General Chat

Before the days of computers and tellys, can you remember the games we as children played in the streets well I thought to lighten things up we could all go back a few years.



I remember playing with a whip and peerie.

What can you remember?

hop scotch. rounders, swinging on the rope on the lamppost and chasing with a scarf twisted tight and the person chasing hit you if you got caught never thought of the dangers xxHowie

dolls and space hoppers big orange things with a funny face wish kids could experiance how it was for us x

Hopscotch with an old shoe tin but we called it peevers up here,,,,,
Double skipping rope..Jelly on the plate rhyme..

~~to Howie~~

I second that Puss,the fun we had and the dangers we put ourselves in,all without costing a fortune.

~~~~~~~~~ Polly ~~~~~~~~~
and all the rest of you ~~~~~~

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

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

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:))))

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

potato guns...

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

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
x

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 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.

x

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

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

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

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