Children on Canal Boats

[Ray T]

 

Exactly what II thought. Potentially burned hand on the chimmney (although I did that mowing at the cricket club when I used the exhaust on the Massey to pull myself out of the tractor seat ). Drowning hazard, no life-jackets. Weil's disease. Toes chopped off by prop. The list is almost infinite.

 

This picture:

 

 

Is from a 1960's book. No Elfin Safety then. Some how the human race still carries on.

 

I some times think today's society lacks the freedom of just "doing things" without risk assessments, H & S etc.......

[David Mack]

 

This picture:

 

 

Is from a 1960's book.

Looking at the length of the boys' hair I would have thought more likely 1970s.

[Ray T]

David, we're both wrong, it is 1980, just.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/I-Spy-Annual-1980/dp/0850960932/ref=sr_1_18?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407754174&sr=1-18&keywords=I+spy+annual

Edited August 11, 2014 by Ray T

[gazza]

 

Thanks for the info, I have ordered that as well, I have twin boys who will have their 16th birthday on the third day of our holiday, I asked them today if they had ever had an I-Spy book and they had never even heard of them. I haven't seen one in years but had loads of them when I was their age, some of which I managed to fill enough to send off and get an embossed stamp from Big Chief I-Spy in the back.

Late to this I know...

 

surely this has to be a wind up?

 

At 16 I had a moped, was smoking, had discovered girls and worked out which pubs would serve us.

I had also started my apprenticeship and was paying my way at home.

 

Kids today etc..... :-(

[b0atman]

Joshua Jones now that was good TV and a brilliant song .