Play - swings, skates and cowboys
One roller skate each
"We could only afford one pair of roller skates so we would have to share and the roller skates had a nut which would make them larger or smaller so then you would have to choose. Say today I got the left hand side and Eddie would get the right hand side and then you would roll along like this and then when you got fast enough speed you could lift your foot up. It wouldn’t last very long but you had to share your roller skates." Linde
"We could only afford one pair of roller skates so we would have to share and the roller skates had a nut which would make them larger or smaller so then you would have to choose. Say today I got the left hand side and Eddie would get the right hand side and then you would roll along like this and then when you got fast enough speed you could lift your foot up. It wouldn’t last very long but you had to share your roller skates." Linde
"Every weekend, when I had money for film, I would go out with my camera." Peter Dixon
Skipping Games
"The skipping game was when a girl each end would swing a rope and you would have to run in and they would say:
Red currant, black currant, raspberry tart
Tell me the name of your sweetheart
And then they would go through the alphabet and if you stumbled on for example the letter D you would have to name someone with the name beginning with D. Then the next girl would come and skip. It was great fun. We would say whose name is D and we would go through all the boys’ names." Jean
"We used to say, tell us the name of your young man, then strawberry jam instead of raspberry tart." Frances
"The skipping game was when a girl each end would swing a rope and you would have to run in and they would say:
Red currant, black currant, raspberry tart
Tell me the name of your sweetheart
And then they would go through the alphabet and if you stumbled on for example the letter D you would have to name someone with the name beginning with D. Then the next girl would come and skip. It was great fun. We would say whose name is D and we would go through all the boys’ names." Jean
"We used to say, tell us the name of your young man, then strawberry jam instead of raspberry tart." Frances
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Ball Games "It was a girl’s game we played with two balls against the wall, called Ballsy. We had tunes that went with the game. One was : KP penny a packet, First you lick it, Then you crack it Then you wipe it down your jacket, KP penny a packet. There were different actions. You went through and as soon as you went wrong the next person would do it. You built up and built up and it could take a couple of hours as there were perhaps 6 girls and only two balls. " Linde |
"Beds"
"One of the games we played was Beds. You would draw a bed on the pavement with a half circle and numbered boxes and you would have your peever which was usually a bit of marble or a boot polish tin and you would slide the peever along. We called it Beds but it was called Hopscotch in the south." Irene "We played the same game as Linde described but we had a different rhyme. We used to say: One, two, three alairy My balls down the airy Give it to Mary Not to Charlie Chaplin." |
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"I didn’t play formal games or games like football or cricket or rounders.
That didn’t appeal to me." John
That didn’t appeal to me." John
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