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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 6:43 pm
by J.R.
N.T. (Bogey) Fryer laid it on pretty hard.
R.A. Hewitt, (Deputy Housemaster), was a pussy-cat with the cane though !
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:04 pm
by huntertitus
The softest hitter was a dear, gentle man called G.H.D. Johnson (nicknamed "b*gger, though I am certain he was not one of those)
he used to pat your bum with the plimpsole and then tell you to go to bed and not tell anyone how little it hurt
An extremely decent chap, a pipe smoker and a rugger fanatic
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:06 pm
by Ash
He had to phone my parents and get their permission to cane me..
They gave it too..
Cheers for that .
Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:14 pm
by Richard Ruck
huntertitus wrote:...but DHN was the most painful
Allegedly, imho, etc
Toad was an expert - had a cupboard full of canes (yes, I did get to look while he chose one..........).
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 11:36 am
by J.R.
I'd still like to know exactly WHEN corporal punishment was abolished !
Surely, it must have been after State schools.
Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:13 pm
by huntertitus
Richard Ruck wrote:huntertitus wrote:...but DHN was the most painful
Allegedly, imho, etc
Toad was an expert - had a cupboard full of canes (yes, I did get to look while he chose one..........).
I had the luck to be chosen for that duty too!
He'd enjoy spending ages rattling them about while deciding on a heavy thick one or a thin whippy one
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:22 am
by Ash
I believe it was around 1985 or so at CH...
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:24 pm
by Great Plum
Probably when the girls arrived then...
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:13 pm
by huntertitus
It would be hard to justify hitting girls with a stick
Actually now the sexes are equal perhaps not...
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:18 pm
by Great Plum
Were girls ever 'hit' at Hertford?
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:35 pm
by Katharine
Great Plum wrote:Were girls ever 'hit' at Hertford?
Not as far as I know.
When I was teaching in Northern Ghana the boys could be caned the girls, for a similar offence wouls have to dig a hole for a mango tree - this was a four foot cube into the ground and a far worse punishment in my opinion - certainly took far far longer than a thrashing!
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:56 am
by icomefromalanddownunder
Great Plum wrote:Were girls ever 'hit' at Hertford?
Deaconess Ridsdale once whopped me with her bible to refocus my attention on whatever she was attempting to teach us.
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:40 am
by Euterpe13
Chemmy Thompson used to throw the wooden board rubber at you - with extremely good aim....
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:10 pm
by englishangel
The board rubber was for misbehaviour, if you were just drifting off she used chaik, it usually hit between the eyes.
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 12:54 am
by Scone Lover
We used to suffer the board eraser too. Some of our teachers were deadly accurate too.