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In woodwork class nearly everybody had the stick across their backsides, only I and another lad avoided getting the stick, if my memory serves me right. It all came about with the class getting face side and face edge markings mixed up. Mr Jones the woodwork teacher proceeded to put the stick across their backsides, he came to this lad who was rather rotund and he broke the stick on him. “You can’t get away with that lad, pick up another dowel rod”, that broke too, he now picked up a wooden sword and struck him once more and that also broke. While this was taking place he had a sadistic smile on his face, not bad ‘three for the price of one’. He would never get away with that sort of treatment today.

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