Henry Grant 07

Staff Room Corridor

Steve Bacon writes: Here we have a photo of the staff room corridor which was approached by some steps which can’t be seen in the photo.  I have no idea who the two malfeasants are who are standing with noses to the staffroom wall.  It was a frequent sanction to have to miss break and stand there for minor misdemeanours.

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In Brian Tilbrook's recollections he writes: I think it was Peter Gosden who instigated the "wailing wall", a space outside, in the staff room corridor, where delinquents studied the brickwork.

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August 2025, John Boston writes: Wow, this one takes me back.  The instruction, irrespective of the Master involved, was always: “Go and Stand Facing the Wall, Boy”.  There was a St Nicholas version of Britain’s Got Talent in 1958ish during which Geoff Lee and John Richardson (aka Ricky) performed a quite brilliant sketch in which they dressed up as schoolboys and ran through a parody of school life.  Go and Stand Facing the Wall, Boy was the repeated refrain and it brought the house down.