Splash !!!

I had no fear as a child.  I didn't realise the dangers of the river.  We now see images of kids jumping in rivers and either getting sucked under with the current or just getting off lightly (as opposed to dying) with a few broken limbs or nasty cuts.  The picture below is of the river in the town where I live now.  It pretty much stretches all through the town and you can get to different parts of it at various points within the town.  The part of the river in the picture is now full of old shopping trollies and other very dangerous bits of metal.  I guess it was just as full with rubbish when I was a kid.  Large holiday boats also travel down this stretch of the river as the river pretty much stretches quite a way through the county.  That means that most of the river is full of shit too.  People on a boating holiday have toilets installed in the boats.  They don't save it and take it home !!!

Cars used to travel over this bridge years ago.  See the part between the arches on the right hand side of the picture ?  Yeah ?  We used to wait for the cars to go over the bridge, then stand right on the top, balance as best we could, wait for the boats to pass then leap into the water.  We had to make sure as we jumped that we missed the wall completely and that we jumped further enough out to miss the brickwork construction on the bottom of the building as it entered the water.  I think I was about 10 years old at this point.  No fear !