Walkin past a deserted old Victorian School buildlng being converted into luxury flats my mind pondered on the history of that building.
Were serge pantaloons roughly tugged down in preparation for chastisment in that dark little room at the top?
What happened to the Punishment Books?The birches?The whipping benches?
I could ask the rough uneducated Foreign laboureres busily chucking out some old slate and timber but then they would not understand-if they could speak English they would probably respond "am I Bovvered?"and that is the problem.
Not enough enthusiasts are geting the chance to preserve CP history.
We have clubs to preserve WW2 air planes so why not CP?Problem is CPers are not even allowed into old schools when the dozers move in.
Just think on the treasures in there in a world where real tawses fetch up to £200 each!
Are we content to see all this chucked in builders skip and landfill?????

I suspect you could get a Preservation Committee together right here on this forum. No doubt that there would be a great deal of interest (lecherous and otherwise) and certainly all possible must be done to preserve any of this valuable and interesting memorabilia!

Where do we sign up? And will donation be gladly accepted? <VBG>

Bozo a few things for your hertage collection of cp and ilk


This school closed in 1930 , Local children spend school a day here, victorian dress and experience school life as it was under the supervision of a cane weilding teech,they don't get whacked but the strict discipline has to be adhered to, you can quess what part of this experience is most memorable in their write up after.



actual tawse used at this school along side the cane


Relates to part of the history of the above school


This birching stool lies lingering in a police station not on public display (Don't ask)


Personal memorabillia
Another memory of priamry about to be demolished


Liberated this from Wales. Really stings across the legs
Memories of Chelsea record ink how may Punishment books were written up in this stuff??
Lurkin in a shop on my latest travels some poor harrassed mum might think of buying one

Ketta

Ketta, the picture of that schoolroom is amazing! Excellent pictures!

Those old school desks are now highly sought after by people who go in for caning. I wish I hadn’t sold mine to a junk shop in the Walworth Road for half-a-dollar in the sixties.

Copyright Brian4JunkPosts

I aquired two folding Educational Supplies Association desks from a skip at a local school. From another skip at a closed school near where I work I recovered a pair of black plimsols and a bundle of very dusty garden canes. The school had no garden, so you may draw your own concluions. At the local Flea Market I have obtained over the years two school canes, two genuine French martinets, a thick rubber strap with a teacher's name on it in felt pen. I also have a short black cane of unkown matierial, it may be gutta percha. This I think was some kind of riding crop but there are signs that a metal ferule has been removed from the end so it could be uesd for punishing children.

I know a freegan too who has revovered under circumstantial circumstances suggesting C.P.
A small childs size butter padddle,a wooden spaghetti spoon with "spikes on the rear",several rulers,a thick folded double belt with heavy brass buckle so folded that use as a pants belt could be ruled out from the signs of deterioration,may have been used to punish a pet or a child,numerous ping pong paddles,various small flat wooden instruments from letter openers
to wooden spoons found in circumstances suggesting a nusery connection ie.mixed in with bag of toys.He has never found a cane or "proper"tawse or punishment strap though riding crops once or twice,probably used by kinky adults.