marks the spot on the floor, bend over then whack with the beloved slipper HENRY. Sara Cautley Brunswick Junior High School
And I remember the slipper, only had it once and that was enough. Ann Swindon (née Willow) Brunswick Junior High School
Yes I remember Mrs Slack, country dancing and sewing lessons and speeches on a Friday afternoon and the wretched cane which I experienced once! Jackie Noble (née Prudom) Hipswell CofE Primary School
I also remember miss buckley because she smacked me on the bum in front of the whole class for running in the corridor. good old days of school hey. Carol Mills (née Middlehurst) Sacred Heart RC Primary School
Mr Broom was my form teacher when I was in top Juniors (1967/8) He once smacked my mum on the bum and told her to get back to her class. He was mortified when he realised that he had just smacked the school secretary! Lesley Knight (née Benton) Tollgate Primary School
being bent over the teachers knee and smacked a few times i remember that very well and then running home and that was in the first class
Margie Jennison (née Duthie) Meadow Well Primary School
Oh my god Mrs Rawlings was SOOOOOO SCARY !!!!! She hit me on the head with a recorder , then put me over her knee and smacked me in fromt of her whole class . What a witch ….. Susan Kruyer Preston Grange Primary School
I remember being scared to death of Miss.Powell and thought the world of Mrs.Wallwork……..
Till one day she put me over her knee in front of the whole class for spraying Margaret Stuttard at the water fountain.I’ll remember
that till I die !!! Lorraine Jones (née Procter) Green Haworth CofE School
Miss Davies
I had her as my teacher in std 1 and std 3 she was a dragon couldn’t stand her. When the children were naughty she put them over her knee. She did that to me once in std 1 and my mum went to the school and complained. She never did it again. Mo Hart (née Davies) Radnor Road School
Miss Offord was our teacher – extremely strict but gifted. I clearly remember being put over her knee to have my bottom smacked for scraping my chair! What would she do today?!! Ann Lacey William Patten Primary School
any one remember Mr Thompson, drop dead gorgeous at Mountfield around 1959, I remember going over his knee for sending secret messages to my friend what a pleasure, those were the days. Lynda Young (née Reynolds) Mountfield Primary School
I remember Miss Howe asking me to stand at the front of the class, next to her and read Janet and John aloud. I was 4 years old and i got stuck on the word “aeroplane”. She was so angry at me that she pulled down my pants in front of the whole class, pulled me over her lap and spelt out aeroplane in smacks on my bottom…… I was sure she hated me and i was terrified of her!….. I don’t think i know anyone that wasn’t scared of Miss Howe and all for good reason. Kelda Richards (née Thornton) Mullion County Primary School
Mrs Duffy was my favourite teacher – I was spanked several times by her exposing my big blue knickers to all in 2D!! I used to write stories with her included i.e. Duffy and I in Professor Brainstorm type stories – she kept some of my books – can I have them back please??? Miss Furness scary lady alway used to threaten the cane and ooh a shudder runs down my spine. Carol Ann Falcon (née Parriss) Moor Park Junior School
Mr. G. Self was the Headmaster when I went to Ringmer school in the 1950’s. Mrs. Spong was chief dinner lady. One day I stole Luther Birkins’ fountain pen (real ink) ‘cos I coveted it, my dad found out & Mr. Self put me over his knees in his office & spanked my bottom over my navy blue school knickers – Mrs. Spong was there as a witness. Yes, it taught me that stealing is wrong & you get punished when (not if) found out!!!
Does anyone remember a really mean old sister who used to pull your pants down and smack you in front of the class? Now there’s an advert for Roman Catholicism. Rosie Beasley St Philomena’s RC Primary
i had many canes from mrs salter, you had to touch your toes and she would touch your bum with her cane and take two steps back then come at you as tho she was playing hockey, she was one mean woman!sent in by georgina hunt left school xmas 1957. Georgina Nelhams (née Hunt) Hampden School
I was poked in the back during fire drill by my friend. I was the one caught turning round so I had to have the slipper, by the deputy. His name was something like Mr Madlin???? someone must remember Alison Mcdowell (née Hartley) Ings Primary School
Mrs. Cross could actually be very nice, but I got a ‘smack bottom’ one day, for talking in the cloakroom – mind you, it did me no harm!! God forbid they smack anyone today – no wonder behavioural problems have escalated so much!! Philippa Van Diver (née Davies) Kingsham County Primary School
Ahhhhhh Mrs Toft I remember her so well. She once put me over her knee and smacked my bottom for lying about eating chewing gum! Gina Jeana Pickering (née Boardman) Disley County Primary School
Was caned by Mrs Moss (Fanny) – she caned the whole class for talking while she was out of the room. Rosemary Hackett (née Adlard) Christ Church CofE Primary School
Miss Divers was VERY strict. She caned me twice for talking too much. I remember that I was wearing shorts under my dress because we were going to have P.E. that day and when she went to hit the back of my legs with the cane she got all annoyed because I had first the dress, then a frilly petticoat, then the shorts. Whacked me harder because of it I think. Mr. Watters was nice, though he too used to use a ruler to hit you across the knuckles if you misbehaved. Lynn Nugent Barrow Grove Junior School
I remember receiving a severe smacking on the bum from Mrs hunter (aka Barbara Cartland lookalike) when I (accidently) knocked the top front teeth out from a boy in her class. I was 5 at the time and he and his mate were teasing me when I was playing “Queenie, Queenie who’s got the ball…” so I threw a stone at him to make him go away – bullseye! Then to go home and get the same again from my mum!! Fiona Mains Fordbank Primary School
Smacked bums!!!
Mrs Williams gave me the choice one day and said that Mrs Boydell smacked real hard but for a short while and she smacked softer but for twice as long. Who do you want? Kate Gardner (née Lee) Lympsham Primary School
Miss Macreadie
I hated this woman with a vengence – I was a very quiet girl throughout my school life but she once caught me whispering to someone sat next to me in assembly.
When we got back to the classroom she made me lean over the desk in front of everyone else and she whacked me really hard on the back of the legs with a ruler – several times.
My legs were bruised for a week after that – I can remember wetting my knickers it hurt so much and I felt so humiliated. Sheila Baldwin Ashwell Junior High School
The Headmistress, Miss Standing was a fearsome woman. She once bent me over the desk in her office and spanked me for forgetting to hand in my dinner money (one shilling!). I was very shocked and humiliated but pretended not to care, although I did care very much and I can remember the incident clearly even though it must have happened over 35 years ago. Linda Egan Glebe County Junior School
I also was bent over a desk by this lady but in front of the whole class. Apparently because I didn`t want to play netball in P.E.
Janet Christmas (née Seal) Glebe County Junior School
I remember Mrs Cook best. Despite the habit she had of pulling up your dress and smacking you on the meaty part of your thigh if you were naughty, she is the teacher I am most grateful for. Jacqui Glowacki (née Hurley) Knowsley CofE Primary School
I remember Mrs Watts smacking my legs for swinging on the coat pegs! I never did it again! Jackie Warren (née Deacon) Bulkington First School
I just read Phil Rich’s account of being the first boy to be ‘slippered’. I have to say I was the first girl to have had that pleasure – I have had a phobia for plimsoles ever since! He obviously left a lasting impression on me (or part of me)! Marilyn Sothcott (née Kaye) Manorside Junior Mixed and Infants School
I seem to remember only the boys got the cane whereas girls got the slipper. Terri Anderson (née Saunders) Roebuck Junior School
Mrs Proom
She was the deputy head I think, anyway I used to babysit her youngest son, the other two were a year younger than me and the same age as my sister Sharon. She still slippered me for playing truant one afternoon though. Nice lady. Denise Taylor (née Farrow) Parkeston County Primary School
Mr Starkie
He was a fearsome man, he slippered me with my own plimsole because I accidently let a ball go on the roof in P.E. Can you imagine that happening today. Maureen Norton (Entwistle) (née Griffin) Edith Weston Primary School
i remember miss powell she slippered me and a girl called carol that hqrd that she left marks and my mam went to see her and warned her not to hit one of her kids again. Rita Young (née Taylor) Bradford Memorial
Mr Upton
He drove a moped and we called him Putt Putt. He had a big influence on my life. I’m now a teacher too. He slippered (or plimsolled) me lots of times. Once it was for making a second! mistake on my Platignum handwriting competition entry – a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. Catherine Emmitt (née Harrington) The Downs County Primary School
It was Mrs Milson – God! that is some memory!! I remember getting smacked by her for stuffing conkers down my knickers!! Jenny Guy
Fairfield Infant School
… on another occassion he took of his slipper and smacked me across the bottom with it cos we were messing around in the girls toilets. Sarah-jane Dobbins (née Dicker) Thames View Junior School
Miss Allen – she was scary – spanked me in front of the class once with my friend Rosalind Leng – but she taught me to spell!!! Elizabeth Spear (née Osmend) George Dixon Junior and Infant School
Miss Edwards {my first year} spanked me on my first day !! for being late and it was her fault, she had sent me on an errand and had forgotten that she had sent me. I wonder if she ever remembered and felt bad about it? Lesley Rose (née Beckett) Brackenwood Junior School
Can you remember when Miss Parker caned the whole class, I can still feel it, but I was never caned again. Jean Fowler (née Watson) Deptford Terrace
I remember being caned by miss archer for swinging on the wash basins. Linda Goodall Blackmoor Park Junior School
Remember being caned for saying ther were 42 sixpences in a pound. I still thought there were 42 sixpences even after he caned me!
Enid Conway (née Armstrong) Falla Park Primary School
does anyone remember mr kerans,glasses with dark ginger hair,he used to keep a white pump in his cupboard and when you played up he would give you six of the best with it.one day a few lads one of them richard sealy wrote something on the board and i got the blame, boy did i get six of the best and then he had the cheek to say”look at the dust come out of your skirt” never forgave you for that richard sealy
Dawn Thompson (née Fitzharris) Shaw Hill Primary School
Miss Thompson (I received six of the best off her, for knocking the fire extinguisher off the wall) I don’t think she liked me? Pam Sharples (née Carey) The Willows RC School
Mr. Last
I remember him too – only he didn’t scare me except once when we were
playing ‘it’ and i jumped through a window (thinking it was open)! He gave
me the option to pay £6.00 for a new one or get six of the best from his
slipper! Guess which one I chose!! Diane Triggs (née Read) Scargill Junior School
Mrs Brown’s Slipper
Good to hear that Mrs. Brown’s slipper was around in the 70s. I experienced this flexible terror on a number of occasions – the solution was always to wear at least three petticoats. Elaine Cox (née Tucker) Barby CofE Primary School
Mr Harwood would grab you round the back of your neck and shove your head between his legs and then smack your bum. Caroline Hitchcock (née Pringle) St. Mary and St. John
I remember when Mr.Wilkins threw a blackboard rubber at me and then smacked me across the bum with it! Nicola Pickering (née Dolby)
Brampton Junior School