Name a game you played outside as a kid

Joe Knight… Hop scotch

Karen Sweatman… Stuck in the mud

Alan Esdaile… marbles

Leigh Wieland-Boys… Jacks, hopscotch, tag, hide & seek, pooh sticks, football, skipping, cowboys & Indians – such happy days

John Warner… Me too!

Kathy Wood… French skipping

British Bulldog… British bulldog and hide and seek.

Janine Anne Scott… Kiss chase xx

Colin Fox… probably get arrested for sexual harassment these days.

Ernest Ballard…  Cowboys and Indians ha ha

Sandy Max… All of those…plus snail and caterpillar racing!

Jacquie Hinves… Hopscotch!

Joe Knight… Haven’t seen Piggy in the middle 😁 tin can Tommy, cricket in the rd use to use outspan orange wooden box, telephone two cans with string stretch across road to your friends house 😂😂😂kytes hide and seek 😊but NO Mobile Phones

Graham Marriott… Thank god they weren’t invented back then

Alan Esdaile… Telephone with two cans was good.

Angela Frances Gardner… Ball games against a wall, we played this for hours making up different combinations of bounces! Great fun!

Yvonne Cleland… Rounders, skipping, okey cokey, marbles, hide and seek, catch, jacks, french skipping, kiss chase

Joe Knight… Didn’t cost much but great fun 😂perhaps parents should reinvent these games back into the children instead of all these things that keeps them indoors and leave us oldies to play with the phones

Gaynor Lewry… French skipping

Terry Hardwick… Knock down ginger

Sharon Kirby… Hopscotch

Trevor Piper… 1 roller skates with a comic annual on top to sit on like a downhill slalom

Steve Thorpe… False Alarm, It, etc etc

Maggie Geary… Roller skating down side road by back gate

Angela Frances Gardner… This was my favourite game, would keep me occupied for hours! Give me a blank wall and a ball

Phil Thornton… British bulldog …. (it got banned)

Paul Marshall…  Building early prototype skateboards with a roller skate and a 📖 book. Building camps

Brian Davies… Tick

Judy Atkinson… All those rhymes that went with long rope skipping & circle games

Phyllis Mendenhall…Rounders, Marbles , hopscotch ,knock down ginger

Dave Nattress… Making go-carts as featured before, Germans and English, occasionally Japs and Americans (I guess).  Always good games on the way back from Saturday morning ABC Minors, cricket with the wicket drawn on the bottom of a lampost or wall, also something we called “French Cricket” with a wider wicket, even used proper stumps on the fields, “it” – whatever “it” was, basically no one wanted to be “it”.

Martin Richter… tippy-cat

Alan Pepper… Go carts , Tip and Run , Split the Kipper , Jerries and English , and footie of course !

Jake Nelson… Yes, cowboys & indians, British Bulldog, ‘It’, cricket in our road, as there would only be about one car per hour driving along it. Football, conkers, marbles using the manhole covers, and climb a handy tree to use it as a Lancaster bomber. Honestly, I did so many missions, yet never got the recognition for it.

 

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  1. Making go-carts as featured before, Germans and English, occasionally Japs and Americans (I guess). Always good games on the way back from Saturday morning ABC Minors, cricket with the wicket drawn on the bottom of a lampost or wall, also something we called “French Cricket” with a wider wicket, even used proper stumps on the fields, “it” – whatever “it” was, basically no one wanted to be “it”.

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  2. Yes, cowboys & indians, British Bulldog, ‘It’, cricket in our road, as there would only be about one car per hour driving along it. Football, conkers, marbles using the manhole covers, and climb a handy tree to use it as a Lancaster bomber. Honestly, I did so many missions, yet never got the recognition for it.

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