Anyone who wants to see a real 'six of the best' English school cane can visit London's Victoria and Albert Museum, which is currently hosting a Pink Floyd exhibition. Among the exhibits on display is a crook-handled bamboo cane which, so we're told, was used on the bottoms of two members of the group, Roger Waters and Roger 'Syd' Barrett, when they were pupils at Cambridgeshire High School for Boys back in the late '50s.
Ah, those were the days... |