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Post by pedro42 on Mar 3, 2013 15:39:09 GMT
I don't rate the chances of the shop window lasting very long!!
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Post by jhedger on Mar 3, 2013 16:53:13 GMT
Do I ever remember playing out! I was never in! Lol Football in the street, always! - Browns gate (Baker St) as the goal - scarpering from 'coppers!' L.O.N.D.O.N - British bulldog, May I? Statues etc, etc Tig - funniest was Tig on Green, as there was hardly any green 'down our end'
Played at 'being god's - Thor etc - comic characters were out then (60's)
Climbing on garages - 'garden hopping!' without being caught!
When I was on my own - spent ages in our scruffy front gardens - watching ants and splitting open scrubby privet leaves to find little white bugs!
Or sitting atop the wall -(there was a brick missing for a foothold) watching the world go by!
Where have you gone world!?
Jan
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Post by bernie120g on Mar 3, 2013 18:03:13 GMT
The Horseshes on Cov 1888cycle race Attachments:
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Post by bernie120g on Mar 3, 2013 18:06:56 GMT
The Mermaid 1890s
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Post by joebedworth on Mar 4, 2013 10:33:24 GMT
Playing outside: Yep - a very very popular pass-time once upon a time. You got to know all the other kids on the street too. The problem with using a lamp post as the wicket was that no one could agree how high the ball would have to hit for you to be not out. As long as it hit - you were a gonner. It was a good exercise in some ways because it meant you never backed out of the way of the ball - you stood your ground and if you missed with the bat, it would just just hit you. We never played the LBW rule - and being a soft rubber ball, or a tennis ball, the pain was tolerable if and when it did hit you. We didn´t break many windows - but it was a nuisance every time the ball landed inside someone´s front gate. You knew you´d get told off the moment you touched the gate, or tried to jump over the wall. So whoever hit...had to fetch it. Some kids had a rule that if the ball landed in someone else´s garden, you were out...or 6 and out. Oh - a one handed catch off the wall was also considered out. There was also "last man standing"...and "walking back" (when you ran out of partners).
It would be so much simpler Abid, if the pro`s played to these rules.
Joe.
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