Someone shared their memories of British schooling and unleashed a torrent of nostalgia that might just ring a bell – 22 of the best
12.
This bad boy… pic.twitter.com/0fDMkG9rhK
— LJ (@LORDLJS) August 2, 2025
13.
Having chalk thrown at you or, if you carried on, the blackboard rubber
— Gareth (Apparently Right Wing) (@samm50647) August 2, 2025
14.
Carbolic soap
Shinny Toilet Paper
Panini Football Stickers
2ft of snow and still going to school
"Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after…….."
Sniffing the paper after it was copied on that hand cranked copier.
The rubber that erased ink— Arnold J Rimmer (@ArabDas31313) August 2, 2025
15.
Playing British bulldog until it was deemed a health and safety risk.
— Donald (@answer_me_this8) August 2, 2025
16.
– Bottled milk
– Short pants
– Semolina
– Blazers
– Fights in the playground
– Graffiti such as NUFC OK & Jimmy + Sue etc
– Pencils
– Homework
– Flying chalk dusters & the cane
– Smokers corner
– ‘Cross country’ runs (on the school field)
– Woodwork
– Fights with other schools— Norman de Bruin (@NormandeBruin) August 2, 2025
17.
Those rubbers with a hard and soft end. The hard was supposed to erase biro but in fact just made a big hole in the paper…
— Marjorie Minge Superstar (@MadameMinge) August 2, 2025
18.
Weird rules at my grammar school:
No carrier bags; it's common.
No eating outside; it's common.
Never have your coat unbuttoned; button it or carry it folded over your arm.
Skirts should be knee-length.
Embroidering your initials on your gym kits.
Big gym knickers in two colours.— Ellie (@EllieMBond) August 2, 2025
19.
Pretty much all, yes. Also sharpening a pencil down to an inch of its life at both ends. ergo <> world's smallest pencil. Then it was a "train" running along the groove in the old ink well desks. ✏️️ https://t.co/0MCBgWvNUK
— Dales_Starman(Chris) (@Dales_Starman) August 3, 2025
20.
Every one high on my list — adding stabbing my finger with the compass, still have the scar ♀️
A ruler on back of the legs for talking in classAnd one on the hands of whole class because a boy undid the radiator key and flooded the classroom #Spartacus ☺️ https://t.co/4QUTGwSuSD— TracyJ (@TalkieswithT) August 2, 2025
21.
I’m ancient so:
Writing on a slate in primary school
Frozen milk in the winter
Wearing pinnies for art
Writing lines as a punishment for talking at dinner and for attempting to throw away spinach instead of eating it
Tarmac under the swings
Stinky wellies all lined up— Bella Englebach (@BellaEnglebach) August 2, 2025
22.
* sawdust on vomit
* school cake
* British Bulldogs
* restorative power of wet paper towel
* flyaways
* a dog somehow getting in to the playground & mass hysteria that followed
* skipping ropes made of hard plastic segments that hurt worse than limb breakage— LM (@Lauren79M) August 2, 2025
Can you relate?
I fear this may actually have been written by someone IN MY CLASS… https://t.co/NOjxANzhVC
— Lyn (@LynnyP74) August 2, 2025
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