UK. This was &#x27;88-&#x27;94. Small prep school in Hertfordshire that has since modernised and gone co-ed.<p>It&#x27;s almost a shame. Our lives there bordered on abusive in many regards, but it was brilliant - we were allowed to run around with rifles, go off exploring the countryside unsupervised, play with explosives, and the education was ridiculously good in hindsight. We had a lot of freedom within the rules - but if you broke them... Corporal punishment! Usually just a birch to the hands, and oh boy did it work - never got caught the same way twice!