Punishment book reveals girls got it too

A book recording details of corporal punishment in the 1920s and early 1930s at a school in Lowestoft, Suffolk, revealed ‘painful moments’, according to Trevor Westgate, writing in a local newspaper. What makes this book unusual is that it recorded the caning of girls.

Offences meriting the cane included throwing paper across the room.

 

As published in the Lowestoft Journal, 14 May 1993

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