BRUTAL BRITAIN

At our junior school in Yorkshire. I had turned up late for class three times So our strict class teacher, called Miss Howarth Sent me to the head mistress to be strapped. Miss Kershaw then gave me six of the best. I started crying from the stinging pain. Miss told me that if I don’t stop crying She then would give me another thrashing. She told me that men should not show feelings. Be British and stand up with some backbone. This was back in nineteen fifty seven But I still remember the stinging pain.