Another_Lurker 10K289 Jul 23, 2014#21 “Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson” <div style=”width:100%;background-image:url(“/realm/A_L_123/A_L_trg.gif”);”>Hello PJ, You said above: Hmm, that may be New York USA, but this is the Forum Theatre, Billingham, Tyneside, UK, from the review summary on Ms Pollard’s own website. (Scroll down to just under the third logo in the left hand column.) And in […]

Apr 09, 2014#1 “Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson” Last edited by larry1951 on 6:05 AM – Jan 12, 2018, edited 1 time in total. Show full history Quote Like Share Pin Topic Son of Scoop Apr 09, 2014#2 Scoop does it again He’s never been known to fail. There’s more news than the news In the […]

Son of Scoop Jun 09, 2014#11 “Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson” “Daily Mail” Sellotape chatterbox mouth As the poet had it: We had tripe in Swadlincote Tough enough to choke a goat. Quote Like Share Declan Jun 10, 2014#12 “Harlow Star” “Paul Wilson” Article by Ken Clarke in the Nottingham Post , June 9. I cannot […]

Sir John 2 60283 10:30 AM – Feb 14#51 Thank you again I, Researcher for posting another Punishment Book extract.  Your current efforts are the life support for the Forum. I note that five  4th form girls received 1 stroke of the cane on the hand in Dec 78 as opposed to most of the […]

Red_bum 10719 Unread post8:12 PM – Feb 17#61 Haven’t seen many 6 stoke punishments in previous punishment books but there was a few featured in the above records !!! Quote Like Share I, Researcher 279139 Unread post7:22 PM – Feb 24#62 Something a little different but still on topic. Here is a Disciplinary Report from […]

six of the best 1,163109 Mar 29, 2023#41 Bripuk: It is only in more recent years that the interest in school corporal punishment books has increased. In the more distant past many schools kept daily diaries. Some were required to do so and others by choice. These diaries recorded many things including attendance, special events and visitors […]

MAFFY1970 2915 Dec 06, 2021#31 Hi Jamestephenson, thanks for the account. It was always fun to go where you shouldn’t have been at school and get away with it. I don’t recall seeing a Punishment Book at school. I did see an empty one that my father had though. Sent from my I3113 using Tapatalk […]

Oliver_Sydney 92758 Jun 16, 2021#21 Thank you to everybody for your most interesting comments. It does appear that many schools in England used their punishment books in ways similar to mine. I believe I have read somewhere that they were a NSW Department of Education requirement. Former contributor HH (Harold Hoff) analysed a number of […]

Ancient Magister 407 Jun 14, 2021#11 Thanks for your posts, Thirdformer, and a belated welcome. Your “strong suspicion” is very well founded. It’s inconceivable that every punishment found its way into an official record, in most state schools anyway. Yes, it was the law, but in many schools honoured only in the breach. Schools which […]