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[Vamps]

I was born 1960 so fully agree with everything in the OP, my youngest (19 yrs) cannot understand how we ever got by without a mobile phone !!!

1957 and the kid's can't imagine what it was like not to have a TV in our bedroom, let alone music of any sort. We all sat at night in front of the only fire in the house watching a Black and White TV.

[HolyCount]

I was born 1960 so fully agree with everything in the OP, my youngest (19 yrs) cannot understand how we ever got by without a mobile phone !!!

lol.  The only phone most of us had in my early years was the GPO A & B button telephone in the  kiosk at the end of the street!  And you often had to wait in a queue for that!!

And party lines ---- the other end of ours used to go mad as I was listening to dial-a-disc all the time ...... dad used to go mad too  !!!

[HolyCount]

I was born 1960 so fully agree with everything in the OP, my youngest (19 yrs) cannot understand how we ever got by without a mobile phone !!!

1957 and the kid's can't imagine what it was like not to have a TV in our bedroom, let alone music of any sort. We all sat at night in front of the only fire in the house watching a Black and White TV.

All 3 channels -- actually we were blessed -- with the right weather conditions we could get 4 (ish) !

[STMO123]

I also survived the workhouse and climbing up and down all those chimneys

[stuart30]

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE

1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.


They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.


Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.


We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .


As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.


We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.


We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.


We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......


WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.


We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .


We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!


We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents .


We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.


We made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.


We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!


Football teams had trials and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!


The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!


This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!


The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.


We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned


HOW TO

DEAL WITH IT ALL!




And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!




You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.




and while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.




Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!  

How true all that is,

plus:

"eating" your brothers toy lead soldiers;
going all round the streets collecting jam jars and glass bottles to be paid pennies for them;
at six walking to and from school across busy roads;
breathing in the soot from coal fired steam engines and the chimneys of factories and houses; drinking and eating dairy and meat products never being kept in a fridge
doing the shopping for mum at the shops, unaccompanied, when just seven;
consuming full fat, full sugar, full salt everything, and yes,
as already mentioned - the classic box cart - riding on your brothers cart, with useless brakes, balancing on the back hurtling down paths / roads / anywhere "dangerous"!

But yes, we survived!! 8-) 8-) 8-)
 

But too be fair in the 1900"s things were different.....

[Auto Addict]

Anybody remember Fire Cans?

Tate & Lyle treacle tin with holes bodged in the sides, piece of wire as a handle, light a fire in it, using plenty of coal slack.

Swing it around above your head, looked spectacular in the dark.

[Vamps]

Anybody remember Fire Cans?

Tate & Lyle treacle tin with holes bodged in the sides, piece of wire as a handle, light a fire in it, using plenty of coal slack.

Swing it around above your head, looked spectacular in the dark.

Yep, never flung them around but spent hours with kids just keeping them burning with chippings or any bits you could find.  Catering tins were best.

[HolyCount]

Being country folk -- our delight was to slip bangers ( firework - not sausage) into cow pats  

[Auto Addict]

Being country folk -- our delight was to slip bangers ( firework - not sausage) into cow pats  

Hooligan

[albitz]

Born in 1959,used to spend tuppence (when I had it )in the phonebox on "dial a disc".
when I was 6 I nicked my dads car :
When I was old enough to walk to the shop around the corner,my granny used to send me to buy her 10 woodbines.
Didnt kill me,but the adults would probably get locked up these days.