Room 2D

From Blushes Supplement 2.  Some lovely pictures and ideas which sparked responses from the readership. Sir, In the first Blushes Supplement you did a  photo series  ’by request’ on suspenders and stocking tops and asked if there were other requests. Yes! I would like a photo series on girls in shorts! There were tantalising glimpses in the  series  [Jobsworth] printed to illustrate ‘Educating Sandra’ but that splendid girl was stripped naked too quickly. I do  not  mean modern athlete’s shorts with those side slits. They are too loose and too short. Punishment shorts should be thin and snug and cover the whole bottom and least two inches of thigh — so that the delicious sculptural shape of the girl bum — is seen as a whole. For penal whippings in Holland in the 19th century girls were fitted with such shorts (‘drawers’) when being ‘publicly’ whipped within prisons and it was quite usual to drench them with water just before

Story (?) from Blushes 1 with a visual appearance by Alan Bell himself I believe. The following letter, addressed to the department of the Home Office responsible for Approved and Industrial Schools, formed part of a report submitted by the then Chief Inspector of Approved Schools in Warwickshire, which as an insight into the conditions obtaining in such establishments is illuminating; as an exposition of the kind of double-think with which the administrators of approved schools — or one of them at least — approached the matter of corporal punishment, it is, to say the least, revealing. For anyone interested in verifying the authenticity of the document, it may be found under the reference: HO 45/14545 at the Public Record Office. Kenilworth Training School Model Rules Chief Inspector of Reformatories (C.P. in girls under 16) Minutes In May last there was a serious revolt on the part of the girls at this Reformatory