Tawse

It was used for educational discipline, primarily in Scotland, but also in schools in a few English cities e.g. Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead, Liverpool, Manchester and Walsall.

Scottish state (public) schools used the tawse to punish pupils of either sex on the palm of the outstretched hand.

[citation needed] In Walsall and Gateshead, and in some schools in Manchester and Nottingham, students (mainly male) were tawsed on the seat of the trousers.

[2] This judgement led indirectly to the use of the tawse (and all other forms of corporal punishment) being banned by law in UK state schools.

[3][4] Original tawses sold for around £6 in 1982 but twenty years later, some collectors were paying hundreds of pounds each for rare items.