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Topic: Ludo, tiddley winks ... remember the old games ? (Read 2711 times)
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bennett
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Love all these replies,
some games I have never heard of,very interesting to read.
My indoor games,
were Ludo,and Snakes and Ladders,
when my brother and I played with our dear Granny,
we used to make her go down the ladders as well as the snakes 
Thats naughty I know, but we used to fall off the chair laughing, 
she soon cottoned on though. 
She taught me how to play rummy and whist.
Happy childhood memories.
I liked playing snap,that was so noisy.
When we were older, we used to read the dictionary,and read out the meanings,so you had to guess the word.
I was always good at spelling.
Bennett
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DRAKE...Plymouth.Devon LAKEY....Plymouth.Devon. WEEKES.Plymouth.Devon. MARTIN...Minehead.Somerset. WEBBER..Watchet/Williton Somerset STRONG...Minehead.Somerset. SMITH......Minehead.Somerset. HART........Leeds.Yorkshire. WEIR.......Ireland.Liverpool BROWN....Liverpool. WRIGHT...Liverpool Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Cas (stallc)
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Enjoyed reading this thread...
In my area, kick the can, would be kick a tin, mob all out...remember great fun as kids in different teams in a small cul de sac come council close 1960's
Gambo's had great fun with makeshift ones my nan made, oh what memories, loved my nan, bonfire night, guy fawkes...penny for the guy...
Jump the poles...who could get them all, depending on what age, and what height you were!
2 ball games...one, two three o leary...five six seven o leary...eight nine ten o leary catch 2 balls!
Then it would go on as above but you would have to go over, then under , then slamsies then under leg etc, depending on what time of day you would get told off by mam...
American skipping as we called it, elastic all knotted together...jump this way... that way... get tangled, great jump, twist and out...expertise Don't think I could now though...although....would like to try 
Mousetrap was another good un, but long winded to set up...
Cas
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Trees
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One card game I didn't enjoy was Lexicon never did get into that so ours is still in good shape. Does anyone remember Rail road You moved a train along a track you had to throw a dice and get a six to buy a piece of rail then move the train until you ran out of track and got another six there were all sorts of hazards along the way that was fun
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stoney
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...so many "trees" - what's a dog to do!
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One card game I didn't enjoy was Lexicon never did get into that so ours is still in good shape. Does anyone remember Rail road You moved a train along a track you had to throw a dice and get a six to buy a piece of rail then move the train until you ran out of track and got another six there were all sorts of hazards along the way that was fun
Hubby had this as a youngster - and lots of other boardgames, which we seem to have accquired as his parents were clearing out before downsizing.
Careers was (and is) a family favourite!
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Beattie, Beveridge, Carson, Davidson, Hounam, Johnston, Purdon, Rae, Stevenson, - Scotland. Brown, Bulman, Cooke, Harding, Meyers, Osborne, Routledge - England
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LizzieW
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Thank you Beverley and Cas for the words to the O'Leary rhyme.
We used to play another game but whether it had a name or not I don't know. We used to stand with our hands on the bicycle rack (no bikes in them most of us didn't have bikes) and someone would hold one of our legs out behind us, then we had to jump up and somehow put the spare leg over the top of the other one. What the point was I've no idea.
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- London(?Middx),Hull
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Hi Lizzie,
We used to sing "cobbler cobbler mend my Shoe(jump leg over) get it done by half past two( jump it back)
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LizzieW
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Trees, I think that's what I'm thinking about. Very strange game when you think about it. Would probably be banned now on health and safety grounds.
Lizzie
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BENSON- Dalton in Furness (Ulverston) and Hull
BETTISON - Derbys
BOULTON - Dalton-in-Furness and surrounding areas
BRAND - Lincs
COCKETT - Lincs, Yorks, Lancs
DA COSTA (or variants) - Spain or Portugal, London (Middx), ?Hull
GILCHRIST - Scotland, Lincs
HINGLEY - Derbys/Yorks
MANN - Sussex, Kent, Herts
MUMBY - Lincolnshire and Hull
PEMBERTON - Ches, Lancashire
ROBINSON - Lincs
WHITTAKER/WHITAKER - Ches/Lancs
WRIGHT- London(?Middx),Hull
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At my school, in the playground, there was a small flight of seven steps, so we invented a game called 'days of the week'. You started at the top step (which was Sunday) and the caller would call out 'Thursday' ... you then had to jump down four steps and land on 'Thursday' without toppling off. Going upwards was worse ... I remember I could do Saturday (bottom) up to Tuesday (five steps up) with a run at it, but one girl who ended up in the county athletics high jump team, could do Saturday all the way up to Sunday ...
Wouldn't be allowed nowadays ... H & S has ruined so many things that were fun !
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nanny jan
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My mother taught me her London version of O'Leary
One, two, three o'lairy
My ball's down the airey (the area in front of the basement )
Don't forget to give it to Mary (mum's name!)
Early in the morning.
We used washing line (bought at Woolies) to make skipping ropes and chalked hop scotch on the paving stones. Cheap and cheerful fun.....kept us happy for hours.
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Can you believe kids today, who have so much in the way of material things compared to what we had, when they say "I'm bored!!!"
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...so many "trees" - what's a dog to do!
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Can you believe kids today, who have so much in the way of material things compared to what we had, when they say "I'm bored!!!"
That's probably because they don't have to use their imagination or brains!
When you think about the games we played as kids it involved both of the above - not like today where most games require you to "plug it in" and "flick switches"!
And yet, even now on occasion, you might see small children playing with the box a gift arrived in, rather than it's contents!
We also had a lot more freedom in our youth - I remember being out the house from sun-up to sun-down. You couldn't do that nowadays - says a lot about our sick society!
I don't remember my Mum and Dad getting too stressed (or they didn't show it!) as long as I didn't go near traffic, water or talk to strangers. I also usually had the family dog with me - he'd have had the leg off anyone who came near!
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In the winter we used to take the lid off the metal grabage can and use the lid to slide down the hill (worked even better when the handle 'accidentally' came off). Everyone had these metal bins and sometimes they were better than sleds (like when the snow was getting a bit scarce in places).
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It was the version we played.
1 2 3 O'leary
4,5 6 O'leary
10 O'leary catch the ball.
we played dipping games, as well, lady, baby, gipsy,queen, elephant monkey tangerine. out spells OUT.
eeny meeny maceracka aero domino, alabama chew tobacco ping pong push. and who ever got push was OUT
Skipping we used to play a lot to various rhymes.
all very good exercise by the way.
used to play hopscotch, and rounders, double ball against the wall. all good for co-ordination.
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My grandfather taught me Nine Man's Morris during the 1940's.
Chas
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Bisley: DAVIS, GARDINER, GRIME, JEFFERIES, PEACEY, FRANKLIN, COOK. BROWN.
Chipping Sodbury: HARDING.
Colerne: GOLDEN.
Gt Badminton: DAVIES.
Horsley: ADAMS, COOK, GAZARD, HILL, PRIDE, TEAKLE.
Kings Stanley: BISHOP, PINEGAR.
Minchinhampton, MASON
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wish we had kept ours!!! worth quite a bit if the box is in reasonable nick.