Retro toys/playground we had before health & safety stepped in General Chat

I am sure my dad loved us kids but looking back at the dangerous rocking horses he brought us when me & my brothers & sisters were small, makes me wonder
All these rocking horses would be banned now by the health & safety committee

My first dangerous horse the times I trapped my foot in the springs


Numerals times us kids would get our fingers stuck in the springs in this horse


Most dangerous of them all as horse would tip right back & us kids would end up cracking our heads on the floor


The times we fall of this one why trying to turn the front wheel



Yes health & safety has spoilt all parents fun now at seeing their children getting hurt, am wondering if health & safety had these toys when they were 2 to 12 years old that's why they have banned them these days.

They were pretty to have around though. I love that Victorian one.

I think parents are just as bad these days. Have you ever watched any of those Harry Hill home video clip shows? The poor kids need help and a cuddle, but the money grabbing parent just keeps filming!

Then we have the dangerous playgrounds were everything was set in concrete , not a soft rubber mat in sight.

Dad use to encourage us to go down slide am positive he did loved us


Unless you were quick you would end up falling over


The times I fall off & broke my arm


The lethal seesaws


It was the norm to see kids at school with broken arms bruised knees bumps on heads, it was part of growing up, back in the 60's/70's

Oh yes, I well remember those playgrounds!

I was once gently going round on a roundabout when some 'big boys' got on and of course made it go as fast as they could. Instead of having the sense to hold on tight I was so scared I jumped off, and of course hurt myself quite badly!

No child minders back then dad would give us 6 kids a sandwich bottle of water & we were locked out of house why he went to work, we use to spend day on park & in the river or if it was raining went cinema to watch the 1d matinee (1 of us would pay then open fire exit for rest of us to get in) them were the days that kids played out until dust then went home to bed, not like today kids playing on game consoles/computers.

6JRTs I'm pretty sure I had the 2nd one. I barely remember think I was about 4 year old. I remember playing "cowboys & indians" with the horse my brother & my friend.

We have one in the attic

Everybody including my kids either chipped a tooth or fell off at least once

Usually an evil older kid would wait until it was full then spin it fast enough to throw everyone off.
Thanks for the memories! When we were kids we played on a construction site. Rocks, mud, bricks, exposed rebar...don't know how most of us lived to be seniors.

Oooh!
I remember that sickening BUMP when the lower person suddenly jumped off the see-saw and you crashed to the tarmac.
And ...
The boys that polished the end of the slide with candle wax, so you shot off the end of the slide by a yard, and bruised your bum!

That delightful custom never reached my area I'm pleased to say!

We were lucky enough to have woods nearby and spent a lot of time there. However, we also had a lot of fun playing in the numerous bomb sites and the shells of houses which had been bombed. No barriers to stop anyone going in - we kids just used them as playgrounds.

We didn't have any playgrounds near us but in summer my mother would send me off for the day with sandwiches and something to drink and I'd go to the woods or walk across the fields. I had a favourite place I loved going to to eat my picnic which was under an enormous chestnut tree. Another of my favourite occupations in the summer was making dams in streams and I'd often come home wet through!

I was given my first dog, a Lab puppy for my 12th birthday and she and I would go to Wollaton Park to watch the police horses being groomed and then buy a Dandelion and Burdock to drink. No one thought it strange that a young girl and a naughty puppy was wandering about without an adult!

I grew up in the middle of nowhere in a farm cottage and spent most of my time exploring the ‘glens’ and Burns’ with a couple of Gsd’s & Bunty the nanny goat, (who thought she was a dog) on my pretend horse !! Our cottage had a Kirk and Graveyard at bottom of garden it was famous for the ghost of Lady Flora Hastings , I was forever in there Guess I was a bit of a tomboy as dolls & prams were not my thing

That sounds idyllic Vee.

Simple stuff that would be unheard of today. You could buy cap guns and rolls of caps for small change. Yes toy guns that went bang and smoked for children. But we would take the caps and hit them with rocks to make them crack. Or better you'd get some matches and set the roll on fire whooohooo.

We weren't neglected kids or anything. Just in suburban America in the late 60's or early 70's...you got home from school and had a snack, then you went out with the other kids to play to nightfall. The Mom's were cooking or at work, they wanted you out of the house. To us it was freedom.

In the 60's here in Britain too we got home from school, got changed, had tea then out to play until it started going dark. School holidays we only saw the house at mealtimes which were always around the table together.

If we stayed in, everyone though we were sick.

Of course, we didn't have the console games they have now, but I bet we had loads more fun

Plus back in the 60's & 70's kids were a lot healthier & fitter, PE was a 5 mile cross country run which was compulsory & kids were fed dripping sandwiches {Doctors/health workers would had a fit these days if you give a child dripping sandwiches} if you had no football then we would kick a tin in the street, life was so simple back then

Some of us were already grown up in the 60s and 70s!

Ah, bread and dripping! Can't believe I used to eat that. And, as a change, sugar sandwiches!

Married, with children as well!

Bread and dripping - a bit of a luxury as we rarely had roasts. Father got luncheon vouchers so he had his main meal at lunch time so our supper was very basic.

I'm sure it's the same idea, I remember ketchup sandwiches. My parents grew up during the depression so I guess some habits were from back then. But my Dad would take me on an outing and pack sandwiches of just bread n' ketchup. I thought they were delicious.

Or even better on a Sunday evening toasting a thick slice of bread on a toasting fork in front of the fire then spreading it with dripping and a sprinkle of salt ... yummy!

Anyone have crisp sandwiches or chip butties for lunch?

I can remember ketchup sandwiches and crisp sandwiches, but not until I was a teenager. We were probably a bit slow to catch on where I lived!

I loved toasting bread or crumpets on the fire - and we also used to do potatoes in the fire as well - delicious smothered with butter. No low fat spread nonsense then! (Though there was margarine, which was VILE!)