General Chat

Two cans on a string used as a 'telephone'...strung across the road or next door...

Cowboys and indians! ...... and practicing in the woods with home made bows and arrows, catapults and slings ( at old tin cans )..... I always thought the boys had so much more fun than us girlies playing with dolls.......You can tell I was a Tomboy lol

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Yes Linda and our old dog used to chase it and knock it over.... can hear my self crying now...Mammie call Glen he's spoiling oor game

Lovely thread!

I remember playing elastics, knucklebones,marbles, conkers and we used to make 'stilts' from old cans with string attached and then walk on them!

Thoses were the days....rolling around in the grass after it had just been mown, not a care in the world!

can you remeber having a bike tyre and a stick and bowling it along

Can remember my mum making a pan of chips and putting them in paper for all the kids lol

Linda xx

I don't even remember my Mum having a lock on her door....some chance now days.

yeh howie...it felt like real community in those days didnt it..everyone used to help each other out...even people you didnt know!

I remember that too howie,I even had the cheek to ask for a bowl of water for my dog lol

Barnardoes are doing some kind of courses on street games to try and encourage people to get involved and share their memories of these games with todays youngsters.
mind you ,with all the new health and safety rules I'll be amazed if they are allowed to do anything.

we played skipping games
2 baller
tiggy on high ,
rounders
hide and seek
charlie,charlie cannot get over the water
and queenie,queenie whos got the ball
and we made stilts out of tin cans and string
Hopscotch
plus loads of hand clapping/song games etc

Bunny xx

Mo jo remeber when we walked miles and would knock on some ones door and ask for a drink of water mostly we got pop instead xxxx

we used to walk for miles without a care in the world and we'd be out all day until 10/11pm...during the holidays! We were never in any danger in those days though, its such a shame that kids dont get to experience this.

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We use to go to the scrap yard for bits of bikes and the boys would build them dangerous contraptions but great fun.

We used to make stilts, bikes, go carts ....... well the boys did, for us girlies. Then there was Five-stones or many ball games in the streets.

I cant believe the bikes that get thrown away these days. Even the second hand places have piles of them going rusty. My brother made me one from bits and pieces of old bikes. It had a fixed wheel but I was in heaven riding it around the quiet roads.

Did anyone go comic swapping?, when we got a pile of comics and had read them umpteen times, we used to knock on the neighbours doors and ask if they had any to swap.

My daughters television broke last week and she tells me the children have started to use their imaginations to make up games and read more. She has decided to put off getting a new one for a while as they have been having so much more fun as a family.


Susan
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Yes Linda and I remember all the Mums playing as well at the skipping,

potato guns...

Jacks,bounce a ball and see how many you could pick up.....I think....

Elastics! ........Knucklebones!...........What's the time Mr Wolf!............Bows and arrows (home-made from willow branches and string)............And of course......Doctors and nurses (with mum's first aid kit).


Deb:))))

Yes can remember having a big skipping rope across the road and 2-3 jumping in and when the car came you put it on the road for the car to run over lol if you saw your grandkids doing it now we would go mad lol

two ball on the walls top and whip where you chalked the tops different colours....the hoola hoop lol

Linda

hopscotch....we called its beds where i came from funny different names all over.

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