Our two were equally as well behaved or otherwise! Both were often sent upstairs together!

megasman oh i see a little bit of a give away then

Only when you look very closely!  Like Six of the Best, we were usually sent upstairs together, because we were made to watch each other’s punishments.  Sometimes both punished, but more often just me.

How spanking varied family to family. I wes an only child so no brother or sister to see or hear. My wife is eldest of three sisters.

negasman do not mind me asking but where is he birthmark situated then

Just a word about trams. I don’t remember the London trams from my youth (I was only two when the last trams were withdrawn) but we did have trolleybuses running through Willesden until 3 January 1963, when Routemasters took over in the middle of the Great Freeze. The video was fascinating; one doesn’t imagine these days that there were trams in Holborn.

I have a recollection, though, that there was a proposal to build a new tram line to Euston some years ago, but it vanished into thin air.

Ian Kendrick – as shown.  Faded over the years, but still visible.

Negasman wrote: Only when you look very closely!  Like Six of the Best, we were usually sent upstairs together, because we were made to watch each other’s punishments.  Sometimes both punished, but more often just me.

My wife took our two upstairs, never had anything to do with it myself, well over 30 years ago now of course!

Although the picture below will not be of interest to all the spanking fetishists those interested in SCP who are members of this forum, I do know that we have both tram enthusiasts and ex pupils of St. John’s Primary school, East Dulwich who contribute. So I thought this photo of a tram passing by East Dulwich Railway Station might appeal to some of our contributors.

I very much regret getting behind on this rapidly moving tram thread!

Hello hcj,

In entry #812 above you said with regard to Richard‘s video of South London Trams:

 It is interesting to see that a clean form of transport was scrapped in favour of buses with diesel engines and asbestos brake shoes!

I would certainly agree with regard to the asbestos in the brake shoes of the replacement diesel buses. (I presume trams used motor braking rather than having mechanical brakes.)  However I doubt if the diesel engines of the buses were any dirtier or more polluting than the then coal fired power stations which generated the electricity for the trams.

And to get the oil for the diesel some unfortunate coal hewer didn’t have to lie on his side in 3 inches of water in a three foot seam hacking it out with a pick as one of my Grandfathers often did for much of his working life in the local pits.

Now that electricity is increasingly being generated by clean methods we can perhaps reasonably  regard electrical vehicles as ecologically superior to to those propelled by oil based fuel.  I’m not so sure that was the case at the time of the video though.

Hello Alan Turing,

You said in entry #826 above:

I have a recollection, though, that there was a proposal to build a new tram line to Euston some years ago, but it vanished into thin air.

If London ever wants trams it can have Nottingham’s with my blessing!  

Hello Richard,

An interesting picture.  On magnifying it I am intrigued as to what it shows,  The vicinity of the tram tracks seems to be littered with piles of obstructions and what appear to be workmen seem to be carrying out mechanical adjustments of some sort.  Perhaps the tram has ruthlessly destroyed another vehicle or an innocent cyclist or pedestrian as is their wont and the picture depicts the clean-up operation.