Six of the best with your school dinner

A mock headmaster caning male adults who willingly bend over to receive “six of the best” – and many more hard strokes. Who would have thought such a thing could happen. Welcome to School Dinners, a novelty theme restaurant. It was the 1980s, of course. It started in London and quickly branches opened across England – and even in Ireland. The tabloid press loved it for a while. They especially enjoyed the women who dressed as “schoolgirls” to administer canings. The novelty soon wore off and the whole enterprise went tits up after it was claimed (erroneously, m’lud) that Prince Andrew had attended and enjoyed getting his backside beaten.

Here, from the time, Alexander Davidson waxes lyrical.

One evening at School Dinners will give ex-public schoolboys in particular the most incredible nostalgic evening of their lives!

What a feast misty-eyed old boys are in for, as they scramble into the cellar restaurant whose walls are crammed with school photos, story book covers and other such tributes to the school classroom.

The menu consists of nostalgic dishes such as apple crumble, spotty dick and all those old school favourites, only this time marvellously cooked and extremely appetising.

But the real fun starts with a “Headmaster’s caning.” The hapless victim, usually a birthday boy or bridegroom-to-be on his stag night, is hauled before the “Headmaster” – School Dinners’ general manager in a mortar board and gown.

He is bent over and given a mock caning by two “schoolgirl” waitresses, while the Headmaster beats a gong to accompany every stroke. The canings last long and appears hard. The diners – ex-public school City people, and, increasingly others, are in seventh heaven! What a delicious trip down memory lane this is!

Of course, it is fun, not real perversion, and many business deals are swung in this atmosphere.

Picture credit: Unknown

Extracted from Blazers, Badges and Boaters, a Pictorial History of School Uniform, by Alexander Davidson (Scope, 1990). “Every book sold  benefits the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.”

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