This was usually given across the seat of your underpants but still stung considerably.

To receive your punishment, you would be ordered to bend over, touching your toes.

For misbehaviour in the dormitory, Matron’s remedy for naughty boys was an ordinary bedroom slipper.

This was usually given across the seat of your pyjama bottoms.

Again, Matron would order you to bend over, either over the end of your bed or touching your toes, depending on the occasion.

Any naughty charge never got any less than six of the best with the slipper.

The most I ever got was a dozen after I was caught three times in one night either out of my bed or talking after ‘lights out.