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Secondary
Schools
The now famous
website where old school pals can contact each other, and
members can add their teacher and school memories too,
including some references to corporal punishment. Here`s some
I found.
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references are marked with * Recent #
Grange Girls, Chesire
Margaret Audrey Doyle - 1962
Mrs Welch - I remember my maths
teacher Mrs Welch. I had many a bruised calf due to her wooden
ruler. I don't know what she'd make of alternative teaching
strategies used by teachers today. Mind you, she never had
problems with classroom discipline!
Gresham Street Girls, Manchester
Sandra Griffiths - 1960
Daffodil/rose/thistle/shamrock -
Remember the house teams, all the sports revolved around the
teams, Daffodil was best!! Do you remember the bottle green
knickers, safety pin in the hanky pocket just in case, must say
proud to this day of the famous Bottle, Miss Knowles did a great
job, wish she was on my team now, god bless her, the best years
of our lives, remember making cookery pinnie in 1st year, then
taking "Domestic Science" in 2nd. Nearly got expelled
in 3rd for truant, silly, went with the crowd, got off though,
but got the famous "strap", those were the days!
Great Wakering County, Essex
Kathleen Davey - 1959
Mrs Huntley - Needlework teacher -
my memory of this "sweet" lady is that she gave me the
cane for not being able to bring 6d to school for my needlework!
George Green's School,
Isle of Dogs
Alison Kirkpatrick -
1968
Mr Draper (Headmaster)
- Every week I used to get detention, I
never went, and so at the end of term they had yet another
detention, again I didn`t go. First day of the new term into Mr
Draper`s office for the cane, it hurt!!!!!!
George Eliot, Nuneaton
Dawn Willock - 1976
Mrs Matthews - Music Teacher, Very
strict and fond of her cane.
Goldington Road School,
Bedford
Valerie Johnson - 1970
Mr Mackey - Headmaster
- His delivery of the cane was deftly practiced!
Grange Park High
School, St Helens
Janice Moulsdale - 1981
Mrs Jones - Deputy
Head, very strict and scary woman, I got the ruler from her once
for wearing earrings.
Gregory Girls, Bradford
Beryl Hopwood - 1964
Miss Sim - Miss Sim was the Head
Teacher, I can always remember her office with the steps going up
to it, where pupils used to stand to see her (or get the cane).
Greenwell, Gateshead
Karen Bowen - 1975
Mr Colvin - In spite of
his gentle nature, he had a special punishment for anyone coming
to Maths without all the necessary equipment (slide rule,
protractor etc.). One person was assigned to chalk a cross on
your bottom, while he had the pleasure of belting you there with
the blackboard ruler. This was a surprisingly popular punishment
- the line to get belted got longer every lesson!!
Hawick High, Borders Scotland
Maureen Amos - 1976
French - Can remember getting six
of the belt off 'Lugs Tait'.
Hall Green, Wolverhampton
Beverley Turton - 1988
Mr Davis - Anyone remember the
legend of 'tickla' Mr Davis's punishment stick??
Heathfield House, Cardiff,
Wales
Donna James - 1981
*Choir
non-practice - In
1980, 27 pupils were lined up on the stage for the cane, for not
singing properly, were you in that number?
Hounsdown, Hampshire
Tracy Haybourne - 1979
Mr Bowman - Who remebers the
'Bowman Torture'? the Spock death grip on the back of the neck
for talking in class, god I can still feel it now. Also the
dreaded hairbrush he threatened to whack us with every time we
forgot to do our homework!
Horden Girls, Durham
Ann Crawford - 1961
Miss Nicholls
(Headmistress) The original stony-faced, old maid school marm who
never gave an inch. Teachers and pupils alike quaked in their
boots whenever she approached. She ruled this school with a rod
of iron (a wooden cane actually). she stood for no nonsense and
try as we might we never got one over her.
Hurworth School,
Darlington
Anne Richardson - 1979
Mr Hart (Maths) - Oh
Yes I recall a large hand pulling me over the desk and smacking
my bum with a ruler (wow that hurt) but he was a great teacher,
if you got him talking about something he liked you could get out
of working all lesson.
Hatfield House Lane
Secondary, Sheffield
Fay Wright - 1963
Can't forget Mr
Whitfield - still bear the marks from his caning.
Hurlfield, Sheffield
Julie Foster - 1975
Mrs Matthews - Games
Teacher with Mrs Rutherford. Didn't like me very much. Caned me
after a hockey match for swearing - does "they're too bloody
good for us" warrant the cane? I think not.
Haugh Shaw Secondary,
Halifax
Christine Walker - 1964
Mrs Littlefair used to
frighten the life out of me and once gave me two strokes of the
strap for throwing snowballs in the playground. There were quite
a few of us including Velma Earnshaw. Where are you now?
Harris CofE, Warwick
Julie Anderson - 1985
Whacker - Lynne I think I got my
name on that pump first day I remember, what a man!
Lynn Cairney - 1986
Woody Whacker - Woody Whacker used
to whack the famous slipper on his desk. I hated history but
loved his lessons for the pure entertainement!
Harold Hill Grammar, Havering
Vivien Whittles - 1962
Mr Armstrong - Oh yes, I remember
him! He once hit me with the slipper for staying in the school
during break and not going out into the freezing playground. I
was in the Sixth Form at the time!
Anne Maxwell - 1965
The Cane! - I had a fight in the
art room with John Bailey because he spoilt my work. From his
office window Armstrong saw me standing outside the room and
beckoned me to his office where he delivered the cane - in cold
blood! Happy days! Anyone remember Bracegirdle (Deputy Head) and
Miss Davies (DH too)?
Harrowfield, Havering
Christine Bugg - 1968
Teachers in my time - Whoever said
Miss McGill was kind couldn't possibly have been caned by her
like I was!
Herbert Kay High, Warwick
Debbie Hart - 1980
Mike Ford - Super bloke who bounced
at weekends. Gave me 100% in my chemistry exam in the third year,
now an estate agent in North Wales. Bob Cooper and Ged Harvey
could both slipper for England.
Hodgson County, Poulton-le-Fylde
Debbie Banister - 1980
Mr.Parkinson - Can anybody remember
him calling all the girls "Curly" and if you got a
question wrong he would hit you on the bum with this enormous
plastic ruler?
Heywood Community High, Heywood
Diane Lynch - 1975
Mr Lee - Taught maths, the most
frightening teacher in school, used to make you resite any of
your tables from 2 to 12, just picked on you as soon as he
entered lesson. If you were late with homework or caught messing
about you had to pick between 1 hour detention or the famous
slipper with his trusty plimsole.
Holy Cross RC, St Helens
Christine Lloyd - 1966
Miss Whittle - Anyone remember Miss
Whittle? She terrified me and I was always going up for the
dreaded ruler.
Highfields, Wolverhampton
Sandra Edwards/Burfoot - 1962
Various - I used to know Jennifer
Haynes, Susan Rutter, Joan Pickering, Peter Hipgrave, Roy Oliver
and others. I loved old Bingley School those two years we were
there and well remember the old, cold geography room we had to
reach along the outside balcony via those treacherous stairs. I
remember Mr Pattison and his chalk, the black plimsole in science
and that Welsh teacher and his yearole (ear hole). I was
frightened to death by the maths teacher Mr Kean, it was the only
lesson I sat at the front (because he picked on you if you sat at
the back) and I remember-singing Beatles songs in the outside loo
in the playground.
Haggerston, London
Pat Read - 1968
The Old School - I remember when
the old School was empty, me, Brenda Webb and Susan Hogarth used
to have a quiet ciggy in there. I put the Piano cover over my
head and acted like a ghost! It went round like wild fire that
the old School was haunted! Even made the news in the `Hackney
Gazette` he he. ONLY ME. I was so sad when it got knocked down,
all my memories of Miss O`Kelly giving me the cane - Ouch... A
pint sized bundle of School rules. I was a model pupil...wasn`t I
girls?
Handcross Park Prep, East Sussex
Ann Whitmore - 1976
The Whacks - No one knew what
suffering really was until they had to walk from the girl's
changing room to the recreation room for a weekly bout of ballet
(an anagram of hell) in the most twee of leotards with a little
frilly skirt. De rigueur if you were a wraith, but not if you
were any fatter than a beanpole. Anyway, Kim (Hi, Kim, if you are
reading this) and I cut the skirts off our leotards. Within hours
we were summoned to JD's office and the immortal and
bloodcurdling words, 'I'm afraid I'm going to have to....,' sent
shivers down our spines. Four whacks later, we were out and free
- oh and our leotards were still minus their skirts.....
Kiira Roberts - 1978
The Whacks - There were 2 occasions
when I got the dreaded "whacks" - one was for visiting
the boys annexe with 4 other girls. We went to wake up Tim Fisher
to see if he wanted to come for a midnight walk but also woke up
the Head Boy by mistake! (Dodd - can't remember his first name)
who told us to go back to our dorm. We thought we had got away
with it until the next morning when we walked into chapel and saw
all our muddy footprints going up the red carpet from the night
before - then Moggs called all our names out at the end to see
him in his office. We all got 7 of the best each - ouch! The
other time was for going down to the domestic science room and
raiding the fridge in the middle of the night. Again, we thought
we had got away with it until our names were read out in chapel
and Moggs presented us with an envelope of food crumbs which had
formed a trail from our dorm to the domestic science room! (3
whacks each that time) happy days...!
It's funny now that when you tell
people you were whacked at school they are shocked that such
things were allowed to happen!
Joanna Coulter - 1985
The Whacks - I was one of those who
got the Whacks with Kiira Roberts (and Sarah Cotton, amongst
others) on both occasions. However, I remember that I was going
to visit Mark Simpson, and that we got caught not only by Ben
Dodd, but also because we left our black gymshoes by the alter in
the chapel (with our names written all over them of course)
because the door locked behind us and we couldn't get back out
that way. But it was so exciting going on our mission, jumping
out of the rec room window and racing across the grass in the
middle of the night. Worth getting the whacks for I reckon. I
could go on for hours, I had such a great time at Handcross.
Harpurhey High for Girls,
Manchester
Karen McCarrick - 1980
Mr Box - Does anybody remember him?
I think he was our art teacher (what a dream). I also remember
miss wall P.E. Mr spooner music, Mr Moore (I think) science, Mrs
Yuedale deputy head. I remember we used to go into the greenhouse
and take plant cuttings, great teacher, strict, but very fair.
Mrs Barry, how could I forget her and her legs!!! I remember
being summoned to her office with a few other girls for playing
truant and one of the girls pointing out her legs, we were all in
fits of laughter, needless to say we all ended up getting the
strap.
Holy Trinity Convent Grammar,
London
Sally Charlton - 1958
Miss Parker & Miss Dixon - Who
remembers the fearsome Miss Dixon, who ran the junior school? She
was a dragon to everyone except those who were in her class that
year. The following year, she went back to being a dragon! She
used a small cane (across the palm of the hand) to those guilty
of a misdemeanour. Those were the days! She lived in the Lodge by
the school gates with Miss Parker, who was lovely.
Howard School, Hampshire
Denise Davis - 1961
Old Days - I remember Mrs Worsley
the history teacher, she gave me the cane once for fighting with
Marilyn Potter.
Hedley Walter High, Essex
Valerie Wood - 1959
Headteacher - The head teacher had
a dog called Bishop which followed her around all the time. Her
name was Miss Lloyd and her assistant was Miss Elmers. The school
was known as Brentwood Secondary School and renamed after Mr
Hedley Walter. They didn't hesistate using the cane on pupils at
that time.
Headstone Manor, Harrow,
London
Linda Seldon - 1956
*Mr
Manson - the Headmaster - used to go round the school with a cane
and used to threaten everyone with it.
Inverkeithing High, Fife Scotland
Caroline Patrick - 1974
Mr Deas (English) - Take it from me
he was the best at giving the belt. I got seven in one go and my
hands ached for ages. Earned a fag in the loo for that.
Jack Hunt, Peterborough
Linda Law - 1970
We still had the cane but we didn't
have the ruler behind the knees like we did at Eastholme Girls.
John Street County, Chesire
Hazel Haynes - 1962
Mrs Richards - I'm on a roll now,
how about 'Fanny Richards' when she gave us the cane and missed
because she had a 'wonky' arm, then every time she had another go
it got harder! Oh boy did that hurt, these kids today don't know
how easy they have it do they?
Elaine Herridge - 1967
The Bus Run - Do you remember the
school playground, which was divided into girls and boys? Were
you one of the unfortunates to have to stand on the drain cover
in the middle of each playground? Or being watched by the bus run
whilst you waited for the cane outside the headmaster`s office?
Kingsridge Senior, Glasgow
Irene McClymont - 1969
Mrs Macarthur (Flossie) - Great
Maths teacher - great shot with a duster when her back was turned
to the class. She was always telling us to 'watch the board and
I'll run through it again' - hilarious. A big hitter too - that
belt of hers did sting! I was on the receiving end one day - the
big windows were open and all those lovely banda-ed(?) formula
sheets (ooh remember the smell) that we had for homework blew off
of my desk. Should I pick them up? - I was terrified. I had
always been a bit of a goody two shoes(?) never in trouble(!). So
I stretched down to pick them and she spotted me! AAAgggh! Get
out here girl!! Hands up! I'll belt you three!!! Now we all know
that you just HAD to move your hands apart - cos it hurt
otherwise! Well I moved my hands apart and then again and again -
so she gave me six and then sent me to Mr Blackwood (who could
hit harder than Flossie) for three more! I couldn't play netball
that night!! My Mum gave me a whack too when I got home - because
I got the belt I MUST have deserved it - she still thinks I only
got three!! Anyone else remember that incident? Those were the
days!!
Purohit Royland - 1973
I also have terrifying memories of
Miss Campbell. She belted me more times than I care to remember!
King David High, Liverpool
Pamela Roberts - 1959
Mr Fisher - He was the Headmaster
during my time and I was terrified of him! I can see him now,
coming up the corridor - wearing his cap and gown - and the cane
under his arm (I was usually sent out of French for giggling!) so
always hoped I was invisible standing outside the classroom!!
Kilmorie, Lewisham London
Joan Peopall - 1950
Mr Franklin and Miss johns - I was
at the school in the late 40's early 50's and they were there
then. Yes Miss Johns was a big lady but very kind. Mr Franklin
and the infamous plimsoll was just the same then. Miss Johns
tried to teach us French to no avail.
Patricia Adams - 1963
Miss Johns - Does anyone remember
Miss Johns? She was a formidable Teacher, and gave me the cane
for not wearing my hated beret outside the school gates?
Patricia Adams - 1963
Mr Franklin - I remember Mr
Franklin, and Mr Rose, who used the plimsoll very often, and was
a dab hand at throwing the chalk. Mr Hill was the Head.
Katherine`s CofE, Haringey, N.London
Debbie Wilson - 1970
Miss Smith - I remember being caned by Miss Smith
(Headmistress) for being in the wrong place at the wrong time,
she would hit first and question later, actually, I don`t think
we got to explain ourselves. I remember being sent home several
times for not having the right shoes or socks on, how things have
changed.
Kings Park, Glasgow
Pauline DiMeo - 1976
Mrs Davidson/Home Economics - Was
caught pinching scrap pieces of material from the sewing room
store cupboard for my pal Marion Ewing`s costume for the school
production of Oliver...got belted for that..hope you appreciated
it mars! (She`s still my best mate).
Kennet School, Berkshire
Angela Hunter - 1974
Mrs Leahy - I remember her as our
Headmistress, she gave me the slipper for fighting with Carrie
Risley.
Kirkton High, Dundee Scotland
Christine Allan - 1975
Miss Adams - I won't forget her in
a hurry either. Remember sticking up for Margaret Mitchell in our
cooking class and we both got sent to Miss Adams for the belt -
was the first and only time I'd had the belt and I was such a
wimp and screamed. Never stuck up for anyone again.
Knockbreda High, N. Ireland
Valerie Smith - 1979
Mr Ferguson - "Fergie"
was one of a kind. I have vivid memories of him making the whole
class sing "Nellie Dean" until we were word perfect. I
still remember the words of that song to this day! Also remember
him caning me for coughing in class - the one and only time I was
ever caned.
King James 1st Grammar,
Durham
Gail Wiles - 1972
Girls Showers - Does
anyone remember when Miss Precious caught some smoking in the
showers? She never did find out who it was. As most of the year
lined up outside her office she couldn't cane them all. The whole
corrider was full of pupils, everyone joined in.
Knaresborough Secondary
Modern, Yorkshire
Pauline Gratton - 1969
Raggy Tash Lancefield -
"This is going to hurt me far more than it will hurt
you." I still agree to differ !!
Mr Black (Metal work) -
Nice guy, But did that plimsoll make you smart. Firm but fair!
Laindon High Road
Comprehensive
Gillian Caulfield -
1960
Scilly Isles - A trip
to the Scilly Isles! Some holiday. Terrible, Rebellion!! Demanded
our tickets home. About six of us got the cane when we got back.
Sandra Murphy - 1982
Corporal Punishment - I
remember those days, when I used to stand outside the Head`s
office - listening to the dreaded thwack of the cane and the
inevitable 'yelp' from the poor victim inside. I stood there
thinking to myself "Must not make any noise 'cause I'm
hard', "Come in Murphy - Hand out" Thwack. At that
point my teeth would sink into my bottom lip. But hey no noise.
With a smile on my face I would leave his office. I would then
head straight for the girls loo and scream "Ouch!!" Can
anyone remember sharing those wonderful days with me?
Linwood High, Linwood Scotland
Carol Hyndman - 1978
Mrs Wishart - English, Catweazel -
Art - I have horrendous memories of Mrs Wishart. Remember her
giving me 3 of the belt for doodling on my jotter instead of
working! She told me not to comb my hair in class as I would have
a hard job making myself look beautiful! Told her she would have
a harder job - got the belt again!
Lawside RC Academy, Dundee
Scotland
Marilyn McLean - 1967
Various memories -
Getting belted for leaving my school bag on the floor of the
cloakroom on first day back from being ill ....many thanks to you
Tom Devine for that ....what goes around comes around sweetie
...generally getting belted quite a lot really ...... which has
all gone to make me the well balanced person I am today.
Logie Secondary, Dundee Scotland
Carol Uhlig - 1967
Ma Duff - Horrible
old spinster who wore her hair in a bun and made us girls kneel
on the ground to make sure that our skirts reached the floor and
dished out "the belt" with great vigour.
Granny Boucher - I
remember Granny Boucher the grey haired (in compulsory bun style)
music teacher. Moved me to the front of the class as when I sat
at the back I deliberately sung Air Falalalo out of key. She
might have been old but she had a mean belt action too.
Lochend, Glasgow
Jacqueline Wotton - 1968
I remember - Forever getting lines
from prefect at gate for being late, eventually leading to the
belt from the head - forget his name. Miss Day(maths) was a grand
belter, too. Mrs Duffy-eek!-smacked legs with the stick for the
wrong country dancing steps.
Linda Richardson - 1975
Sparra - Her name was Miss McVie
and she was as old as the hills. I had her for English but only
remember how she gave the belt, nothing about whether she was an
effective teacher or not. Felt a bit sorry for her sometimes as
we were not an easy crew to teach! Anyway I must have done
something right as she asked me and some pals to be librarians in
4th year - big mistake!
Caroline Knox - 1975
Remember Sparra - I remember her,
she gave my whole class the belt for putting chewing gum in the
keyhole while we were waiting on her.
Amanda Philp - 1986
Mrs Gordon - Does any other females
remember this sadistic PE teacher, instead of giving the belt she
would use a cricket bat, I think the flat end was called big
bertha and the handle was called wee bessie!.
Love Street, Chesire
Alana Brown - 1963
Headteacher - I remember getting an
order mark for bad behaviour (3 detentions). I was in St. Bedes
and must have been the naughtiest girl in the school. Miss Holmes
was the headteacher and she hit me with a ballet slipper. Scary
lady!
Lambourne CofE, Berkshire
Lynda Kalinowska - 1960
Miss Wade - Miss wade was a young
teacher who came to the school new. I don't think she stayed too
long. She was very strict. If you were misbehaving she would
introduce you to "Maryanne". Maryanne was a hard
plastic ruler and Miss Wade would use the side of it across your
knuckles. Not many people met Maryanne more than once!
Lanfranc High, London
Glennis Spencer - 1958
Miss Williams - Yes, I got plenty
of public smackings for not "take that smile off your
face" from Miss Williams. Also Miss Clemow who did have a
steel plate in her head and took us for basket work. Miss Wynn
Williams sho was a dear and I think she ended up being head
mistress for West Thornton School. Also Mrs Wilkinson who took us
for English Poetry and Puppet show after school, best teacher I
ever had.
Sandra Manley - 1960
Miss Williams - Headmistress - I
can remember Miss Williams, who could forget her and the way she
used to slap three times in three different places up your arm,
that was a good day of course, if it was a bad day then it was up
both arms. I used to have nightmares about having to stand under
the clock outside her room. Oh happy memories.
Dorothy Hutt - 1962
Gardens & Punishment - I also
tended the garden just inside the gate to the right. I only ever
managed to grow marigolds and lobellia. As for punishment I can
remember cringing in the hall when Miss Williams administered her
'public slappings' Who went the darkest shade of crimson, Miss
Williams or the pupil? It's a wonder the stage didn't give way!
Sandra Adcock - 1964
Public Slappings - I had two public
slappings in my time at the girls school. The first was for
sucking an ice lolly within a mile of the school gate. Seems
unbeleivable now but I broke a school rule which was no sucking
ice lollies whilst in school uniform within five miles of the
school gate. Oh boy, was it hot that day too. The second was
because I went for an interview at one thirty which finished at
two thirty, so I decided it wasn`t worth going back to school,
but the next day Miss Williams said I was a disgrace to the
school for not returning after the interview, and so I got three
on each arm and three on each leg. Oh happy days aye.
Linden Hall Girls, Kent
Crassida Judd (pictured) - 1965
Life at
LHS with RJS - Looking back, I realise she ruled with total
autonomy and would brook no censure or criticism from any
quarter. Any misdemeadour (either real or imagined) was punished,
very often with an over-the-top punishment. I was once summoned
from my bed for talking after lights out and told to "make a
joyful noise unto the Lord" in the common room (i.e. learn
that psalm in full and recite it to her, word perfect, before
being allowed back to bed - a place I didn't reach till gone
midnight). Another time, again for talking after lights out, I
was made to stand in front of a circle of prefects, where I had
to bend over, my pyjama trousers were unceremoniously pulled down
and I received numerous slaps from her with a slipper - I was
mortified, I never got over that one until all the prefects who
had witnessed my humiliation had left the school!!
La Sagesse Convent, Romsey,
Hampshire
Diana Stinson - 1970
I can remember the smell of the
corridors - polish, the chapel-incence and the tunnel-damp. I
remember being tapped over the knuckles for being useless on the
piano with a long thin stick.
Lymington, London
Sylvia Brooks - 1958
Ms Clarke, Deputy Head Mistress -
Fond memories of having many encounters with the old hag. Usually
in respect to her chasing me around the school, (cos I was a
naughty girl) trying to keep up with me and showing her bloomers
in the process to the rest of the pupils. And she was way too
handy with the cane!
Langley Secondary Modern, Langley
Christine Oatway - 1969
Maths - Does anybody remember Mr
Mouldy or Modi? He was a little indian maths teacher. I remember
twanging his braces one day and ended up getting the cane!!!
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