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Most dangerous or disturbing baby or childhood photos of yourself. It was a different time!

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KnopkaPixie · 15/11/2024 21:56

I can't upload it because my mum has it but there is a picture of me at about seven months old sitting up in an enormous Silver Cross pram on the edge of the cliffs in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Ricky, the family German Shepherd is tied to the handle by his lead. There does not seem to be any brake applied to the pram wheels.

This delightful image was taken from some distance away. To be fair, it was taken a full six months before the landslip and my parents were very busy running the King's Bay Cliff Edge Hôtel.

I think they were trying to train me and Ricky to pull our weight in the family business by mushing, Canadian husky and sled style into the Undercliff to bank cheques and pay the butcher.

There's loads of others including close proximity to bonfires, fireworks, plenty of untethered horses.

Falconry for five year olds. Me grinning demonically at an owl sat on my arm.

As you can see I turned out fine. What's your's?

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BabstheBounder · 16/11/2024 11:03

I have photos of my then 19 month old sitting with her legs dangling out the window and holding on to the bars of Puffing Billy. A steam train that travels a rickety wooden railway (including steep inclines and declines and along narrow barrier less bridges over high drops) near Melbourne.

DH insisted all was fine and he had a fair grip of her tshirt and vest.

In hindsight, I should have been a lot more insistent on him not demonstrating such stellar judgements... all was fine though. Nobody died and DH agreed after a lengthy argument that he was a bit more hung ho than he should have been.

Otherwise, my parents have the standard 1980s holiday photos of me and my sibling burnt to a crisp once the factor 8 Ambre Solair wore off.

TaraRhu · 16/11/2024 11:39

Old polo with 3 kids in the back and two in the boot. No seatbelts all round!

Compash · 16/11/2024 13:20

Our neighbour driving a Mahoosive Ferguson (sic) tractor with all the neighbourhood kids hanging gaily off it...

But it's nothing to some of these... I'm getting an image of that german shepherd chasing a seagull and turning the pram over... 🙈

bakewellbride · 16/11/2024 14:30

I don't have a photo of it but did anyone ever go to mr blobby land in the 90s? One of the rides was a trailer ride around a field that had near vertical drops. There were no seat belts just a thin metal rail to cling on to. I must've been about 6, still remember being terrified now!

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