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Making bases for Star Wars toys etc out of old packaging and boxes.

Parents smoking cigarettes in the car. Even back then it was grim.

Dogs being fed leftovers as their main diet and being let out to wander around. Being told off / smacked by other people’s parents or the neighbours. Being threatened with the wooden spoon. Being sent to bed without dinner. Having the old black and white telly brought up to your bedroom when...

Wanting to be a cowboy

Putting crisp packets in the oven so they shrink down to a miniature packet. Spokey Dokeys.

You know what they say. If you can’t spot the weirdo in the woods, it’s you.

Worthing Dome. Under a fiver for young ‘uns. Less on weekdays.

Pubs being places for adults only. Dark, foreboding, smoke filled rooms that daylight barely reached and there wasn’t colouring book and crayons within a hundred miles.

Youths still break into abandoned buildings and get onto roofs etc . It’s quite a problem .

With my knees? No chance.

Having to watch whatever depressing crap your parents were watching on telly. Shops being closed on Sunday and on Wednesday afternoons. A good thing that should be brought back. Going and picking up the take-away rather than commanding an asian teenager on an unlicensed moped to bring it to...

I was 23 before I got my first mobile phone. Didn’t have internet at home until I was 30!!

A recent archaeological project dug up sections of playgrounds and playing fields across the U.K. Loads of Dinky cars, toy soldiers, marbles, top trumps cards etc in the layers up to about 2005. After that, barely anything .

I think after a certain age, kids rarely bother.

Lining your mates up against a wall and hoofing a ball at them.

Sitting in the same room playing video games together. Not online. Meeting your mates to hang out with minimal plans and no organisation further than “see you at the park tomorrow”. Then going home and not seeing/hearing from your mates until school on Monday . Not saying it wa better, just...

Going to the cinema with mates.