The clock was turned back 50 years at two Abingdon schools to mark half a century of educating the town's young children.

There was not a computer in sight at the Dunmore Infant and Junior schools as both staff and children wallowed in nostalgia.

Some even dressed in 1950s-style uniforms. Desks were pushed up in rows and there was free school milk too.

But there was another, far less inviting reminder of what school life was like 50 years ago for pupils who misbehaved -- those were the days of the cane and the slipper.

Junior school headteacher Dr Susan Clipson-Boyles was lurking with a slipper.

She said: "It served as a reminder of what life was like in school all those years ago."

The original Dunmore County Infant and Junior school opened on Tuesday, February 26, 1952.