This blog will be used to provide information about where to go next if the forum disappears again. I will also be posting some other pics and information that I find around the internet - similar to how the forum pic updates used to work on the forum. 26th September 2021 forum status - up and running at https://www.voy.com/249907/ Here's a fun pic from www.daysoutscotland.com - it seems to be a promotional photo for the Inveraray Jail and County Court museum in Inveraray, Argyll and Bute (about 60 miles from Glasgow). Among the many historical 19th century attractions at the jail, you or your kids can "try out the birching table". And of course the thumbscrews! Find out more at https://www.inverarayjail.co.uk There's another similar pic that also seems to be a promotional photo for the same attraction: Real life judicial birchings in the 19th century were done on bare skin, as with birchings in schools. But it seems that the birches at the museum can still sting e