It's mostly the point of the thread.... All the same horrible things or worse occurred in 'The Good Old Days' only we were shielded from the worst of it because we didn't have social media in our faces from the moment we opened our eyes.. Health & Safety was non existent, medicine was not as advanced, war and murder was still going on around the world but we were oblivious to most of it so we saw ye olden days as mostly a positive adventure in our youth... I mean this was the kind of headline news we were getting...
On the plus side, we learnt through our own mistakes and most people had a lot more common sense growing up and a lot of the better things from the past are sadly missing like getting my 3 shillings pay at the end of the month for completing 42 chimneys... Used to look forward to that... money well earned