My mum, who would have been 100 this month, used to tell how she and her three siblings (aged 5 to 10) were always late for school. They lived in an isolated area and she said, 'Our school kept the register open because we walked three miles to get there and the teacher thought it was the distance that delayed us.' In fact, the truth was that halfway between home and school the children passed the 300 ft deep open shaft of a disused tin mine (this is in Cornwall) and they would lie on their fronts around the edge of it and drop stones in to see if they could hear the stones hit the far depths. Today all the shafts are capped but I often think of what a dangerous walk that was for my mum! Have you any hairy stories your parents told?
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