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Chris in 1066Land
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Hi
More extracts from me mams memoirs (now aged 83)
Village of Sutton Bonington in Nottinghamshire
Some of the Games we played at School were Skipping, snobs, hopscotch, rounders, Tennis, Hockey, In the Girls playground there was a hole in the wall near the roof, and we used to try and get tennis balls in this hole.
I used to wear Black Knee High Boots that buttoned at the sides with about 12 or 15 buttons that I had to fasten with a Bone Handled Button Hook which I still have to this day.
In the school holidays we used to go up Hungary Lane with me mam picking Blackberries to make Home Made Blackberry Vinegar. (Like Ribena, but better)
There was a brook up Hungary Lane and a Wooden Footbridge where we used to play. We used to swing on the rails and hang upside down over the Brook, but nobody ever fell in.- we called it the Planks.
Sometimes I used to sit on the wall all day and take car numbers as they went past, on a good day I would get about 5 or 6. and on other days I used to play with an Iron Hoop on the Road. I had a bicycle and also taught my younger brother Eddie how to ride his bike on the main road.
There used to be night watchmen in those days when they were doing road repairs and we would sit by their fires keeping watch with them listening to their stories.
It was safe to walk the streets on your own.
We used to get 6d a week pocket money if mam and dad had got it to spare and it was usually spent like this. On a Sat we used to go to the Chip Shop which was at the side of Prickets Blacksmiths Shop and we could sit in the Chippy and eat them. Fish was 2d, Chips 1d and Peas 1d - that was 4d. Then we had 2d left which lasted all week as we could buy 1/4d (farthing) worth of sweets which included Gobstoppers and Aniseed Balls and Barley Sugar Twists. We could also buy our Whip and Tops from Aris's as they were only 1/2d or 1d.
I used to like jigsaw puzzles and would mix several puzzles together in one box then sort the pieces out when I wanted to do one.
Chris in 1066Land
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« Last Edit: Friday 10 September 04 12:31 UTC (UK) by Chris in 1066Land »
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Nettie
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As a Primary School Teacher I try to reintroduce a lot of the older games- in the playground we have played marbles, jacks, elastics, skipping, four square, downball, hopscotch etc, in the classroom I have introduced jigsaws, quizzes, card games, dominoes as well as many of the older language games of I Spy, Categories, 20 Questions, Mastermind, clapping chants (like Miss Mary Mac) tongue twisters and the like. It is amazing to watch the kids with these 'new' activities. They pick them up quickly and it's great to see them still interested and playing them years later. In this busy day and age, and with many from non-English speaking backgrounds, they have all the technological game equipment but not a board game or deck of cards at home. As the saying goes 'Everything old is new again.' 
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Researching: Cronin / Nolan - Gortadrislig, Kerry
Finn/Clifford - Callinafercy and Scort, Kerry
Spillane - Milltown
Also:- Byrne / Tyrrell - Dublin
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casliber
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marbles were in schools in Sydney's Northern beaches in hte 70s but not in my area (eastern suburbs) - I ended up with loads but no-one had them at my school 
British Bulldog and Bulrush and tips I remember.
'Sticks' was a good version of 'brandings'. 2 teams and a wall, a tennis ball and 4 small sticks about 8cm in length and, say, twice pencil thickness set up in the form of a cricket stumps. One team takes turns to throw at the 'sticks'. If one person hits them and is caught on the full, it is the other teams go. If not, the throwing team scatters adn tries to return to set up the sticks while the other team tries to brand them. The first team can hit the ball away with closed fists. The game ends with one team either all branded out or they manage to set up the 'sticks' and yell 'sticks'. (Sydney/70s-80s)
Cas
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Aberdeenshire: Nelson, Middleton, Dow, McLennan, Hendry
Ross & Cromarty: McLennan, Macaulay
Midlothian: Nelson, Lumsden
Berwickshire: Lumsden, Melrose
Stirlingshire: Dick
West Lothian/Lanark: Wark
West Yorkshire: Wormald, Cooper, Snowden, Sykes (all Drighlington/Adwalton), Thackeray (Tong)
Warwickshire: Payne (Coleshill/Solihull), Forshaw (Coleshill), Drakeford (Coleshill)
Somerset: Quartley
NZ: Thompson (Dunedin)
also Poland, Belarus, Romania
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Burrow Digger
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Last week I was watching my 4 year old son at his preschool playing "Whats the time Mr wolf". 
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dinie
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The big ship sailed on the 'Ally Ally O'. All the girls make a chain, one girl at the end stretches her arm to the wall and the rest have to pass through it whilst singing:
"The big ship sails on the ally ally O, The ally ally O, The ally ally O, On the last day of September".
I'm sure there must have been more to it as that sounds very boring, doesn't it?
Also the usual hopscotch, jacks, french skipping, clapping rhymes, skipping games with extra long ropes, dodge ball, cat's cradle
Dinie
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Census information is Crown Copyright - www.nationalarchives.gov.ukADAMS - Kent/Sussex, BROOKS - Buckinghamshire/Northamptonshire. GASCOYNE/GASKINS - Buckinghamshire/Northamptonshire. GOULD - Derbyshire/Lancashire. HILL - Hampshire/Kent/Lancashire/Limerick. MARK - Buckinghamshire/Cumberland/Lancashire. WILCOX - Buckinghamshire/Northamptonshire. WITTONBROOKES/WITTENBROKE - Northamptonshire/Buckinghamshire. YATES - Canada.
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ozlady
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"Please, Jack, may we cross the river?" "yes, but ony if you're wearing (name your colour)". Those wearing that colour then tried to get past Jack without being caught! We played rounders, kick the tin, tally, and my favourite, bat and katty.
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Watkins, Price Herefordshire Brannan, Price, GLAM Edwards, Gardner MON Clark(e) SOM Census information Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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MaryA
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I was just going to mention Kick the Can.
One of those games you played all in a row was Queenie-eye, Queenie-eye Who'se got the ball? I haven't got it, It isn't in my pocket, Queenie-eye, Queenie-eye Who'se got the ball?
Another thing to do with your mother's old stocking and a ball in the end of it was tie it around your ankle and swing it around and see how many times you could jump over it before you tripped and ended up with a bloody nose. 
The other sort of skipping with two ropes and somebody at each end one in each hand and turning them inwards, you had to hop to keep up with that one.
Mary
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1000xlch
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Hi all
If you are in UK in the Midlands then go to Sudbury Hall which is a National Trust site just off the A50 heading west just before Uttoxeter. It has a museum of childhood which has a lot of the games mentioned which you can try like the iron hoop and spin top, marbles etc. Worth a visit.
John Rowley
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DUNN - Cambuslang, LKS FORSYTH - Shotts, LKS FRAME - Hamilton, LKS HODGSON - Hamsterley, DUR HUMPHREY - Easingwold, NRY HUNT - Frimley, Surrey MCKECHNIE - Argyll - Shotts NETHERCLIFF(T)/ DRAYCOTT Sandhurst, BKS PEPPERCORN - Lolworth, Cambs PRATT - Thirsk, NYK REDSHAW - Hamsterley, DUR REYNOLDS - Fritton,Stratton,NFK ROWLEY - STS to DUR TALLACK - St Agnes Padstow,CON WALMSLEY - NRY,Brum WILSON - Hamsterley, Co Durham Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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