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Jan 17, 2022

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I’m speechless too!

Hello gyromain,

I note that you have been a member of the Forum for some time now and it would be great if your above practice post presages a contribution on some CP matter of interest to you.

We really do need more contributors and your continued interest surely indicates that you have something relevant to say.

Another_Lurker wrote:Hello gyromain,

I note that you have been a member of the Forum for some time now and it would be great if your above practice post presages a contribution on some CP matter of interest to you.

We really do need more contributors and your continued interest surely indicates that you have something relevant to say.

Another_Lurker wrote:Hello Karl,

Good to see you back!  A most interesting contribution, thank you.  Despite only catching the tail end of the English SCP era in your schooldays you seem to have done rather better for yourself as regards personal experience and material for this Forum than I did.  Although I was at school in the late 1940s and the 1950s, when SCP was used in most schools and heavily used in some, I clocked up the magnificent total of one smacked leg and one non-memorable slippering,  both in primary school.  I have felt this to be a handicap here ever since I joined.

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Hello gyromain,

Where does Researcher Karl fit into this?

What is the significance of 929000?

Answers please, on a MRD-LX1, to this thread!

Hi yep received it when in the UK, back in the early eighties at senior school in Kent. 2 Strokes of the cane on the bottom for being caught smoking. Also slippered twice once in class and once in school gym.
Remembered intercepting letter sent to my parents advising them that i got 2 strokes of the cane “across the seat” for smoking, would have been in trouble again if they had seen that !!!!

An interesting first post here from wumpster! Many schools had stopped using SCP by the early 1980s. Those that still retained it used it in moderation and infrequently compared to in the past. By then smoking was already firmly seen as a danger to health but many adults still smoked. Wumpster suggested that he would been in trouble if his parents had seen the letter that managed to keep from them. The reaction from parents when informed that their son or daughter had received SCP varied greatly, even more so by the 1980s. Their reactions could be anything from supporting the school’s use of SCP to making a formal compliant. By that time many parents no longer used spanking at home although some still did. I have to wonder what wumpster feared if his parents had seen the letter.

Hello wumpster,

May I please join six of the best in welcoming you to a live thread.  It is always good to see first time contributions.

Possibly because, as six of the best notes, the cane was in decline in many schools by the early 1980s, you got off very lightly as a senior boy caught smoking.  In earlier years in many schools smoking was an automatic 4 or 6 strokes, even for a first offence.  Various contributors, including females, have reported having to bend over for penalties of that magnitude in both state and private schools.

You may have noted that, as six of the best also observes, interest in corporal punishment here extends beyond the scholastic variety.  Parental and judicial chastisement also have eager followings, and if you can introduce trams, trains or trolley buses so much the better!   But seriously, if failure to intercept the letter to your parents telling them about your caning would have led to further consequences similarly painful but more domestically dictated, reveal all.  It will be much appreciated by a substantial sector of our readership!

As Another_Lurker notes SCP certainly did exist in some schools right up to the national ban on it in UK state schools That goes for parental discipline too. How parents decided whether to use CP in the home was entirely up to them. Unless they over stepped the mark (marks?) they were still within their rights as parents back.
Parents reactions to learning of the son or daughter having received CP in school varied enormously too. My own mother just accepted that it was the way that schools kept order. On the few occasions that she learnt of me getting the cane or slipper in school she was not particularly concerned if the punishment was appropriate and not overdone. She never even considered punishing me further. I do remember a few lads in school being more than a little concerned about their parents discovering that their child had been caned or slippered.
Whilst I do not have any great interest in trams I have to admit to being a bit of a classic bus enthusiast. I do wonder if Another_Lurker is familiar with the term ‘skittle alley’ buses. It has to be remembered that as youngsters and for some many more years of public transport particularly buses played a big part in their lives. Travelling the upper deck of the bus could leave us reeking of tobacco smoke. Some teachers and parents did suspect youngsters of smoking themselves when just being contaminated merely by being a bus passenger. For some it was a good cover story to conceal their own smoking habits too.
It is good to see a little bit of deviation here from time to time. Deviation in the general terms I mean! We have spoke of serious cycling and of rock climbing at times. I’ve yet to see mention of amateur dramatics or country dancing mentioned here yet but I suspect now that these popular activities will soon be mentioned here!

For me, the “classic bus” was the London Transport RT. Over 4,000 of these were made, together with a further 2,400 or so of the variant produced by the Leyland Motor Company (800 of the latter were the “8ft wide” version for passengers of a slightly larger girth!). I was always particularly excited to see a pre-war RT, with rooftop number indicators at the back as well as at the front; there were still a few of those running for driver training in the late 1950s.

The RTs were eventually replaced by Routemasters, with four prototypes introduced in 1954/55 and production versions from 1956 onwards. I shall say nothing about London’s modern pseudo-Routemasters, beyond the self-evident fact that they are a bit of a joke.