What did you do as a child that would be considered dangerous today?

[olgaandcoda]

We played in bombed out buildings! One was an old pub with just charred beams and a long drop into the cellar? We used to walk along the beams. This was 60’s London.

[hellin family]

Originally Posted by SussexFamily

Regent cinema is in N Yorkshire where I grew up.

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Ha! I thought your username was a reference to the county!

[Perthite]

My mother was born in the 1940s when there were a lot of WW2 souvenirs kicking around - one day she found a German officer’s pistol to play with and, aged 4, fired a live bullet which lodged in a window frame next door.

In the days before seatbelts and child locks she also fell out of a moving car and wasn’t even taken to hospital.

There was a distinct lack of health and safety culture in my own childhood but I guess things were better then than they were for previous generations.

[SussexFamily]

Originally Posted by Perthite

My mother was born in the 1940s when there were a lot of WW2 souvenirs kicking around - one day she found a German officer’s pistol to play with and, aged 4, fired a live bullet which lodged in a window frame next door.

In the days before seatbelts and child locks she also fell out of a moving car and wasn’t even taken to hospital.

There was a distinct lack of health and safety culture in my own childhood but I guess things were better then than they were for previous generations.

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👍🏻 To Perthite!

[kk20]

It is a wonder we survived. I was obsessed with jumping off things. We used to jump off the old lock keepers cottage into the canal (at the navigation in Wigan)it was deep but still a bit crazy. Rope swings over rivers, sliding down the spillway on canals. Happy days.

[ROBBOTOO]

We went skiing with the school. After a few initial lessons together we were allowed off totally on our own to do whatever we wanted. Up ski lifts/chair lifts, off some scary heights even if you were a total novice.

[JAF]

Walked to school on my own whilst still in the infants and crossed quite busy roads to get there. A lot of what we did would just not be acceptable today but we also fell in the get on your bikes and go for miles club from morn to night. Those were the days. Playground equipment that would now be deemed far too dangerous and when you fell off it was onto a hard solid surface.

[Perthite]

Another of my mother’s experiences highlight another type of risk that wasn’t considered in the 1950s.

At secondary school the girls would have hockey in the local public park. As they all wore the same kit and there were no coloured bibs, when they would play a game the teams were “skirts v knickers”. Men would gather every week to watch these poor teenage girls running around like that.

Unimaginable now that this could have been allowed to happen.

[Dougie]

We lived at the top of a hill and when it snowed all the kids used to 'borrow' tea trays from our parents and slide down the middle of the road. Many a time we would be pulling each other out from underneath parked cars 😂😂

[arielrocks]

Sat in the boot of the car to make room
For the adults.

Got lifted on and off the back of my dads truck with the crane he had on the back

Rode my bike without a helmet

Ate Xmas turkey that had been left on the side for a couple of days after Xmas. Mum used to just keep a clean tea towel over it 🤢🤣