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The school is the antithesis of the Enid Blyton or Angela Brazil-type posh girls ' boarding school ; its pupils are wicked and often well armed, and mayhem is rife.

The mistresses ( as female teachers in Britain were known at the time ) are also disreputable.

Cartoons often showed dead bodies of girls who had been murdered with pitchforks or succumbed to violent team sports, sometimes with vultures circling ; girls drank, gambled and smoked.

It is reputed that the gymslip style of dress worn by the girls was closely modelled on the uniform of the school that Searle's daughter Kate attended, JAGS in Dulwich.

The films implied that the girls were the daughters of gangsters, crooks, shady bookmakers and other low-lifes and the institution is often referred to as a " female borstal ".