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[Daisydot]

Making dens and you needed a password or sweeties to get in.rounders kick the can, moshie with marbles or bulls as we called them,elastic ropes god my brains gone into overdrive but I'm glad as been a crap day today,tomoriw will be better but right now I'm liking all our yesterdays lol.

[Bring me Sunshine]

I agree it is nice to look back.  I loved marbles particulary if you won that silver one, we played for hours.  I also remember going with my big sister, we walked everywhere I think she was going babysitting and we used to peer in the windows on the way (street houses no gardens) and count how many houses had colour tv's (as we didnt have one then).  Great fun!

[Daisydot]

Tenaments??

[Bring me Sunshine]

No im not sure how we would have looked through those windows unless we had large ladders tee hee!

[Scampi]

Spending hours playing 'kerby' (throw a ball towards the opposite kerb - aim is to get it to rebound off the kerb back to you) - it's only possible to play on a street with no parked cars and little or no traffic passing through .... I can't think of anywhere kids would be able to play it now 

[Bring me Sunshine]

I think we had the best childhoods; no computer games and using our imaginations x

[Daisydot]

Most definitely.We had bugger all growing up but new all our neighbours in the whole street and played safely knowing there was always a neighbour watching us I had such a happy childhood.x

[JaneinPen]

For me putting a board on one skate and hurtling down the hill. Playing jacks. Going on our bikes and parents not worrying where we were because someone would always have seen you and not going home until dusk. My first bike. Didn't have a lot of money but my dad painted up a black one with a basket on the front and I was absolutely thrilled. I can still remember the feeling when I saw it hiding in the hall one Christmas morning

[Bring me Sunshine]

We would have the longest ever skipping rope to stretch across our not so busy road, in those days, and two of us, sometimes 3, though it didnt last that long would skip singing Jelly on the plate, something about granny doing a bit of stitching cant remember any more of the words.  Then it would all stop and we would run in for money as the local Tonibell pink ice cream van would come round and we would get an icecream with a lolly stuck in it.  Spoilt!!

[Bring me Sunshine]

The rag n'bone man and his cart and horse coming round the streets!

[Daisydot]

I stole my brothers new romper suit out the drawer and took it down to the rag and bone man to get one of those trick cameras that squirted water,my arse was sore for a week but I loved that camera 😂😂

[Bring me Sunshine]

That made me chuckle!!  Our rag n'bone man gave fishes in bags of water like at the fair ground.

[Alicea]

YES Daisydot - proper chips and my granny's gravy left from Sunday!! Also in hot summers when the grass was long and dry we used to flatten out cardboard boxes and slide down hills on them, we were still doing this at 16 to the contempt of the cooler girls 😂 You could do the same on an icy road with a good solid plastic bag, none of your biodegradable rubbish xxx

[Daisydot]

Think we had the same rag man bms lol they were all called Johnny.alicea we “borrowed” bread boards from the Milanda bread company and used to slide down the stairs in the closes b4 the neighbours came out and chased us,imagine the racket we'd go nuts with our menopausal ears now 😂😂

[Bring me Sunshine]

Those poor neighbours will have been menopausal with no hrt!!!