We didn't have a tv so didn't get the ITV rule. I'd always assumed it was for financial reasons but my dad later insisted it was a conscious decision taken "because it causes arguments". We watched stuff on holidays or at granny's. One thing I do remember thinking bonkers was when we went to my aunt's for either Christmas or Boxing Day tea and I was censured for watching what was playing on the television (Moonraker, iirc) instead of Being Sociable.
H (b67) says he didn't have a rule, as such, but they watched BBC by default and weren't really aware of what was on ITV.
We weren't allowed to go on the big wheel. I mean, we weren't allowed to go to the fair anyway - it was in the neighbouring village, which was kind of a pit village and a bit rougher than ours, and I think it was felt we'd be taking our lives in our hands - but even on the rare trips to amusement parks the ferris wheel - and only the ferris wheel - was Totally Out Of Bounds.
I think there must have been a publicised incident when my dad was of an impressionable age, because that is properly bonkers.
We didn't have roller skates, either.
My friend from almost next door wasn't allowed to spend her own money. Well, that's too bald a statement. Presumably the actual facts were that they were supposed to save a proportion of their pocket money rather than squandering it all in the newsagent's, and presumably it was supposed to teach them good habits. I didn't get pocket money at all till I was at secondary school so when I did have cash in my piggy bank it was a bit special and if I wanted a blow-out on sweets that was entirely up to me. Still think they'd have done better to have opened Post Office accounts for them and maybe taken some in every month.
Most of our rules were financial-based - if black clothes had ever appeared in the handed-on bag I'm sure we'd have worn them. We definitely had red ones - or the Hideous Warning type (I recognise curdling in your tummy, getting piles or chilblains off the radiator, apple trees growing inside you though none of us ever thought anyone actually believed that one).
We were aware that certain things were common, but unless they were rude or likely to be dangerous (eg the fair) that didn't necessarily put them out of bounds for us. In fact, one of the things I remember about my grandmother was a bit of a private joke where she would say of some act or other "common as muck!" and chortle.
Nearly all the arbitrary restrictions placed upon us were, ultimately, about sex (The Not Having Of). No pierced ears, make-up heeled shoes and short skirts hugely frowned upon - though if you did manage to get hold of them nobody would forbid it - no public discos or evenings out without a formal event. Every time the word "boyfriend" was mentioned my mother would say "before sixteen is far too young" in a tone that brooked no discussion. (I think she was probably right, but I also think she had no idea what Having A Boyfriend entailed among my thirteen-year-olds circle and wouldn't have minded what I actually wanted.)
When I was older I discovered that one of my mother's siblings and all of my father's four siblings got married because of a pregnancy - and every one of those marriages ended in divorce, at least one highly acrimoniously. I kind of understand my dad a bit better now 