There was or is a Birch Block displayed in the old schoolroom at Harrow School as part of their guided tour.
Young Ladies blush as the tour guide (usually an old male git)indicates how breeches were lowered and bare buttocks thrashed by prefects with rolled-up sleeves.
Some were Spanish I think.
It would be interesting to see all the facial reactions however some look more knowing as the beatings are described than one would have thought!
The block was there in the 1980s and may still be?
On the topic of Eton-we attended a minor school which was Headed by a Headmaster of Eton some years before he assumed the position there.(CHosen from 1000 applicants!)
Six years actually. Under this Heads’aegis Corporal Punishment was alive and well.
Birching at Harrow1
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