Old Street Games we used to play.

DottieV · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 4:54 pm Post subject: Old Street Games we used to play.

Queenio, Queenio
Who's got the ball
I haven't got it
It isn't in my pocket
Queenio, Queenio who's got the ball?

The big ship sails through the Alley, alley o
etc..

Here come three jolly tradesmen.(3 children huddle and decide on a 'trade' to mime)

What's your trade?

Anything...

Set to work and do it.
( children mime their trade for others to guess)

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Dotty · Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject: chants

One potato, two potato, three potato, four
Five potato, six potato, seven potato, more

Dotty

PS

Like your signature DottieV

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SeaCopRimmer · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:46 am Post subject:

I loved playing Hop Scotch! Don't know the significance of it, if there really was one; I suppose that would now be called graffiti Confused

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Jane · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 10:14 am Post subject:

I remember a game called stuck in the mud. A sort of tig. When you were got you had to stand still until one of your friends crawled through your legs to unstick you. No idea where that came from though!

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mother · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 12:48 pm Post subject:

Top and whip
the old wooden tops which we would chalk patterns on and a wooden whip with a leather thong

and

mirps (marbles)

and

'What time is it Mr Fox?'

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mother · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject:

When we lived in NZ, kids would play lolly scramble.
Lollies (known here as sweets) would be thrown in the air, then the kids would dive in to find them. I believe it was the basic training for Rugby!

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Jane · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject:

Oh we had What's the time Mr Wolf

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SeaCopRimmer · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject:

I've still got a set of ceramic jacks and two wooden tops & whips; one's a 'bottle top' style and the other is a little chubby one (don't know the name for that one); maybe one of the members' interest nights could be childhood memories/games - I'll brng my jacks and tops & whips and we could play in the car park Razz

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Jane · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject:

Childhood memories or something like that would be good for a member's interest night.

Dotty take note

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Dotty · Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: childhood games

Am taking copious amounts of notes....

We could have such a night and maybe we could then have a display at one of our open days or at displays we attend. It worked well when it was our wartime remembrances.

Something else to discuss at a meeting...

Dotty

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Guest · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:39 pm Post subject:

Anyone played Ledgy where you had a rubber ball and threw it to the ledge on the tops of walls?
It had to return to you without bouncing on pavement.
Also two balls against the wall. We had lots of songs for that.
Then there was ball in stocking and bash it against the wall, don't know what we called that.
Good idea for an interest night.
Maybe we could all dress up as schoolchildren and reminisce?
Only kidding!!!

DottieV · Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject:

Above post is me!!! Forgot to log in.... Not as Dottie as I seem ... honest !!!!
Perhaps I should go to bed instead of messing on machine. ZZZZZZZZzzz

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SeaCopRimmer · Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 8:42 am Post subject:

I remember getting pictures of film stars in packets of sweet cigarettes and we used to play swapsies with them; we also had a game where somebody would shout out the name of a film star and if you had the picture you took a step forward and the one who reached the opposite wall was the winner - a bit dodgy when we were stepping across the road!

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Jane · Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 9:30 am Post subject:

Seacop - did they have cars then?

Oh but horses and carts could go at a speed couldn't they?

Now I'm for it Embarassed

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SeaCopRimmer · Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 1:53 pm Post subject:

Yes, Jane, they did have cars; in fact my stepfather had a car which was used as a taxi! Mind you, the coalman and milkman came with a horse and car (followed closely by buckets and shovels) Laughing

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