Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
We had to in primary school too, and I remember when we came indoors on a winter's day, and we all had a peculiar kind of mottling on our legs, which we called corned beef legs. Never seen it since.
Yes I remember that too. Might have been the onset of frostbite. They would kick us out in any weather except rain but it doesn't rain on bitterly cold days.

Nowadays there'd be prosecutions of course.