Simon Mason wrote:
"Brimstone" wrote in message
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Simon Mason wrote:


The myth is that children played in the street in all areas. The only
areas where children would have played in the street would have been
in poorer areas where there were no cars, no public parks or
playgrounds and no "waste" ground.

Such areas don't exist now.

Apart from places like this.

http://www.sustrans.org.uk/webimages...ourhoods-2.jpg

http://www.camcycle.org.uk/cycling20...s/homezone.jpg

http://www.oldhamrochdalehmr.co.uk/devon2.jpg

None of which are in any way similar to those I described.