Life as a Boarding Master at Old Swinford Hospital School circa 1975
October 18th 2018 I’ve just written two articles about the school where I began teaching: Old Swinford Hospital in Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK. The first article is inspired by a 1971 staff photo; the second, ‘A Barbarous Practice’, is a commentary on corporal punishment at the school. I still haven’t got the place out of my system; now I want to record some of the features of boarding school life there
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