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For once I agree with Alf, the cane really hurt. I had it 5 times in all, 6 strokes each time, twice for smoking, once for fiddling the dinner ticket system, once for breaking a window, and, the only one I still resent, punished for punching ( several times) a kid that called my foster sister a...

I remember having ice on the inside of the windows,and having overcoats on the beds as blankets in winter. Getting up in the morning, and leggings it downstairs to get dressed in front of the living room fire.Blimey, we had some cold winters then. And still going to school in shorts all year...

Me and a mate were caught smoking by a teacher at Steyning Grammar, in about 1972-3. It was a straight six of the best sentence administered by Jack Coltard, the Deputy Head of the lower school. At the time, one of the boys in our year was a huge bully, he was as big as a full grown man, and...