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What can you remember from your childhood and youth that you did that today health and safety or snowflakes would throw a wobbly at.
Lighthearted comments please it's not meant to be that serious.
Mums putting us in cars on hot summer days where the plastic seats gave you third degree burns ! |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks  "
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!! |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!"
Watching Monty Python  |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python "
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No "
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ? |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ?"
No
Trouble at mill
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Starting our own bonfire on plot night ..collecting old wood and furniture weeks before..lighting the fireworks waiting inches away from them then ambling away if they seemed lit |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ?
No
Trouble at mill
Top hand capstan gone askew off treddle "
Aww! was waiting for 'nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition'! |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ?
No
Trouble at mill
Top hand capstan gone askew off treddle Aww! was waiting for 'nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition'!"
Now that would be obvious  |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ?
No
Trouble at mill
Top hand capstan gone askew off treddle Aww! was waiting for 'nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition'!
Now that would be obvious "
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ?
No
Trouble at mill
Top hand capstan gone askew off treddle Aww! was waiting for 'nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition'!
Now that would be obvious
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again"
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brilliant.I love the "judean people's front' one best..(that's why I try and get in every other thread!) |
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"Swimming in the weir during long hot summers"
oh yes..i once swam across a dam ..at widest part..half way across a friend's black Alsatian decided to join me and put his paws on my shoulders right in the middle ..always wonder how I survived that !
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Cycled a bike without a helmet!
Cycle down a hill with your mate on the handlebars, thinking about it now it's scary!!
And also doing sponsored walks used to go around collecting money and step into total strangers Houses while they looked for change... |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ?
No
Trouble at mill
Top hand capstan gone askew off treddle Aww! was waiting for 'nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition'!
Now that would be obvious
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again..
brilliant.I love the "judean people's front' one best..(that's why I try and get in every other thread!)"
More of a people's front of Judea girl myself to be honest |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ?
No
Trouble at mill
Top hand capstan gone askew off treddle Aww! was waiting for 'nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition'!
Now that would be obvious
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again..
brilliant.I love the "judean people's front' one best..(that's why I try and get in every other thread!)
More of a people's front of Judea girl myself to be honest "
Splitters!! |
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I think they were called jarts ? Basically a bloody big weighted dart that stuck where it landed.
It was supposed to be a garden game with rules but we just lobbed them anywhere.
Rule 1, if it hits you it will hurt (ALOT) but you should have moved 
Numerous accidents, hundreds of hospital visits and a couple of deaths put paid to that game |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ?
No
Trouble at mill
Top hand capstan gone askew off treddle Aww! was waiting for 'nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition'!
Now that would be obvious
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again..
brilliant.I love the "judean people's front' one best..(that's why I try and get in every other thread!)
More of a people's front of Judea girl myself to be honest
Splitters!!"
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"The witches hat also known as the maypole in the playground. Cause of many a fractured bone in playgrounds across the country over the years."
If it's the one I'm thinking if it was one of my favourites along with the spiders web one |
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Most of my childhood memories of safety issues revolve around cars and they fill me with horror just think of the consequences had anything gone wrong.
Dad played cricket at the weekend for a local team, all traffic police except dad and one guy who was a nurse. After the match they would all go to the pub and drink several pints before going home, the heaviest drinkers were the police officers!
I have one memory of being in a friend of the family’s estate car. Driver, 4 adult passengers all with a child on their lap and 4 more kids in the boot. Not a seatbelt among us!
The final one I remember was going the the local working men’s club for dad to play snooker. Coming home my sisters were asleep in the back seat and I sat on dad’s knee helping him steer as he drove home! |
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"Most of my childhood memories of safety issues revolve around cars and they fill me with horror just think of the consequences had anything gone wrong.
Dad played cricket at the weekend for a local team, all traffic police except dad and one guy who was a nurse. After the match they would all go to the pub and drink several pints before going home, the heaviest drinkers were the police officers!
I have one memory of being in a friend of the family’s estate car. Driver, 4 adult passengers all with a child on their lap and 4 more kids in the boot. Not a seatbelt among us!
The final one I remember was going the the local working men’s club for dad to play snooker. Coming home my sisters were asleep in the back seat and I sat on dad’s knee helping him steer as he drove home!"
I think that was pretty standard behaviour
We used to go to team sports events in the back of a van about 15 of us, no seats no seatbelt sand for a laugh we'd try to stand up for the corners and braking etc.
Happy memories though |
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We jumped from the tops of the communal garages onto the grass, see who could jump the furthest- making sure you dodged those playing marbles.
The most stupid thing we’d do, was the small kids like me, would agree to let the bigger, cooler kids, jump from a minuscule ramp in the road over us- all without helmets and pads- and that was the cyclists, we just had the strength of prayer and relied on squeezing our eyes tightly shut x Viv x |
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Health and safety.....butting their noses in...saving bloody lives. Boring fuckers eh
Health and safety doesn't stop the fun. When it does it's bring the scale goat, used by those who do Wang to stop the fun. |
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"Health and safety.....butting their noses in...saving bloody lives. Boring fuckers eh
Health and safety doesn't stop the fun. When it does it's bring the scale goat, used by those who do Wang to stop the fun. "
The point is it didn't exist back when this thread is talking about and surprisingly 99% of us are still alive and enjoying reminiscing about the good old days and the fun we had.
I just knew someone would join a feel good retro reminiscing thread and try to spoil it
Congratulations
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"Health and safety.....butting their noses in...saving bloody lives. Boring fuckers eh
Health and safety doesn't stop the fun. When it does it's bring the scale goat, used by those who do Wang to stop the fun.
The point is it didn't exist back when this thread is talking about and surprisingly 99% of us are still alive and enjoying reminiscing about the good old days and the fun we had.
I just knew someone would join a feel good retro reminiscing thread and try to spoil it
Congratulations
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How has it spoilt of....lighten up for god's sake lol
I'm just pointing out that you can't blame actual health and safety because that's not what it's for.
Also, most of what's been posted is fuck all to do with health and safety. It's not against health and safety not to leave your kids in a car while you're in the pub for example  |
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"Swinging as high as you could, trying to go all the way over.
And if you couldn't get all the way over (I never could) jumping off at the highest point."
And seeing which kid could jump the furthest away from the swing.
Remember those gondola type swings where you'd sit opposite someone and alternately pull down on a rope
They nearly went vertical |
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"Playing kerby "
Jesus... My first memory of this was at my cousins place, was out in the road with the kids of the estate they live on... My cousins mates only went and picked up a massive concrete boulder to play the game with...
Needless to say I stood there scared and moved to get behind my cousin...
My auntie still lives in the same house and even now when I see that stretch of kerb I shudder! |
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That was before we got the no win no fee brigade, the company I work for used to tell staff to put a claim in against the company when they got injured.
They knocked every case into touch, as they could document what they have in place, what the staff have been trained in and also proof that the employee didn't for the training given. |
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"sitting in car outside pub while our parents drank inside
they occassionally brought us out /crisps
Can you remember any pubs with serving hatches for the kids ?"
no cos we were never taken in by our parents  |
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"sitting in car outside pub while our parents drank inside
they occassionally brought us out /crisps
Can you remember any pubs with serving hatches for the kids ?
no cos we were never taken in by our parents "
The hatches let the kids buy pop and crisps from outside the pub or from the porch area without entering |
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"Health and safety.....butting their noses in...saving bloody lives. Boring fuckers eh
Health and safety doesn't stop the fun. When it does it's bring the scale goat, used by those who do Wang to stop the fun.
The point is it didn't exist back when this thread is talking about and surprisingly 99% of us are still alive and enjoying reminiscing about the good old days and the fun we had.
I just knew someone would join a feel good retro reminiscing thread and try to spoil it
Congratulations
How has it spoilt of....lighten up for god's sake lol
I'm just pointing out that you can't blame actual health and safety because that's not what it's for.
Also, most of what's been posted is fuck all to do with health and safety. It's not against health and safety not to leave your kids in a car while you're in the pub for example "
safety .... knocking handbrake off, fighting each other, over heating in summer like pets etc |
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"Climbing trees making dens from bits of wood laying around always had cuts bruises and splinters"
Great way to grow up and how it should be.
Now it's all social media and trying to look like adult women when they should be enjoying a missed childhood. Only imo of course |
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Real carol singing to houses as a kid and going in for a mince pie etc and warming up by the fire
You expected danger and lived with it
Deep snow was normal - we got on with life, making the effort to overcome it
I often didn't tell my family where I was - it was normal
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"Most of my childhood memories of safety issues revolve around cars and they fill me with horror just think of the consequences had anything gone wrong.
Dad played cricket at the weekend for a local team, all traffic police except dad and one guy who was a nurse. After the match they would all go to the pub and drink several pints before going home, the heaviest drinkers were the police officers!
I have one memory of being in a friend of the family’s estate car. Driver, 4 adult passengers all with a child on their lap and 4 more kids in the boot. Not a seatbelt among us!
The final one I remember was going the the local working men’s club for dad to play snooker. Coming home my sisters were asleep in the back seat and I sat on dad’s knee helping him steer as he drove home!
I think that was pretty standard behaviour
We used to go to team sports events in the back of a van about 15 of us, no seats no seatbelt sand for a laugh we'd try to stand up for the corners and braking etc.
Happy memories though "
Same, my primary school teacher was the rugby and football coach and used to take us to away matches in the back of his rusty old transit motor home. 15 kids crammed in the back of this thing, bouncing of the walls, cupboards, windows etc. Then when you got there everyone had to get changed on the touchline.
Definitely wouldn't be allowed now for so many reasons. Good times though and that teacher was a legend. |
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"Home made sledges
Fertiliser sacks
there was 10000 of us living in a shoebox in the middle of the road ...we could not afford fertiliser sacks
Shoe box???
Luxury!!!
We 'ad to get up 'alf an 'our before we went to bed and for breakfast we 'ad t' lick grit off middle o' road!!Watching Monty Python
No
NO ! This isn't the Spanish inquisition..were you expecting them ?
No
Trouble at mill
Top hand capstan gone askew off treddle Aww! was waiting for 'nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition'!
Now that would be obvious
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again"
Brilliant. |
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Playing in a derelict Water Mill and crossing a railway line via a gap in the hedges to get to a disused quarry freight railway siding to go climbing up abandoned loading platforms.
Those early 1970s Public Information Films weren't warnings they were suggestions far more informative than "Why don't you..." |
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