How old were you when you went to school by yourself, and what year?

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I was seven (1988.) I was also coming home to an empty house. I think it was a bit young even then.

First year of primary. So I was 4 or 5. Nobody saw us across any roads though there was a lollipop lady near school. But the other roads I crossed on my own. Late 70s.

My mum in the 1940s started school at 3yo because of the war and had to get 2 buses across Nottingham with her older sister who would have been 6yo.

I was 8, in 1968. I had two little estate roads to cross. But the first week a big boy from the high school exposed himself to me. I never told my mum and dad.

I think I was in year 4 .
9 years old . I lived a 7 min walk away .
I'm still in the same place and no matter what I won't let my kids walk alone to school

Last year of primary school so I was 10/11. That was in 2000/2001

Early 90’s I was 8/9, mum at home waiting though

11, in 1994. Either 2 public buses or one bus and a walk through an unpleasant part of town... I hated it either way!
DS1 started going to and from school independently at 10, DS2 is nearly 9 and has recently been going alone (3 minute walk-I should have done it sooner!)

Catscat not even at 11+? why? Has the traffic got so much worse?

First year of high school, so 2000.

Age 8, late 70s. 3 stops on the tube with 1 change, and then I had to cross a really busy road.

I was 7, in 1976. I was the last one in my class by about a year as well!
My kids also started walking alone at 7 but we live in the 1970s in Germany.

I was 5, had a main road to cross but there was a lollipop man in the morning and after school. Also i don't recall much traffic at all, it was 1974. I also used to come home by myself for lunch a couple of times a week.

Five years old, but I went with the boy next door. Not very far. His mother followed us for a few days. I think we were collected in the afternoon, but I really only remember the bomb sites.

11 in 2002, first year secondary school.

Year 5; caught the school bus. Year 6 I would walk

1980s - Can't recall to be honest. But I'd have always been with an older sister till about 10 (I'm the youngest). I don't recall going to school but I do remember walking home on my own, from about 7, never with a sister! I do remember my grandparents when they stayed with us, used to met me occasionally at the school gates. It made me so happy to see them there!!

What's weird is now I think if it is the times my mum dropped us off or picked us up she had the car. School was only round the corner and up the road!! Bit odd. Maybe we were going somewhere.

Walked 1 mile from when I started school at 5. Lots of steep hills so took half an hour. Walked with my brother until my best friend started 6 months later then walked with her. Remember my parents teaching me the best place to cross the road (was a blind bend). That was 1980.

Walking alone 7 (year 3) everyone did at juniors. Lots keys hanging around their necks, I didn't because I had little siblings

5, it was the 70s and we lived only a 5 minute walk away. Used to go home for lunch too. There was always someone in as when my mum went back to work, my grandparents came over. I only got a key when I was about 11 and by that point I could cook etc for myself if need be.

From my second day, mum would walk me to the bus stop.

Just before I was 7 we moved to a new house and I walked, but we were on a new housing estate and there was an old footpath so the developer rerouted it which meant there was a safe walk to school and I don't remember any one arriving not on foot.

Mum got a part time job then so I would come home to an empty house and peel potatoes for tea.

Not until secondary school in the early noughties.

6 in 1959, walked a mile across fields to school. My mother crossing me over the main road outside our house and I would have to wait on the pavement opposite our house until she came out to cross back over.

I was eleven. That would have been in 2000.

Age 5 in 1975. Walked with the boy who lived nextdoor who was the same age as me. Only a 5 min walk.

I was also sent to the shops on a Sunday morning to buy a paper and cigarettes for my dad. That was a 10 min walk.