Memories: Old Boys recall canings
The headmaster had two canes – a thin one and a thick one. Which one shall I use, he would ask. Here are recollections of school in Yorkshire, England in the 1850s.
As published in the
Telegraph and Argus (Bradford), 29 January 1927
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So much for formal 'rituals'! This shows that not all boys were quite so compliant as in the comics...and in my own school in the 1960s. I like the question, though. FB
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