The Secret of Crickley Hall

[RiaOverTheRainbow]

Did anyone else watch this? Thoroughly creeped out.

Yes there was the slipper at my Junior school in the 70s and the headmistress in the Infants used to give people a hiding across her knee in assembly. Can't imagine that now.
MrsMushroom Your theory sounds very plausible. You might have got it! Only thing is how would the dad in the story have decided independently to go and stay at Crickley Hall?

Ooh maybe Percy or someone knew that Nancy had Cam so he somehow enticed the family to stay there so they could be reunited with their son?

if mrs mushrooms theory is correct then maybe percy got the dad the work and secretly advised renting the hall

i did say it seems a massive house to have for a family with 2 adults and 2 children plus woofa :)

A friend of mine, now in her mid 40s, went to a primary school in Scotland where the cane was so prevalent that if you did 10 sums and got 3 wrong you would get 3 strokes of the cane.
She said it utterly changed her personality and destroyed her confidence

At my school there was the slipper and my brothers' school had the cane and the ruler but they were hardly ever used.

Oh my God Tunip, how awful. So glad it is illegal now. Imagine having to send your kids to school knowing that could happen. What an appalling way to teach maths!! I wonder how the parents felt about it? Did they accept it or were they upset about it?

I will never ever forget being slapped and slapped by a teacher when I was about 7. I had drawn a picture of her and took it up to show her. She screwed it up, threw it in the bin, and literally attacked me., slapping my legs so hard she left marks. It was horrific and in front of the classs too I have no idea what I did wrong, but it has never left me :(

I would love to find her now..

I remember people being sent to the headmaster or deputy for the cane in secondary school so between 82 and 85. They also had a female teacher who would cane the girls. I also remember in primary school the headmaster grabbing a boy by his arm and doing that thing of swinging him around with a hand following hitting him on the bum. It was just part of school (and home because we got smacked like that at home too).

It was a badge of honour among the boys in our school to be caned too.

Hmm yes. How would the Dad have just coincidentally had a job offer there? [rethink]

Maybe nancy is related to the mum (Suzanne) and she once lived in the hall?? Seems weird she dreamt of it the day before they moved - maybe she has been there before years ago

Or am I really clutching at straws???

But yes the dad suddenly had an offer of temp work there for a few month - planned????

There was possibly some glaring clue given in the first episode...you're not clutching at straws....I'm going to watch the first part again to try and glean something from the section where they're at home in the beginning!

The talk of canings right up to the 1970s makes me think even if Nancy had shown people the punishment book,in the 40s,it would not have shocked people. They would possibly have agreed with the headteacher. Many people did not question harsh discipline in those days.

Let us know your findings Mrs M!

Will do!

Will do!

I still have both on planner - will rewatched as well as if you find anything mrs m let me know how many mins in

Gawd listen to us / all over a tv programme

I think the punishment book was pretty extreme though - the same child being punished over and over again for crying, etc. Even in that context I don't think it would have looked normal.

Just watched the 1st ten minutes and the only thing that stood out was when Cam said he'd been "playing bombs" and dropped a ball onto a lego house from above...just like a bomb dropping.

So obviously relevant somehow.....

I thought corporal punishment was made illeagle around 1979?

Liking your theory mushroom

Oh yes. So maybe Cam was Stefan in a previous life and he remembers the bombs dropping.

I thought it was about 87?

This suggests it was not illegal in private schools until about 98.

could be, I've no idea why 79 is in my head. For some reason I have the idea it was just before i went to school (1980) as I remember talk of the headmaster 'no longer using the slipper'

I wondered if he was Stefan too but it's a bit off as a theory somehow. Maybe the house they live in, in London is related somehow to Stefan or Nancy? Was it bombed in the war maybe?