I was caned and whacked by hand and with rulers at least 2-3 times a month during my schooling years, one of my friends was only caned once and my sister was caned once. I never asked him or my sister but I have always wondered for those school children who only received school corporal […]

Domestic bliss or domestic abuse is in the eye of the beholder. This link has a sexual connotation somewhat on the sultry and seductive side around 1939 and one I had previously posted. The other two seem to be far more innocent. The New York Times is from a hundred years ago and a photo […]

Same for Air Stewardesses etc who perhaps being stationed adjacent to a Female loo whatever must have overheard their share of chastisements in the good old days. Reminds me of an incident in a Paddington Hotel when a couple of American brats had played up all night outside their parents’ room. Next morning we awoke […]

I will always remember the headline Boss spanked me says the typist. It was in the ‘News of the World’ sometime in the late fifties or early sixties. In those days the paper used to publish details of court cases. It was the first spanking story I had ever seen, and I read it several […]

This was a typical headline, usually to be found on Sundays in the News of the World, as some errant scoutmaster or vicar was exposed as a perve. It also cropped up a few times in the People. They exposed dear old Colonel Brooks, who found a novel use for scotch as an apres-spank lotion! […]

This was in my early years so I just hoped and prayed he didn’t come patrolling down my end of the classroom. He would rage like a bull elephant , and then select his next victim seemingly pretty much at random.He could throw a mean board rubber and was a crack shot with chalk …….but […]

We  had to endure a several year stint by a 6′ 4″ Aussie , who was in the geography department. He had to to see England from the Northern Territories , and was, conservatively speaking, barking mad too. His piece de resistance was using a size 12 plimsoll, which he applied with a run up. […]

Sadly he suffered from a persecution complex and though always ready to lend items from his collection to assist other members of staff or boys he was convinced that not only did they not return them but that persons unspecified were constantly taking them without his permission. He was well known for stalking into classrooms […]

various teachers set me casting my mind back to those happy 1950s days when I were a lad, and I have realised on reflection that yet another of our great characters taught geography, though he never taught me, which is why he didn’t come to mind before. This gentleman was what is now known as […]