The 1950s was a period when corporal punishment in Junior Schools was pretty well universal in England. The early 1950s was also the period when I was in Junior school, which is why I feel competent to comment on the above accounts. I might even get around to giving a new and abridged account of what was undoubtedly the most painful punishment I witnessed there. A version exists here, and was well received at the time, but it is so lengthy that there’s no point in linking it, nowadays no one would ever read to the end!