General Chat

Gwyn, we used to play Please Mr Crocodile too, but used to ask if we could cross 'your coloured water'. I went to school in North Cheam in Surrey. My children played it too at their schools in Epsom, Surrey. I've never heard my grandchildren playing it though - I must ask them. Sue xx

Hopscotch, three balls, rounders, Jacks,marbles,hide &seek,tag, statues, & the very naughty knock down ginger!!! Shirley

Gwyn, Round these parts it's called Red Rover- Red Rover, Red Rover, please may I cross over? Yes, if you're wearing ...... Gwynne

The donkey one Shady was brilliant pmsl

Never heard o that one Gwyn.......sounds fun though.

I played many of these games too. There was another game where a group of children stood in a row with their backs against a wall. Another child stood facing them about 10 feet away. Group chanted something like :- ' Please Mr Crocodile may we cross your golden river in your golden boat today'? ( never thought before, -what odd words !!) Crocodile:-.... 'Only if you've got blue on' ( or other colour choice) Any children wearing that colour then ran like mad to get to the opposite 'bank' before the crocodile chased and caught them. If caught, they would become Mr Crocodile. Gwyn

Skipping, two-balls, three-balls, handstands against the wall. Five-stones, hop-scotch, cats cradle, knock down ginger, tag, simon says, leap frog, jacks, can't think of any more.....

My mother told me that when she was a child she and her friends found a dead donkey,they dragged it to the door of a man they all hated (he was mean to all the kids ) leaned it on his door,knocked and ran off.When he opened the door the donkey fell on him,good job they didnt have ASBOs in those days eh ! Lol

What's the time Mr Wolf...Remember that one..?

Just remembered the stick game we used to play, been bugging me all morning. Pick Up Sticks.

charlies angels knock and run hop scotch tick

I remember North, South, East, West who touched the crows nest. Used to stand up at the lampost. Also Jacks with the little rubber ball. Five stones. What were the sticks we used to play with, like kebab sticks & you had to drop them on the floor & pull out as many as you could without moving the others. We also used to build our own trolleys out of pram wheels, have a wonderful photo of my brothers all lined up with other kids in their trolleys for a race. Used to have brilliant fun with those. Hilary.

Dare, promise, kiss or command, that use to get the pulse racing. knock out ginger, knock on peeps doors and run for it,

Doctors and nurses with the bigger girls from next door, in their shed, till our mums came out and caught us! Shock, Horror!! Well I still had my knickers on, and I was only about 7! I never got the hang of roller skates, had those metal ones with an adjustable middle where you had to undo the screw to change the length of them. Brother had a scooter which I borrowed, and went zooming off, round to the next street, where I went up a dropped kerb and came off, had a huge chunk out of my shin, still have the scar to this day. Used to play schools too, I was always the teacher cos I was the oldest and the only one who could read! Had a blackboard and easel, and chalk, what fun. Could be really bossy then, as my teacher was too.

Remember the tins yep.........course I am a northerner lol! remember the paper cups with string...........we invented the first mobile phones pmsl........... Jen

Well I can remember two dolls and a pink knitted teddy.......brother had a blue knitted one, in fact we have a photo of us with our teddies...........black & white of course lol! Never did have a pram, from choice rather than hardship........I was too much of a tomboy lol!! Always wanted to play with the boys because they had more fun and were more daring...........used to go logging with them for bonfire night.........as well as playing footie with them. If the street kids got a game organised, all the boys wanted me to play on their teams because they knew they would win pmsl now thinking about it........... Jen

did anyone else used to put 2 holes in empty bean tins and put rope through them then use them as kind of improvised stilts - or was it just us lot up north lol

think the boys did that Jen, did you have a pram? i didn;t take it out much, coz of the thought of putting it away again, could'nt be bothered! mum would say if you take it out,you have to put it away! lazy child!!!!!! i remember seeing a little girl out with a pram a few years ago, and i thought 'isn't that nice! that's something you don't see now!' next thing-------she gets her mobile phone out of the pram!!!!!!!! bit different form when i had one! a pram i mean!

Here's one for you Chris........... every build a guider lol?............the old pram wheels a piece of rope and bits of wood for a seat...........wheee.....fantastic. My folks could never afford to buy us a bike but, my brother built himself one from scrounging bits and pieces here and there and from friends..........I think the only thing he paid for was a puncture kit lol! Jen

Jen, statues! that was another game we played! oh, there all coming back now!!