[Doug]

Oh I can think of a few accidents we had as kids. Back then we had less to do indoors so the great outdoors was our playground. Toys we didn’t have a lot of, but we did make many of our own Bow’s, arrows, catapults etc and often used them to effect.

I seem to remember that most of our accidents didn’t result from toys; we had the odd drowning from swimming in the lodges or worse “clay pits”.

Falling through holes in floors or trap door in old disused railway buildings, warehouses and mills cost the odd limb as did falling from bridges, trees, walls and barns and the like. Barbed wire was rare but I managed to get myself a three inch scar on the back of my right leg after running into it whilst evading an enraged farmer in my youth.