How close did we come to killing ourselves as kids????
 

With the brain cells still only few in number we were blissfully unaware how near to killing ourselves when nippers. I remember (just) walking along the remaining walls of a burnt out factory, about 30ish feet up. Old cars had been pushed into the space between the walls and I told my mates that I could jump down onto the roof of one of them for a "tanner" "go on then," bet made. off I went, the drop lasted forever and it started to dawn that this was stupid just about the same time I hit the roof of the car and my knees went way past my ears and bum hits the roof!!!! The only thing that saved me was the roof giving way and acting as a damper for the fall. Never did get my tanner! :mad::mad::mad:

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Came close a couple of times as a kid, but came even closer twice as a drunken teenager.:D

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I remember one time, when fireworks could be bought by 13 year old's.

I had a brother, 4 years older than me, he was able to buy bangers, convinced me that putting a firework in a vans petrol tank would make it look fantastic.

I was sent with the firework, a match, and something to strike the match, towards a neibours van, I lit the fire work, being nervous I didn't wait until it started to fizz, I threw it into the tank, it (fortunately) it had already gone out, otherwise neither I, my brother, a couple of his mates or the neibours would be here today.

:eek:

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Got to admit, it was years later that I realised how dangerous the task my 'big bruvver' had sent me on, He swears blind he doesn't remember the incident, but I know and now, you know he is lying.

Duck, here comes Darren, don't do 'owt he tells you!
:eek:

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You'd probably have been OK. Petrol only burns at the surface, and can't be lit by a cigarette, so the wick-type fuse on a banger wouldn't have had an effect either.

You need something that is hot enough to get the petrol to higher than 246°C - although firework sparks are much hotter than that, they cool too fast when they hit the fuel so it doesn't ignite.

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Bet yeh daren't put that to the test?:D:D

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I'm glad I didn't prove him wrong, though I somehow suspect had it been fizzing, the fumes in the tank would I imagine, have ignited.

Also, so far as a fag...

I had a friend badly burned when he was foolishly cleaning motorcycle parts in petrol whilst smoking, petrol not ignited by a cigarette? I wouldn't bet on it.

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I never did anything really dangerous when I was a kid. I was more scared of my mum finding out than actually hurting myself. Thanks to my mothers constant words; I am literally useless at climbing.

Mum took me to the library and drummed into me the dangers of climbing buildings. She showed me an article about her brother. Climbing on a roof, he fell through and died.

My sisters and my friends never cared for such warnings. Some of the things I remember them doing.

They used to walk through the tunnel under the asda. They coaxed me to go with them but I wouldn't. I used to make my way to the point in Pic1 and wait for them to emerge.

Pic2 They used to Climb the inside of the viaduct and sit on these stones. Sometimes they would walk across the viaduct, never knowing if a train was going to come or not! I was always told I was not allowed to go anywhere near train tracks so I didn't. I didn't play with firefoworks. ETC.

As for playing with flammable liquids. A friend of mine told his mum and everybody else that he was attacked by someone and they sprayed his face with something. Years later he told me that him and a friend was playing with something flammable and it blew up in his face. He was burnt pretty bad.

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I can't say I ever came close to killing myself, but I came close to killing a couple of my brothers...but this was outweighed by the fact that saved the lives of two of them......it was the two I had earlier (inadvertently) tried to kill.

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Well I never came close to killing myself, but my mother did on numerous occasions:D:D:D

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Had you been my child I would have only needed one try at killing myself!


http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/i...ies/behead.gif:D

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Just imagine what a loss you'd have been to Accyweb:D

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No chance :)
But I was sure I'd seen that the way petrol gets ignited in films (cigarettes and bullets) is a load of rubbish- and a quick google brought this up as the first hit:
Petrol lit with a cigarette? Only in the movies | Film | The Guardian
Apparently, firing tracer bullets (which have burning phosphor on them) through fuel tanks won't ignite the petrol either.


It needs to be a fuel/air mix. Unless you're trying really hard to get a mix, there won't be enough vapour in a full petrol tank or air in an empty tank to allow combustion. If you have a pool of petrol exposed for long enough, you'll get a mix. My dad was once trying to destroy a cherry tree stump, so he piled the branches around it and poured loads of petrol on it. Went back into the house because he'd forgotten the matches, and then started throwing lit matches at the bonfire. They'd gone out by the time they left his hand, so he dipped the end of a branch in petrol and lit it, then put the burning stick into the bonfire. The whole thing exploded with a boom, but only a few of the petrol-soaked branches and the tree stump itself actually lit on fire.

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Many weekends in my childhood were spent at a farm in Ingleton.

I was playing on stacked hay bales in the barn. They weren't wrapped in black plastic in those days. I didn't see the narrow air gap which had been left between stacks and slipped down it. I recall the stacks were about 4 times my height. I shouted for help but no-one heard. I suppose my cries were muffled by the bales.

After several attempts I managed to climb out. I could have pulled bales onto me and suffocated.

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I don't think I've ever come close to accidently killing myself? Hurt myself yeh... But have some other person - somebody once had an illegal shotgun. I picked it up and asked him if it was loaded - he said no! I pointed it at him playing around and then moved it quick aimed at the ground and pulled the trigger - it went off in my hand. So if I had pulled it in his face - I dread to think.

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Playing on stacked hay bales Margaret, nudge nudge wink wink:D:D

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Being as I was aged 5 at the time, I find your comment offensive.

PS if you feel the need to apologize you will have to do so publicly because you will find that you are unable to PM me nor leave visitor messages.

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Somehow I could understand you finding it offensive had you mentioned your age at the time,

As it is I consider you to be some sort of perv' that would rather blame someone else.
:mad:

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The thread title specifies childhood, and if I wasn't alone my calls for help would have been heard.

Jaysay uses innuendo inappropriately and offensively.

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Can we have some more details please! :D

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I remember we used to climb on Peel Park School roof and throw lumps of earth at each other and someone chucked a stone and hit me on the head and I nearly fell off! I've still got the scar!

Also rope swings off trees in Ardenhall, over that slope. I slipped off the rope and fell to ground that knocked the wind out of me and I thought I was gonna die! :rolleyes:

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Can you not do anything right?

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Will knocked down by a double decker bus opposite clock garage on Whalley Rd, n knocked up in the air wi a sports car on Broadway suffice.:D

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Why are the Evil lucky?

I've had a pure life, why couldn't I have been knocked over and survived?
;)

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[quote=Studio25;1021129]No chance :)
But I was sure I'd seen that the way petrol gets ignited in films (cigarettes and bullets) is a load of b*ll*cks - and a quick google brought this up as the first hit:
Petrol lit with a cigarette? Only in the movies | Film | The Guardian
Apparently, firing tracer bullets (which have burning phosphor on them) through fuel tanks won't ignite the petrol either.

During my time in the Fire Brigade we had many instances of people thinking things won't burn or explode, especially messing with empty oil & petrol containers, most of them lived to tell the tale.
As for tracer ammo they do not contain phosphurus, during WW2 there were 3 different types of tracer, 2 of them were for aircraft use only, the tips were coloured blue for daytime use & grey for nightime. The army tracer had red bullet tips. Some R.A.F. ammo belts had an incendiary round 1 in 10, they did contain phospherous, but designed in such a way that the phosporous in the bullet could only be activated on firing.
If a fuel tank has already been punctured by a ball or armour piercing round and along comes a couple of tracer, what do you think is going to happen, why did Bomber command loose so many aircraft going down in flames, what else could it be.

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Explains a lot.

Copied and pasted for the next time you disagree with one of my posts ;)

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What you mean he's got brain damage? :p;)

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Nope..was referring to the fact that he thought Keegan talked crap

Green Cross Code - Kevin Keegan - YouTube

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Dunno - I suppose there aren't any other dangerous, explosive substances on a warplane... ;)

Seriously - I'm only going off the research of others. I've never fired a bullet into a fuel tank or flicked a cigarette onto a trail of fuel.

My wife's brother-in-law (from her first marriage) tried to stop the fan inside a klaxon using just a finger. Not exactly close to killing himself, but that finger's half as long as the one on the other hand... :rolleyes:

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When we could buy/find/steal a proper bow and an arrow with a proper tip on it the 1st thing we would do is fire it into the air then see if we could see it coming back at us??????? :D:D:D

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Once I was nearly killed by a demented ferret! :rolleyes:

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Some funny stories on this thread!

I was pretty reckless as a kid, always up trees and climbing about on rocks but I was sure-footed.

Lol-yes this!

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been very close a couple of times on my motorbike.... at uni ( ~ 1987 ) after dropping a friend off at RAF Valley, coming back over Britannia bridge at 2am I was lent over and sweeping across the whole of the dual carriageway when the back wheel clipped a cats eye and went completely sideways, I kicked down at the road( bye bye trainer... last time I rode when not wearing boots) to push the bike upright and was effectively "speedway" riding at somewhere north of 120mph . When I manged to pull over I couldn't stand up for nearly an hour and just sat shaking at the side of the road. another was heading out by Ribblehead/Hawes etc. suffice to say I was doing wrong side of a large number and was 2 foot above the road wondering how the heck I was going to land the thing... the bikes natural desire to stabilise after a significant wobble got me away with just a very rapid heartbeat...

I had my big motorcycle accident whilst stationary, crushing L1 vert when I was rammed from behind... I am lucky to be walking according to the docs. the crushed bone went outwards rather than inwards and damaging the spinal column.

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I think one kid on our street DID die. We had been building rafts on the factory lodge - he went back there on his own and was drowned - I think he had an epileptic fit. Older brother of my friend Gordon Russell, but I forget his first name.

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That road from Hawes to Ingleton is fantastic for take offs :D

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Rope swings!!! What was the highest swing you went on not thinking what would happen if you fell? Used to be one down the Clough that was about 20ft above the water, saw a guy come off that one and broke an arm and ribs!!!

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Over the stage at Accy Hippodrome.

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There was a kid had an epileptic fit fishing in the big lodge on what is Ozzy Nature reserve when I was a lad Dave, he died, but can't remember his name he was about 13 or 14 at the time, I know my old lady banned me from going near the lodges for a while because of it

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I actually died trying to put the roof back on Stone Henge, I've led a very careful life since then!

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You obviously didn't use enough Polyfilla! :(

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Or he was stoned at the time:rolleyes: okay I'll get mi coat:D

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Too much Polyfilla!

I was underneath admiring how smooth the surface was when because of the weight, cracks started to appear, it's similar to another tale, Don't believe the story of the boy and the dyke, putting your fingers in a dykes crack will only lead to the World falling in on you.
:o

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How long have you been waiting for an opportunity to use that joke? Or did the crack occur to you just now? ;)

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Ask him how long it took him to build the pyramids, he's been stoned ever since.:hidewall:

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Got to admit, it was a monumental task!

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Not to mention the outrageous lecture you'll get from her girlfriend about how blokes are only after the one thing ............... :idunno:

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Couple of times. Once when I ran out in front of a van by the Load after watching Superman at (that Cinema up by the Load????) ... had my mac on cape style ... you know, top button done up around your neck. Probably my super powers saved me:rolleyes: Another time when I fell off my dad's bike in front of another van ... bike was a little big for me. I should have stolen a smaller one:D And climbing up the inside of the old factory chimbly at the paint works on Rishton Rd. Getting chased and nearly caught by one of Basil Brierly's homicidal pigs. And that rope swing, out over the Stink at the bottom of Swales's pasture ... I think that being immersed in the Stink would have done a number on anyone:D

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Forgot to mention my first big haul on a Capstan Full Strength, by the bog in Mercer Park, near the tennis courts ... I gagged and coughed so bloody hard that conkers fell out of that beautiful big oak tree:D

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What you just said Eric, takes me back, about Mercer park, & the Cinema was the Star then the Carlton.

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Eric...they always say if your bound to be hanged you need not fear the shot(meaning you will die in the way the fate has intended for you - but then I guess you don't believe in that stuff) You will probably live to be a hundred.

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i'll join that club jaysay .. :D:D:D chucking a nori brick thro the kitchen window and just missing mothers head .... sliding down the shales in a new pair of jeans on a sack nicked from the cornmill and sliding off the sack halfway down ... ruining the jeans they couldnt even be patched up .. id took the whole backside out ... :D:D:D

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just saw someone reading this owd thread and remembered came close as a kid walking on the owd hippodrome roof in winter time, was very slippy, one lad fell and was killed was a good lad younger than me, lived on Blackburn Rd that particular night i was rough as rats and mam kept me in,we always had good fun in the hippodrome but after that happened i never went in again,:(

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nearly got run over by a trolley bus as a kid. was so close it actually hit my cricket bat which was only inches infront of my leg. got a right old bollocking from the driver and a clout from my old man. it worked a treat as i was always more careful than my mates crossing roads after this. in todays mamby pamby world i could have had a month off school with mental health issues and my parents could have sued the corporation for at least a new cricket bat and free travel for a year.

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[QUOTE=cashman;1255979]just saw someone reading this owd thread and remembered came close as a kid walking on the owd hippodrome roof in winter time, was very slippy, one lad fell and was killed was a good lad younger than me, lived on Blackburn Rd that particular night i was rough as rats and mam kept me in,we always had good fun in the hippodrome but after that happened i never went in again,

Cashy, am i right in thinking that the (owd Ippodrome) was turned into the accy bus garage on ellison Street?

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[QUOTE=taddy;1256033]not sure taddy think the depot was just below the hippodrome?

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Leaving it as late as you could to jump off the back of the bus as it pulled away from the traffic lights at the end of Queens Road leaving everybody else to walk back up the hill from the bus stop outside the hospital.

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[QUOTE=cashman;1256045][QUOTE=taddy;1256033]not sure taddy think the depot was just below the hippodrome?

To be honest I do not remember the Hippodrome, I know that I am getting old but not old enough to remember where it was but I seem to remember being told that it may have been on Ellisons tenement where the fair used to be held every year, As you say, Lower down than the bus depot. maybe Atarah can help on this ?

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one side of the hippodrome was on ellisons tenement taddy, the entrance door was on the steet think its ellison st? but above the bus depot.we used to get into it by a little gap on the back virtually on the tenement. i can now recall the poor lads name that fell off the roof was called David Masterson who lived on Blackburn Rd,

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Thanks for that Cashy.

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I suppose that we took risks when we were children too...running along the railway track behind Highams factory...asking the fireman to 'chuck us a cob of coal'...which they frequently did.
Walking along this embankment looking for coal that had fallen from trains.....we did this too.
It was not so dangerous..or that is what we told ourselves.....trains leaving Accrington or going into Accrington station had slowed down to a walking pace at that point.

Though the transport police who copped us one time would not agree.
He took us home...and Ma gave us a telling off.
Not for being near the line, but for getting caught...!

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Living in the country we took lots of risks which we didn’t consider risk-worthy at the time, just fun! Thunder and lightning gave us a chance to show how brave (and stupid!) we were as we dared each other to stand under the tallest tree in the woods when lightning was about to strike. We jumped across brooks until we fell in, we went through the fields where there was a sign ‘beware of the bull’ because wasn’t the bull always connected by nose ring and chain to the ground – well we hoped it was.

We walked along railway tracks because that was the shortest way from one place to another – but thankfully no-one took up the dare to lie between the train tracks when a train did pass us by to see if it really was safe to do so although we did talk about it, we played in the river where dead animals were thrown in higher up, and yes – we climbed trees.

So to change the wording of the question slightly and answer ‘WHEN did we come close to killing ourselves as kids?’ – most school-free days…..

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Sniffing glue was very dangerous thing to do but so was going to school.

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Did you actually learn anything?

Who was more dangerous, you and glue or glue or school. I think it's just you. You are the most dangerous entity in your life.

Go back to bed.

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Not long ago you where complaining about the site being dead and claimed it was my fault, then you wanted that thread closed, (probably because it’s an embarrassment to you), now, one of our long-standing idiots posts (his usual crape).
Did you welcome him back for keeping the site alive?
No, you basically told him to go away (go back to bed).
Yes, he is an arse, but even he IS keeping the site alive.

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You are right, Less, just about any post is better than no posting. Whether others agree with the poster or not, if it is a subject that warrants discussion then bring it on. Subjects that stir us up make entertaining reading and encourage responses. Make us think. Instead of telling people to go back to bed we should be encouraging them to do some posting, start new threads.

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As for glue sniffing, well if a person wants to risk brain damage (though in my opinion their brains must be a bit damaged to even contemplate doing this) and other associated health problems, then so be it. They make that choice. I remember seeing the results of this dangerous practice years ago when it seemed to be more prevalent, and doped-up, bleary-eyed, young people were ‘attached’ to their plastic bag.. Not a pretty sight.

Now I suppose there will be comments about problems caused by other excesses that people choose to indulge in….to each his (or her) own.

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I told you years ago, you would alienate most people from coming on here. I was right.

You seem to be okay with his references to drug taking.

I'm not embarrassed, the thread should have closed. It served its purpose. I found out what I needed to know. Going back...

I didn't welcome him, and that's my choice too who I engage with.

You used to be one of the people who always used to shout out about kids being able to access the site.

Kids don't sniff gas or glue. They're all on bud and crack,cocaine and heroin. It's not 1980.

Go on twist it as per. Maybe you should try getting more people to return to the forum, and stop trying to be garinda.

Nite nite, you can have your response.:rolleyes:

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Thought they were called "Teenagers"? :D

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Odders, you are right…the post did achieve its goal.
While it did that, it also seemed to stir up some much needed interest in the forum and a few more people took to contributing to threads.(thank you for that).

There have always been some fractious relations between some members….and it is like adding pepper to the soup.
For some people it is too much, it for others it gives a bit of interest.

I know back then my nemesis was Jambutty……if I said it was day, he would contradict me.
These differences are to be expected and it would be a very boring place if we all agreed on a point of view.
We are each able, through the forum,to express an opinion.
Mine is mine and I do not require anyone to subscribe to it…..yours is yours and you are entitled to hold it….both of us are entitled to disagree and maybe even say why that is the case.
In the end, we have to respect the views of other posters….and play nicely or the grown ups will make us stand on the ‘naughty step’(oh yes and the step is innocent,it is we who are naughty).

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Getting back to the original question, as mentioned in a previous topic, I went fishing in the then Higham’s Pond in Priestly clough without being able to swim and of course as it must happen, I fell into the pond. Luckily enough someone (Derick Briggs) saved me using his raincoat belt, and carried me home to Belfield Rd. Needles to say, I learned to swim straight after this event.
On other occasions we were always climbing up the highest trees to see who could get farthest up, without thinking of the danger involved!
Cheers

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well if you think that you are entitled too but i think you have a slate loose,

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A couple of the things I did were quite ‘shocking’ and I’m probably fortunate I am still here to tell the tale. The first one occurred when I was about 14. My sister had a hairdressing business and was giving me a perm. This was in the days when dryers were huge and heads almost disappeared up them. My sister put the machine over my head, turned it on, and went off to do something else. I got bored and I could see through the mirror that on one side of the contraption were the switches to turn it off and on, hotter or colder, but on the other side the corresponding area had nothing but an open space and I wondered what was up there. What did I do? I told you I was bored - well I stuck my hand up into the space….I got a big shock in more ways than one to discover that there was a heck-of-a-lot of electricity going through that area and I sort of intercepted it. It went into my hand, up my arm. So much so that it is a wonder my hair didn’t stand straight up. Remember also that my hair was still damp and if I recall it rightly the curlers used then were metal…..did I tell my sister - no, I didn’t tell anyone and thankfully my hand soon felt normal again. Kept it out of unknown spaces after that.

The second time I was shocked was when I was using an electric toaster and some crumbs had caught on the element and had started to burn. Without thinking, I knocked them off the still switched-on toaster with the knife I was holding……and was thrown backwards when the knife and the element connected. Can I blame being young for this stupidity - no, I was about 40 by then. Some people just never learn…

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Oh Dorothy…I know I should not have laughed….but I have to admit…I did…..at both of your close calls.
As you know I have a very pictorial imagination….so I saw it all in my imagination…..you should have seen your face!

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i will admit ... i took two drug overdoses .. one when i was 6 thats according to my medical records .. i cant remember that .. the other was when i was 10 and on holiday with my parents .. both with phenobarbitone tablets .. the one when i was 10 i took a whole weeks tablets .. and doctor was out to see my granny and mum said can you look at jen she doesnt seem right .. when i admitted what id done .. doc said you have to keep her awake for 24 hours .. if she does fall asleep take her straight to the hospital and tell them what shes done. she will have to have her stomach pumped and the tubes down her nose and mouth etc .. scared the living daylights out of me!!! When we came back off holiday mum took me to the doctor and told him what i'd done .. and he said well she hasnt had a fit for 5 years .. and took me off them. So one good thing about it .. ok 5 years later i was back on them .. but i did get some tablet free years ..

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Which slate? The one you liked, or the better not moved. It rains in when it wants tôo whatever?

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Rope swings...

Well you had trees over woodnook water, all the way up Bash. Priestley clough was the best for a ropey over the other side

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the tree where we had our rope swings over the brook at rising bridge 40 years ago is still standing and as you can see there is a bit of rope still hanging from it!!!!! :p

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if i like a comment i always say so no matter who it is i just say what i think simple as .

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Yes, we had fun with those too……and we were frequently to be found by the Highams lodge.
Yes it had railings round it but there was one rail the used to slide out…making a good opening for us skinny kids….in summer we dipped home made nets in the water….don’t remember catching anything other than frogspawn from the lodge.
In winter it froze over……she skated on the shallow bit.
Well, except our Mick….he skated on the deep bit and went through the ice.
I pulled him out using a fallen branch.
He was blue and shivering when we ran the short distance home(Riley’s Hill)…..but Ma warmed his hide very nicely…..and we were sent to bed without tea.
That is how it was back then.