Streets - pavements, graffiti and string
The Tin Horse
"I remember we played on the street at a much earlier age. I remember my fifth birthday. There was a little boy downstairs called Tony and he had a tin horse. I coveted this tin horse. You could sit on it if you were careful and it had legs and if you jumped up and down the legs moved in different directions. We played out on the street at a very early age." Linde
"I remember we played on the street at a much earlier age. I remember my fifth birthday. There was a little boy downstairs called Tony and he had a tin horse. I coveted this tin horse. You could sit on it if you were careful and it had legs and if you jumped up and down the legs moved in different directions. We played out on the street at a very early age." Linde
"Building camps, getting up to mischief, running riot on bomb sites and when the bomb sites became building sites we’d play on them and build our camps with bits of planks and scaffolding and string." John
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“The boy had just finished writing it when I came along. He looked embarrassed." Peter Dixon
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Knock Down Ginger
"We would tie string or even cotton which was better because you couldn’t see it very easily, on a door knocker and then we would go and hide with the other end of the cotton and we would pull it and knock and someone would come to the door and look. When there was no one there they would go back in and we would do it again. The knocker would make a big bang and the people would come out and after a while they would get very cross." Eddie
"We would tie string or even cotton which was better because you couldn’t see it very easily, on a door knocker and then we would go and hide with the other end of the cotton and we would pull it and knock and someone would come to the door and look. When there was no one there they would go back in and we would do it again. The knocker would make a big bang and the people would come out and after a while they would get very cross." Eddie
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Wellington Boots
"They were leaning against a wall near a footbridge over the canal. The main boy was wearing wellingtons and I thought, 'No way would he have had socks on' ! He would have been hot; he would have had hot feet in them on a summer’s day." Peter Dixon
"They were leaning against a wall near a footbridge over the canal. The main boy was wearing wellingtons and I thought, 'No way would he have had socks on' ! He would have been hot; he would have had hot feet in them on a summer’s day." Peter Dixon
Portobello Road
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Portobello Road
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