Dangerous Stunts We Used To Do!!

[Pauline Bell 10]

we used to jump the barges on the canal @ Tinsley, then we would go down the steps and dip our fingers in Fussells milk the drivers had left on the table. Neither of us could swim a stroke I think we would be 8 or 9 at the time. Our Dad's would have given us the belt had they ever found out. Naturally my own children were warned never to go down the canal bank but do you think they took any notice I don't.

[trastrick 866]

I've seen touch burners in the museum, but what did you do with them?

 

We made them often. We used to run around with them trailing smoke, and we used them as handwarmers.

 

Recipie:

 

Good "Docker" clay.

 

Bake in oven overnight, (with your conkers)

 

Tightly packed woolen scraps (gave off most smoke)

 

Don't drop it.

[trastrick 866]

Using dodgy ice on ponds, and those old wartime holding tanks, as rafts.

 

Came very close to snuffing it one day. Mervyn Knight pulled me out.

[trastrick 866]

hanging onto the back of buses and sides of ice cream vans

home made go karting

toboganing down the longest steepest hills of pure ice with just a cement bag

jumping from one branch of a tree and grabbing hold of another branch on another tree

climbing up walls, buildings, trees as high as possible without a safety net, sometimes falling, sometimes jumping

exploring sewer pipes and other very dark tight scary places

camping out in scary places you really shouldnt

firing fireworks where you shouldnt

throwing glass bottles, aerosols and fireworks on bonfires

dressing up as a guy fawkes and getting booted

 

As kids we were more in touch with our natural nature.

 

We grazed and foraged (nuts, birds eggs, scromping) learned how to make weapons from the woods, how to throw stones, how to climb, how to catch fish with little or no gear. How to shape and bake pottery (touchburners) how to survive a few overnights with no camping gear.

 

In just a few decades this IPhone generation has lost complete touch with their roots.