Sixty years of the Scalford School punishment book

 

The punishment book preserved in the archives at the village school at Scalford, Leicestershire, was kept between 1900 and 1962 and details bad behaviour and the punishments administered to pupils as a result. Most punishments were strokes of the cane, either on the hand or across the shoulders.

Here are some entries from the book.

On 4 November 1901 Joseph Stapleton was hit twice on the hand and four times across the shoulders for persistent talking.

On 15 November 1901 Harry Stapleford got ‘1 stripe’ across the back and the across the hand for persistent talking.

On 22 October 1902 Arthur Kirk was caned for ‘tickling the girls in the row in front of him’ having already been warned not to.

For more details and pictures visit the Scalford blogsite here.

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