We used to play Schools. I was always the teacher and would give the class very difficult questions like multiply 487012 by 568 and who wrote Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony? When they got the answers wrong, I gave them a choice of punishment. Most kiddies opted for six from my hand across their knickers. I […]

What tents are to you, tree houses are to me. I got my first bottom spanking from the oldest boy in our group on a hot August Afternoon. It hurt a lot, but I enjoyed it, and has remained one of the hottest of my memories for almost 30 years       It wasn’t […]

  Whenever I think of childhood spanking games, I am reminded of tents. In a tent we had our own domain, even though it was in somebody’s back garden, where we made up our own rules. One Sunday afternoon in July we had in quiz in a tent and Judy gave four wrong answers, so […]

I was too good a girl to get spanked at school, where they were rare. However being the youngest of the group of kids in our road I was at the recieving end of many “play” spankings. These have left a lasting impression on me. I would guess that many others had similar experiences.

  Mr Bruce Clyde Lumsden, Headmaster: “The school, like many others in both State and Independent systems at the time, was conducted under rigid discipline based upon corporal punishment. Every teacher carried a retributory weapon of some sort, usually a strap. The boys themselves were a match for this treatment. They expected it, and responded […]

He carried three or four leather straps in his hand. Having stood us back to back, he strapped us together for half an hour. When releasing us, he remarked ‘You should get along better in future.’” Mr Francis Henry Joseph Archer, Headmaster: “At the beginning of Archer’s career there were only two teachings aid, blackboard-and-chalk […]

Caulfield Grammar School. Again, not a vast amount of material (I’m hoping the next lot of books I get will be more illuminating), but for the sake of completeness, here are the quotes. Again, I noticed many oblique references that could have been very interesting if they’d had a bit of detail. The books is […]