I wonder, could these latter two be the same Pauline? The dates could certainly fit and the family could have relocated.
Possibly ladies of mature age in Cumbria are more inclined to take to Facebook to reveal their experience in receipt of SCP. Or perhaps I just haven’t noticed in the past. Anyway, congratulations on another excellent listing.
Going back to Ms Janet Dines, famous for the caning of Lynne Simmonds at the Northwich County Grammar School for Girls, and the consequential court case, a snippet of information and a query if I may please.
Now there is no comparison between the two court cases. In one two schoolgirls were abusively punished on a trumped up charge and the headmaster responsible and his assistant were found guilty. In the other a headmistress caned a very naughty schoolgirl fairly severely but in a fairly conventional manner and was found not guilty, But while it is fairly well known, and has I think been mentioned here that John Guise was a cricket player of a very high standard, county level or thereabouts, so was Janet Dines.
Jennifer Saunders the entertainer, who was a pupil at Northwich County Grammar School under Miss Dines, mentions in her various recollections of her time there that Miss Dines was a keen cricket player and instituted an annual staff v pupils match, although cricket was not on the sports curriculum. A little research reveals some of the cricketing career of Janet Dines, including score cards while playing for county and regional sides against opponents like New Zealand Ladies touring teams. I haven’t linked any of this. For one thing I’m not convinced that many look at links anyway and in this case, at least to see the score cards, a little trickery is necessary to avoid paying a membership fee to the cricketing archive body holding them. However for anyone interested I will post links. It will be up to them whether they indulge in the trickery. Nothing that would get you caned by Miss Dines and perfectly legal.
And on the subject of caning by Miss Dines, my query. I note that in your contribution #5 you say of her that:
The same could be said about her previous School in Romford. Lots of mentions of her name, yet very few actual cases of her using the cane. When she did use it, it was applied across the hands and bottoms of girls and across the bottom of boys..
It is well known here that my areas of special interest are the technicalities of the Forum’s operation and schoolboys receiving SCP from female teachers. I assume from the above that you did some research on the Romford (comprehensive I think) school, where I believe Miss Dines was first a Maths teacher and then assistant head, and that this indicated that boys were caned on the bottom by her. Did you perchance find any accounts of or from boys caned by her that might be of interest to a connoisseur like me and if so do you have any details or links please?
This has been a most interesting thread so far, and tends to bear out the one time contention by the sadly missed Lotta Nonsense that any school corporal punishment one can imagine will have been experienced somewhere at some time at some school by some pupil at least once! I express doubt that teachers had cabinets full of canes and sometimes allowed erring pupils to choose the instrument of retribution as claimed by Sheena and Sorepants reveals that his headmaster sometimes did exactly that. It is well known that the giant cane, as featured in Oliver_Sydney‘s contribution #7, was a figment of the Bottoms Up team imagination, and yet we have Lesley claiming that she and three friends were required to bend over a desk to be ‘caned’ in just that fashion by Mr Howell wielding a window pole.
I am convinced that somewhere out there just waiting to be found is my own ultimate prize. A UK school where prefects, monitors or other student functionaries, appointed by the school to have disciplinary powers over other students, administered cane, slipper, strap or whatever to erring students of the opposite sex. A quick reminder of the rules to avoid a repeat of well meant but invalid claims made in the past. It has to be conventional corporal punishment, and it has to be delivered by virtue of powers granted by the school authorities.
Specifically combined cadet corps and punishments given by student NCOs to student cadets do not count unless they were conventional CP of some sort. Doing push-ups and running laps with rifles held above the head may be corporal punishments in that they punish the body, but they are outwith the range of corporal punishments as usually considered here. Ideally what I’m looking for is a school where the juvenile Another_Lurker, knees knocking in his short trousers and anxiously surveying the cane on the table of the prefects’ court, would have possibly been facing the prospect of it being applied across the tightly stretched seat of said short trousers by the captain of the school’s female tennis or badminton squad or another senior female student.
But there doesn’t have to be a student court involved and any other official cross gender student – student CP will do, whether it’s female – male, male – female or both. Alas my school was all male and anyway I got off with lines!
