It would never be allowed today!

 I was looking through some old photographs and I found this one, taken over sixty years ago.  It shows Mother my sister and me, all at Stonehenge.  We'd never be allowed to do this today!

And I thought of so many things which were normal in my childhood which would never be allowed today.

After my first week at school aged four I used to walk there and back alone.  It would never be allowed today.

I never had a special child seat in a car and neither did my parents wear seatbelts.  (There weren't any.) I never wore a safety helmet when riding my bike.  It would never be allowed today.

Bayko

The air in cinemas and theatres was stale with tobacco smoke.  Children were often sent to the shops to buy cigarettes for their parents.  Children had sweet cigarettes.  It would never be allowed today.

We were sent out in the morning during the school holidays and told "Be home by tea time"  It would never be allowed today.  

One of my favourite toys as a child was "Bayko".  See those steel rods sticking up?  It would never be allowed today.

Come to that remember toys, cots, everything else, being painted with lead paint?  It would never be allowed today.

How did we survive?