rosemary19 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Has anyone mentioned playing hopscotch on the pavemants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodStar Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 Things we used to do. Take two large nut and bolts (half inch at least). Discard one of the nuts. Screw one bolt into the nut a couple of turns. Fill the cavity with.......( redacted)Screw the second bolt into the nut to .....(redacted), stand in a safe place, a porch will do, extend arm outside the porch and drop the the nut and bolts VERTICALLY (very important). Loud bang and the nut and bolts screams at least twenty feet into the air. We also used to play over the local sand pit which had bulrushes growing along the edge and was 50 feet deep in the middle. We would cut down sufficient to form a thick mat which was then used as a raft to paddle out from the shore. We were 8 or 9 years old and thank God our parents never knew what we were up to. How we never drowned I don't know:loopy: At the end of WW2 aged 6 I was mooching about amongst the undergrowth in an alley when I came across a artillery shell. On the way home some older boys took it off me and started to throw it to one another before eventually returning to me. When I got home I went to store it in the cupboard under the stairs. My Dad shouted "what are you up to David?" "Nothing Dad" When he saw what the nothing was he put the live shell in a bucket of water and called the police. What a spoilsport. We had such freedom to roam and cycle for miles on roads which were almost devoid of cars. Get on bus and visit London Transport garages 10 miles away to collect bus numbers. All before we were 12 years old Happy days. With what?? To what?? This sounds fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppet2 Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 My brothers were forever finding parts of bike frames and cow horn handlebars and making their own custom made bikes and go-carts. Kids don't do this today. Too busy on the computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxon51 Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Meersbrook in Rollestone Wood, Gleadless Valley, early 1960's. Once dammed it. Spent about 8 hours doing it. Would usually destroy the dam prior to going in at the end of the day. On this occasion, however, I forgot what time it was so panicked and just went home. (The street lights were on ). I spent all night fearing that I had flooded the whole estate and the folks living further down the hill towards Heeley would die of thirst. Got up in the morning and couldn't wait to rush off to see the disaster. The brook was flowing as normal and there was a small puddle behind the dam. Never did become a civil engineer:hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyLover Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Anyone remember making those little sort of 'walking machines' out of a cotton reel, and elastic band, some candle wax and some matchsticks? No idea what they were called, but I remember making them! Ah! - yes I remember them well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyndyloo Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Sat on corsy edge making pitch lollies with sticks on a hot day.Then rubbing butter or lard on your hands to clean the pitch off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyLover Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Has anyone mentioned playing hopscotch on the pavemants. Ah! yes, and also tying some string to the lampost and taking it in turns to jump over it, moving it up each time to see who could jump the highest. One of the lads, who was very tall, managed a jump which astounded me so much that i shouted "f . . . . . . h . . ."! - unfortunately my Dad heard me through the bathroom window and fetched me in for a pasting!:hihi: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyLover Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Making "perfume" from rose petals and adding water. My Dad wasn't very pleased when he found out we had plucked all the petals off the roses in the garden! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyLover Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Attaching a string to the base of two empty bean tins, and stretching it from my bedroom window to my friends next door - a makeshift "telephone" - it didnt work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyndyloo Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Doing handstands in the street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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