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| philfred Quote | Reply | | Street Games posted on: 5/9/2005 7:34:48 PM It should be a worthy topic to stir up a few memories. To start things off, Stick n Peggy, Coppice Drive style. Get as many lads together as possible, the lasses were too genteel for street games. Two bricks, a tennis ball and stick for wellying the ball. You agreed the "batting order" and off you went. The idea was to place the bricks side by side so they supported the tennis ball with the stick between the bricks. The batter lifted the stick raising the ball and the ball was struck before reaching the ground. the batter then ran to a peg ( jumper/coat ) marker to score a run. If the ball was caught or reached the peg before the batter then the batter was out. The usual six and out in a garden rule applied to all. the winner was the one who scored the most runs. |
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suzard
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replied on: 5/10/2005 12:01:51 PM At Langley Mill we played "Stick and Peggy"-but the girls weren't so refined 'cos we all joined in!It was a summer game-light nights and long summer holidays -played on the rec. My favourite winter game was "Rallio"-we split in to 2 teams-one team went off to hide - shouting Rallio 1, going a bit further then shouting Rallio 2 and when the hiding place was reached Rallio 3-that was the signal for the other team to leave their post(usually a lampost) and set off to find the other team. When the hiding place was discovered everyone tried to make it back to touch the lampost and shout Rallio 1,2,3-then you were home and dry. Thhe finding team had to try and touch you, saying Rallio 1 2 3 before you got back to the post-if they did you were out.We would then play another game with the finders becoming the hiders. At the end of the evening the team with the most players to get back to the post were declared winners. Sounds complicated, but it was great fun. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 5/23/2005 7:36:24 PM Snobs, made out of clay and made square. Five snobs to the throw. Catch as many as you could on the back of your hand with an up in the air throw. Azzabuv.  |
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replied on: 5/23/2005 7:41:10 PM Conkers, your favourite one soaked in vinegar over-night, to become the champion basher next day. Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 5/24/2005 8:18:41 AM How about "MILK BOTTLE TOPS" Skimmed up to the wall and if you landed on one you won the lot We did not have Fag Cards in those days at Langley Mill. |
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replied on: 5/24/2005 12:55:11 PM Aye, Fag Card skimming. The starter of many school-yard wars and fights. Gaining a full set of cards was the aim in life. For some reason, it seemed to be a predominantly school-yard game in the 1940s/1950s. I never saw it played in the streets much. The streets seemed to be used mainly for comparisons of the various sets of cards owned by who-ever. But in the school-yard next day.... it was a daily MUST - at times. It was heart-breaking, when having ALMOST a full set of cards, of a particular kind and then losing the bulk of the set next day - the word 'devastation' and all its meanings were born. Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 5/24/2005 4:51:41 PM Whip and top-for some reason usually around Pancake day!!!! The window breakers were the best-we used to make patterns on the top in coloured chalk-then we'd have "chalky" knees where we had started the top off on one knee. |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 5/25/2005 3:23:04 PM Marbles - the many coloured glass variety. There were many various games. Azzabuv. |
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Marylyn
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replied on: 6/14/2005 6:37:30 PM I remember at Lockton Avenue Girls school, then at Mundy Street where I was one of the first intake of girls, we used to parade about in a line, arms around each others shoulders in a line chanting 'all here who's playing at ...'( whatever the chosen game was). We often spent so long doing this it was time to go in before we actually started the game! |
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Azzabuv
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replied on: 6/15/2005 12:26:39 PM Hop Scotch, anyone? Azzabuv. |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 6/16/2005 1:29:09 PM we used to play rally ho on the streets,ring any memories with anyone.and we used do cat creeping, see how far you get across peoples back gardens before geting caught. |
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RMMee
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replied on: 6/16/2005 5:56:03 PM I can remember the name Rally Ho, but can't remember what it was! |
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Iceboy53
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replied on: 6/16/2005 7:14:29 PM wasn't it where someone would close their eyes and count to 50 or an 100 and come and find you and then who ever he found had to help him. the last one to be found then in turn had to be the one who did the searching. |
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replied on: 6/16/2005 8:16:46 PM Sounds right!. We used to play that at dusk and into darkness around Sisson's Yard on Cromford Road, Langley Mill. The really sad thing is that, although I wasn't that adventurous as a kid, I wouldn't let my kids do half of what I did! Its a shame really. But society has changed. |
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replied on: 6/16/2005 10:58:58 PM We used to do 'Garden Jumping' for quite awhile, at night, in our early teens, down the right-hand side of Fletcher St; From the top to the bottom. It was a quick leap/shinny onto the top of the wall and as fast as you could over all the gardens. Last one to finish was made to feel a right chicken nerd. If there had ever been any large garden ornaments, we'd have been crippled for life. AND not forgetting the good old night-time Rally Ho. I can't remember what we actually called it, but it could last for hours and did. The coolness of the then fairly quiet dark nights was pure enchantment. Azzabuv. |
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replied on: 6/17/2005 12:17:18 AM Robert, Iceboy, Azzabuv-posted (5/10/05) the Rallio-or Rally ho-rules, Langley Mill style!!! Fancy a game??? |
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