Room 2D

A video with Becky Jordan and Elizabeth Simpson The third in this trilogy of period productions depicts the then popular Victorian practice of attempting character reform, through the liberal use of corporal punishment on young ladies who displayed a loose moral character. It is set within the kind of typical institution to which young ladies of the night, or indeed any young lady of dubious moral conduct may have found herself sent, by a judicial court or even by anxious parents. Little did the authorities suspect that the practices that occurred therein were themselves of even a more dubious nature. The Reformatory is run by a fanatically religious and strict Matron, feeling it her moral duty to try and save the souls of her two wards, Molly and Nell, who have fallen by the wayside in their pursuit of the pleasures of the flesh. They are made to change from their gaudy street attire to more sombre uniforms. They have to attend c...

From Blushes 30 ‘It’s one of those old clothes horse things,’ Arabella had said. ‘You know, Victorian or something. To hang clothes on, for drying I suppose. Anyway that’s what he always uses.’ She had laughed, showing those small even white teeth. ‘And that, Suzie, is why it’s called a  horsing .’ And here it was. In the big bare room, the Dancing Room they called it, though it was mostly used for gym. The room usually empty but now with a leather armchair placed out in front of the empty fireplace. With Major Greeley sitting in the armchair. And in front of Major Greeley, between him and the fireplace, was  it . The horse. A varnished, wooden Victorian monstrosity. Major Greeley looking up from the pad on his lap. The light for an instant catching his spectacles and shining back, making him eyeless. The eyeless man spoke: ‘Ah good, Miss Mellanby. Susan. Close the door. Stay right there. And get undre...

From Whispers 4 It was Mr Ashford who had sent her there, Pam knew that. Well actually it was her mother but it would have been Mr Ashford telling her mother to do it. In fact she had heard him through the half-open kitchen door. ‘What that girl needs, Mrs Stelling, is a touch of discipline, otherwise you don’t know where she’ll finish up.’ Pam’s mother had said apologetically, ‘I’m really sorry, Mr Ashford.’ What she was sorry about and what Mr Ashford was annoyed about was that Pam didn’t want to go and work in his house. She had left school and started training as a typist but Mr Ashford wanted her to go round to his place part-time. Mr Ashford was very keen on pretty girls of about Pam’s age which was 16. Two of her friends did part-time work at Cranley Hall, where Mr Ashford lived, and they had told Pam what he was like and the sort of thing he liked to do to you. So Pam said she wasn’t going. The trouble was that her d...

From Uniform Girls 32 She arrives in a taxi. They almost all do, though occasionally one may be delivered in a private car, by a relative, a husband perhaps. Usually by taxi, though, as this one: a pretty young woman, dark hair, early twenties. Her pale face has a rather dazed or possibly anxious expression as the vehicle rolls in through the open gates. Her eyes perhaps catch the little plaque on the weather-beaten brick gate pillar. It says Greenfields Health Centre . The fields around are not so much green as golden: it is September and the crops are mostly harvested after a hot summer. There are green trees, though, scattered about the countryside and clustered here in the grounds to provide a pleasant shade. Yes the grounds are green. Tranquil. That is what the brochure says. Tranquillity . Though this young woman’s eyes do not register tranquillity as she alights from the rear of the taxi. The driver’s eyes, not tranquil but...

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