Trouble with Foxes

Yes David, had a few run in with Bobby Saville, nice bloke, good job he was a friend of my dad or I would be still in SING SING.

On a more serious note, when a youth became a real problem they were dealt with in a manner they never wanted repeated.

Believe cat o ninetails and birch not a very pleasant experience.

Today just the opposite, mollycoddled and given new identities, best education, no wonder some take up crime as an employment.

Regards.

eard the tales, 50-60 years ago and a few times, of some who had the Birch.
The consensus is that they still went out and poached rabbits etc. Knowing full well they would, if caught, be birched again. So sadly it wasn't a deterrent!

However, two authentic and real truths were never brought to mind. A. Their family and kids were hungry, and they were on the bread line.
B. They were robbing and burglarising homes. They were not stealing for fun and Joyriding, wrecking others cars.
Still, a sociality of respect was for them too—only poached for a necessity, mostly under greedy and a heartless Tory government's etc.

Indeed malnutrition was rife till the great Clement / Attlee government.
School dinners and free milk. The family allowance. The N.H.S. etc. etc. meant the working class could and would go and see a doctor. Instead of asking the chemist. As they didn't have the 1/6 shillings to pay him before the cost of going to the chemist. Yes, of course, it takes hardly a brain use to realise that the chemist was, though helpful ... but not in the same capacity at the Doctor's

I had five siblings, my mum paid 1penny a week each to the Doctor and a shilling for Dad and Mother.

Do not know if it covered everything but I was well looked after when I had pneumania, and I can still remember the smell of the cayling poltices being boiled, put on a bandage and wrapped around my chest.

Was Easter and I had more Easter eggs from neighbours than ever since.

Time when neighbours were a God send at times.

MEMORIES. (are made of this) feel a song comming on.

Regards.

Easter eggs eh!
We were asleep. Mum bought two large bars of Milk chocolate. boil the 5 eggs. Peel them and cover them in chocolate, Serve both. As an Easter egg and a breakfast. O, for the good old days eh.

1n early 60's would be at the cafe. Was 15 or so. Just after I'd started work and packed up the early the Sunday Paper round. Had been to a village dance somewhere and walk home. Some times slept in an haystack. Some times went for a swim in the river. Went to the dance from aged about thirteen.
Would hear tale sometimes of a car being nicked. 'I'd bet that is at Corby, or some place' was the cry. Police informed. By dinner time, always before tea time, the car had been found and back home. Youngsters, most likely, had used it as a way to get home. No damage whatsoever. Parked nice too.

Was only aware of two young people who were birtched in our area for what would now be almost overlooked.

Can assure you they never did anything to warrent same again.

This would be in the late fourties when they were teenagers.

Do not agree with corporal punishment but think today there is encouragement rather than deterant towards bad behaviour.

Many are better off in prison and have servants at hand who have to comply with the Human Rights whilst they completely ignore them.

Millions of hardworking class people have no where near the life of Old Riley many prisoners have.

There is no deterant whatsoever.

What beats me is why those living rough do not take up crime, IT PAYS.

Regards.

Millions of hardworking class people have no where near the life of Old Riley many prisoners have.

There is no deterant whatsoever.

What beats me is why those living rough do not take up crime, IT PAYS.ve to agree with Misty here.
However, many try to get put away as it is said. only for the police to lock up over night , and warned and let go... Another not want cost to a governments that had no moral fibre.
Close down the prison... only 1 in seven rapists charged and released, and many of the I in seven- nigh all commit the same offence.

Just make sure the well to do have a well guarded Police patrol.