Health and safety when you were a child.

[Brunlea]

String even!

[rob63]

Torrey was a bloody nasty piece of work, even by the standard of dentists back then.(early 60s).. An absolutely useless innept bullying cretin who even in those days should never have been allowed within a mile of young children.

That was him, you got no choice in the matter, nor your parents. By the time he'd done with you, you looked like an extra from Deliverance!

[Hipper]

Soap box derby on Hammerton Street when racing from top down past church to car park on/in a combination of old pram wheels, wood and spring!

.... no brakes. Getting your feet jammed between the front axle/steering plank and the plank that held this axle.

Of course there are Youtube vids of how to build one now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k9vBgMg8DQ

[Dawlishclaret]

Taking the powder out of bangers and using a length of copper pipe - flattened at one end - to make a gun. Climbing high on bombed buildings (Plymouth) and building dens. Penny for the guy....no thoughts from adults about child protection.

[bfcjg]

Clackers

[timshorts]

Kaolin and morphine from a bottle when you had a stomach ache. I looked forward to that - but then I apparently had liked a barium meal at one point.