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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 #
Morden Farm, Merton
Gillian Barker - 1956
Miss Ames - Does anyone remember
this woman, I can still feel the crash of the ruler on my hand.
Lyn Wingate - 1968
Mr Cock - Mr Cock was our History
teacher. Great teacher but used to run down the corridor and into
the classsroom to give the slipper to some unfortunate.
Markfield, Haringey, N.London
Maureen Newson - 1963
Miss Burchill - Miss Birchill gave
me the cane because she caught me smoking in the girls
toilets!!!! I have now given up!! I also remember Mr.
Frederickson, he was really scary with his big shiny polished
brown squeeky shoes!!!
Christine Sylvester - 1964
Miss Burchill - The only time that I received corporal
punishment was from Miss Burchill...for reading comics in
assembly...a good thwack across the hand with the biggest ruler
that I had ever seen. A couple of years later, when I was Head
Girl, she made a passing comment on the 'event' but never
mentioned it again....Oh happy days!!!
Mill Chase Community School,
Hampshire
Marilyn Whillians - 1970
Ms Henwood - The most awesome scary
teacher ever to grace the halls of Mill Chase. Within a month or
two of starting this wonderful establishment I received my first
(of many) order marks. Whereupon I was summoned to Miss Henwood's
room, she was the head of Winchester at the time, I was soundly
thrashed with a piece of 4 By 2. I would like to say I learned a
lesson but unfortunately, I most certainly did not. The only
thing I can add to this is that once I had been punished, I did
eventually become good friends with her and also admired her very
much as a teacher.
Middlewich High, Chesire
Jennifer Ashley - 1959
Miss Walton - I remember Miss
Walton, I did not realize she stayed around for such a long time.
I was talking in class and was sent to the headmistress by her
and got the cane. I still liked her though. She used to live at
Cranage and ride her bike to Byley where I lived, and caught the
school bus with us kids. Those were the days.
Mold Alun, Wales
Patricia Harrison - 1960
Jack and Molly Evans - Do you
remember Jack 'Pimp' the Geography Teacher and his wife Molly
'Murder' the Craft Teacher - so named because of those lethal
canes which weren't always used merely for basket-work.
March End, Wolverhampton
Judith Nuttall - 1967
Certain English Teacher - Remember
her cane?
Marlborough Girls, London
Doris Jean Pearce
Does anyone remember Mr Osalberry?
Went up three stairs and down one. Everybody used to walk behind
him doing the same. Mr Major, liked to give the slipper to the
girls. Used to say bend over the desk and then slippered us, well
some of us, well usually me.
Marlborough Girls'
School, Isleworth
Jean Garrick - 1960
Miss Coleman - Taught in the
wooden huts, I always thought she had a glass eye, but never knew
for sure. Miss Tweed gave me the cane for eating an apple under
my desk during maths with Mrs.Holroyd(?). I left to move to
Aldershot. Anyone remember Leslie Beggs?
Pauline Taylor - 1963
Memories - Miss Pritchard used to
frighten me. Did you all know they have now pulled down our old
school and built houses? Now that is sad. Can't show our kids
where we went to school. My memories of Marlborough were getting
the cane for reading Lady Chatterley's Lover, always being late
for class and generally getting into trouble.
Linda Tolmie - 1966
Miss Tweed - I had a lot of respect
for Miss Tweed but at the same time she seemed larger than life.
I never had to go and have the cane (phew) but I remember a few
girls having to go. I think we expected them not to come back the
same as when they went!.
Meadway, Reading
Shirley Hall - 1974
Mr Downs, Science Teacher - At
least 7ft tall, Joe 90 specs and size 12 feet of which he kept a
size 12 plimsole in his desk drawer for disciplinary measures. I
once tossed it out of the upstairs window in the science dept
whilst he was out of the room - as I was one of its recipients -
someone grassed on me and he made me fetch it and then whacked my
backside with it six times....ouch - the memory.
Moorlands Prep, Bedfordshire
Michaela Manning - 1980
Mixture - Getting the cane for
making too much noise, at lunchtime!!!, playing 'hurley burley',
wearing summer and winter hats, being a St David, the way Dr
whitlock moved his left arm when rubbing the board with his right
and having to write 'My Life Story' with photos.
Moorland, Lancashire
Rosanne Ashworth - 1968
Mr Mather - Anyone remember being
caught by Mr Mather for walking up the Front stairs - and then
being caned for it?? Ouch!!
Jayne Ward - 1980
The Worklist - Remember the dreaded
"Worklist" and lining up outside Mr "Rathead"
Wilkie's office on a Monday lunch time - Quaking in your boots
and waiting to see if you either were taken off the list or were
to get THE PUMP!!!!
Helen Procter - 1981
Always in trouble - I too remember
the "Worklist" I was on it most of my life at Moorlands
I think! I hated "Rat head" he gave me the cane!
Mill Hill, London
Emma Wicks - 1985
Mrs Solders - Who remembers this
pint sized terror with her feather duster of fear?? Underneath it
all she was an old softy with a heart of gold but blimey she
didn`t half make some bums red!!
Montsaye, Northamptonshire
Myra Bateman - 1964
Mr Collinson - Who remembers the
immortal words "It is more convenient for all concerned if
I..... than if I do not", you had a choice 1 (whack with his
sellotaped cane) or 40 (lines with the wording above) The best
days of our lives!!!
Lynne Baxter - 1979
Joe Collinson - It was Joe
Collinson not collingwood. He used to carry a rather large stick
around with him.
Mandeville, Enfield
Paula Chambers - 1976
Mr Gooch - He was the art teacher,
if you misbehaved in his class you got six rulers on the palms of
your hands.
The Northicote, Wolverhampton
Irene Ward - 1952
Mr Watkins - The deputy head who
kept a cane in his cupboad called Bertha. Was not averse to using
a slipper on the backsides of unruly pupils but was a good
geography teacher. He moved to Canvey Island.
Northfields Upper
School, Dunstable
Julie Hammond - 1952
Mrs Schofield - The
deputy head who wielded the cane.
Susan Clayden - 1973
Mrs Baines - I remember
Mrs Baines, nickname (Basher). She was very handy with the cane.
Debra Freeman - 1978
Mrs (Basher) Baines -
What can I say? I spent more time outside her office than I care
to remember! Only caned me once though.
Julie Fountain - 1982
Mrs (Basher) Baines -
She gave me the cane for going into the boys toilets - actually I
was pushed in by Mark Johns - but she didn’t like me so I
got the cane anyway.
Noadswood, Hampshire
Lesley Hayhow - 1965
Mr Gledhill - Very scary maths
teacher. Used to hit you with a ruler or flick you with his half
a finger if you weren't listening.
Northolt High, Middlesex
Sue Allen - 1977
Mrs Bearne - A very good PE teacher
but would not mind using the slipper on you if you forgot your
kit or she caught you playing on the swings in the park, instead
of running round it. But then she did always come down in her
little sports car and never ran with us.
Notre Dame, London
Margaret Merriman - 1959
Miss Plummer - Our beloved
P.E.Teacher, we played truant one afternoon from our lesson and
went home early, next day we had to sit outside Sister Joseph`s
office and she gave us the cane across our buttocks, never again.
North Romford Comprehensive,
Romford Essex
Newmarket Upper, Suffolk
Tina Potter - 1970
Mr Ford - The tyrannical country
dance teacher - handy with the old plimsole (as I found out to my
cost - several times!)
Northwich County Grammar for Girls,
Cheshire
Jacky Crosby - 1971
Mrs Sprayer - Yes, I remember Miss
Hulley. Janet Dines scared the life out of me. I got the cane
once for truanting. Still have nightmares about her. Anyone
remember the lovely art teacher, Mrs Sprayer. One of the few
humans on the staff, in my experience.
(SF&R Note) Northwich County
Grammar for Girls was attended in the 1970`s by the British
former international hurdler and Olympic silver medalist Shirley
Strong, and comedian/actress Jennifer Saunders.
New Moston County, Manchester
Lynda Birks - 1962
Class of 62 - Does anyone remember
Carol Seddon or the letch of the year who was Bill Ramsley? I
can`t say that my memories of New Moston Secondary were happy
ones - the teachers were all bullies especially the RE teacher
Miss Young, and I spent most of my time in the corridor or in the
Head`s office getting the strap!
Orchard, Berkshire
Sandra Mackenzie - 1960
Mr Plowright - Fab music teacher,
scrupulously fair if you were in trouble. You always had the
choice of the black plimsol (and not to wear) or the white one.
Orange Hill, London
Leslie Kauffer - 1958
Teachers - I remember Mr. White,
(English teacher) with great fondness, he gave me my love of
Literature & had a lovely dry sense of humour. I also vividly
remember a Mr. Althans (maths & geog.) who ruled by sheer
terror - we used to get caned if our marks weren't up to scratch.
Then there was "The Duke" of course (headmaster) who
also had a great love of using "the Stick" Needless to
say I hated my time there & was never so pleased as when I
left!
Oakwood, Southgate
Pamela Lyon - 1961
Miss Fugle and Miss Goodship - I
remember Miss Goodship very well. She was a sweet, very patient
needlework teacher (she had to be with the state of my
needlework). I was another victim of Miss Fugle too. She caught
me raiding the supply cupboard and eating the sultanas. Needless
to say, I got the slipper. I was not the little miss goody two
shoes she thought I was.
Petersfield, Hampshire
Laurine Humphrey - 1969
Mr Peed (Science) - Does anyone
remember getting hit with the blackboard rubber he used to throw?
Or if you were really bad he'd hit you with his plimpsoll!
Privett Secondary Modern, Hampshire
Margaret Martin - 1959
Switzerland Trip - At age 14 1/2
our class went to Swizerland. Mrs. Bowmaker took us, and her
sons, also another teacher. I remember being spanked with my
slipper because Jane Knight and I were chatting with a boy out of
the Hotel bedroom window. Jane & I were separated as
punishment. I still have the diary we had to make with the
pictures, and the clogs I brought.
Kim Cresdee - 1972
Arthur Coote - Woodwork teacher of
the very old school!
He caned me in my first year for flicking lumps of wood with a
steel rule.
Helen Saville - 1973
What happened to Mr Coote and his
cane?
Park Mains High, Erskine
Scotland
Linda Ahmed - 1980
School Tie Strike -
Yes, I remember the school tie strike. What a laugh! Loads of us
being very rebellious, dancing about outside with our ties round
our heads. We were all told to get back to our classes and we
would not be punished. I had a science class with that lovely
tempered chap, Mr Alexander? Needless to say myself and fellow
rebels of that class promptly got the belt!!
Penilee, Glasgow
Margaret Cameron - 1962
Miss McDonald - She used to belt me
and send me to the toilets to wash the muck off my eyelashes, she
would not believe I was not wearing make up. Her class (for
English) was behind the stage. She had a habit of leaving her
cigarettes in the loo (situated in the same area) which I pinched
and hid in my knickers, shared them with my friends. I used to
pinch her belts too - got fed up being walloped by them. Hid them
behind the cupboard in Miss Crumbs music room at least 6 of them.
Isobel Stewart - 1968
Mr Nelson - Indeed great with the
belt, duster, chalk and anything else he could use as an
unsuspected flying missile. Trouble was you could neither rely on
his aim or the fact he had hand picked the right person to be on
the receiving end of the three fingered belt! and then you got
belted at home for getting the belt!!!!
Karen Brown - 1978
Mrs Kirsop - The only teacher I
ever got the belt from - and it was sore!
Alison Laurie - 1980
Mrs MacPhail (Granny) - Granny
MacPhail lives in Ralston. I often see her when I drop my
daughter at school. She looks exactly the same as she did over 20
years ago. She was the only teacher ever to give me the belt, and
it wasn`t even me who was talking, it was Paul Martin!
Palatine, Blackpool
Linda Conway - 1969
Mr Eardley - A fantastic geography
teacher....do you remember the famous slipper. I had a real crush
on Mr Dave Eardley. I dreamed of running away to the Himalaya's
with Mr Eardley, but all he ever taught us was about reclaiming
the Fjord's in Norway. Great days at Palatine.
Diona Walsh - 1975
Mr Shipley Headmaster - Does anyone
remember how he used to go mountain climbing on his chair before
he gave anyone the cane? What a man.
Park High, Lancashire
Ann Merry - 1987
Mr Kitchen - Teacher of English and
my form teacher for 2 years (4L and 5L). Wore shiny shoes, open
neck shirts, flares and medallians...in the 80s!! Also took to
wearing plasters on his neck, dont know why!! I remember him
hitting me on the backside with a piece of wood (part of a desk).
It had a chalked cross on it which ended up on my arse. Great
teacher, good fun, but wouldn't take any hassle.
Peckham Manor, Peckham,
London
Irene Seago - 1965
I don't remember a Deputy Head
called the "Major", but I thought he was Mr Bilson, who
certainly looked like a major if my recollection is right. He was
certainly the first one to give me the cane.
Sharon Gillespie - 1960
Mr Burrell was my form teacher
from 1958-60. Remember him having a body like an upsidedown
triangle, with a small head!!!! And he lived sports and was fond
of winding you with the medicine ball! And took great joy in
smacking your bum with your own plimsoll!
Penzer Street, Dudley
West Mids
Pat Hingley - 1968
Mrs Batham - She was
the needlework teacher. I only ever had the cane once and she was
the one to give it.
Plymstock, Plymouth
Tracy Bishop - 1980
Mrs Cheney
Myself, Mandy Freeman, Theresa Downey & Julie Ball were all
in the toilet block smoking when someone yelled "Cheney`s
Coming", so all four of us went in one toilet together. She
waited for us to come out when we thought the coast was clear.
No, there she was. Julie was so skinny she hung herself to the
back of the toilet door and Cheney didn`t catch her. Mandy,
Theresa, Myself on the other hand ended up with the cane.
Rachael Mansfield - 1981
Miss Tucker - Very large lady who
caned me and I believe Mel Leyshon, Alison Turner and possibly
Fiona Watson for mitching or was it smoking in the boys toilets!!
Christine Hill - 1983
Mrs Tucker - I can remember myself
and Susan Gardener being thrown out of our Geography class and
being told to polish the sixth form floor, we did this with the
help of a litre bottle of polish, then sat on the top of the
stairs having a little rest when Mrs Tucker marched in, slipped
and went flying across the newly polished floor breaking one of
her legs, oops. We ran out of the school as we were terrified of
getting the cane.
(SF&R NOTE) Plymstock School in
Plymouth was attended in the 1970`s by the British former
international swimmer Sharron Davies.
Princess Royal,
Yorkshire
Julie Padgett - 1967
Miss Harris -
Headmistress, tweeds and brogues. If you were caught smoking you
were hit with the ruler and had your ciggies confiscated, which
she smoked later.
Queens, Newport Wales
Angela Jackman - 1974
Mr Luff - Mr Luff thinks he`s tuff,
goes to church on Sunday. Prays to god to give him strength to
cane us kids on Monday! or that immortal word "HALT"
with his hand in the air, and standing like a statue, or having
to walk all round the upper hall at Stow Hill or stand outside
his office.
Rodney, Nottinghamshire
Lynsey Brown - 1993
The Cane - Yes I do remember the
cane! Rachel Cooper and I got it, the rest of Kenny dorm got the
slipper (except Adele Kirkman, who insisted that she was asleep!)
I particularly remember how Miss Thomas used to go and select
which cane to use, and then before each strike used to jump (what
seemed like) 3ft in the air! and if you made a sound or moved she
used to give you another one. Luckily I only got three, poor
Rachel got six.
Robert Haining, Surrey
Kathy Lambert - 1968
Mrs Cathy - Great headmistess now I
look back. Used to wield the cane on me a bit - guess I deserved
it now I think about it, but never held a grudge and actually
liked me so she told me.
Reddish Vale Technologhy College,
Reddish
Valerie Eanor - 1962
"Taffy" Griffiths -
Anyone remember Mr Griffiths saying one winter`s playtime
"Anyone caught throwing snowballs will go immediately to the
hall for caning" 99% of the pupils ended up in the hall that
playtime!!
Redwell, South Shields
1971 - Jean Hall
Art - Does anyone remember Polly
Stewert? She was the only teacher to give me the stick, for
putting paint on another pupils hair.
Patricia Turnbull - 1984
MR R.C. BROWN (BIOLOGY TEACHER) -
CAN ANYONE REMEMBER MR BROWN, IF YOU ACTED YOURSELF IN CLASS, HE
USED TO ASK YOU WHAT SIZE SHOE YOU TOOK, AND THEN HE WOULD SEND
YOU TO THE CUPBOARD FOR A PLIMPSOLE OF THE SAME SIZE AND WHACK
YOU ON THE BACKSIDE WITH IT.
Rosary RC, London
Elizabeth Shiel - 1974
Sister Bridget - Was our
Headmistress. Short and scary but fair at the end of the day.
Saying that I got the cane when I was 9 for going in the convent
grounds!
Roby, Huyton
Lesley Hill - 1977
Mr Hill - An absolutely brilliant
teacher! Do you remember his canes! He used to have different
sizes for different offences.
Redbrook Middle, Lancashire
Valerie Greenhalgh - 1966
Mr Charnley - I got the
"slipper" (plimsole actually) off Mr Charnley for
supposedly putting graffiti on his beloved bench. IT WASN'T ME.
Royal Free Middle, Windsor
Elisabeth Bye - 1973
Royal Free Junior School - I really
enjoyed my time here - Mr. Evans the headmaster ('Evans the
Cane') was a lovely old-fashioned man and his wife, who was a
lovely lady, taught us needlework.
Belinda Bye - 1973
Mrs Linklater - Old School style,
with a mission to cram a wealth of experiences into our tiny
minds. Ace topical fish tank in class. Taught 1A and then 2A. Not
adverse to corporal punishment.
Carol Gillies - 1976
Mr Evans - I joined in Mr Evans'
last year. He was replaced by Miss Merwood. My Mum always said
the school went downhill after that! I remember being in Mrs
Wooller's class. Once a week Mr Evans would come and read to us.
We were all so terrified of his canes that we sat in perfect
silence! Once he left I often used to chat with him (and his
wife) at the bus stop. I realised then that he was a normal human
being and a lovely one at that!
Renfrew High, Renfrew Scotland
Valerie Stimpson - 1958
Mr MacLeod (Maths)
- Looked a bit like Glen Miller but he could swing the belt -
made you stand in the corner so you couldn't draw your hands
back.
Christine Whiteside - 1972
Mr MacDonald (Lurch)
- I also remember 'Lurch' and his belt, closely rivalled by Mr
McArthur (history) who held on to the banister outside his
classroom (next to the library) to get a better 'swing'.
Gillian Lindsay - 1977
Mr McArthur - I
well remember biffo. he was the only teacher that I ever got the
belt from!!!
Doreen Currie - 1983
Mrs Armstrong (Geography)
- I Liked Mrs Armstrong untill I got on the wrong side of her, I
ended up getting the belt. She lived up to her name in the end.
Rockwell High, Dundee Scotland
Angela McGurk (pictured) - 1971
Wee Mary - I`m sure she was a
french teacher. she was small but lethal with the belt.
Eleanor Thomson - 1974
Miss Little, who I had the honour
of being the first person she had to belt - think it hurt her
more than me as she was just out of teaching school.
Ryburn Valley High,
Calderdale
Hazel Sutcliffe - 1959
Does anybody remember
Mrs. Mortimer? I was frightened to death of her, and that ruler
across the knuckles really hurt!!
Rivington High School,
St Helens
Karen Wood - 1981
Mrs Howard
(headmistress) - I eventually got my cigs back of her after a
caning - lol.
Rawmarsh School - A
Sports College, Rawmarsh
Lorraine Whitworth -
1967
I remember Wilf -
I’ve had a few cracks off him. There used to be four of us.
Me, Joan Lamble, Elaine Abbs, and Julie Dudhill. We spent more
time in the huts at the bottom of the school ground waiting for
Wilf so we could have our daily dose of the stick!!
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