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Old farts from the 40 s.Do you remember these kids pastimes?


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I remember them quite well, we called them tinder boxes, we used to go to this certain hill we called the docker, the clay was good there..then we'd mold it into little boxes and put a piece of rag inside,for a wick,then light it, and it would smoulder for ages

Originally posted by sweetdexter

Do any of you guy's remember making small clay containers ,letting them dry ,then using them to burn material like rotted wood,or stuff that would just glow and smoulder?

I seem to remember we would run with them to make them glow.

I dont remember what the point of the pastime was.

We also used to use a tin can with holes.put the same combustable material inside attach a wire sling and whirl it round to make it glow.

The things we did to entertain ourselves.

I suddenly remembered these things as I was passing a dead tree that had been felled by the wind, and seeing all the dead wood in the trunk.

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Originally posted by coyleys

Any of you remember making slopdosh pies, or going to catch frogs then putting a stray up its back side and blowing till it went pop.

 

What exactly did the stray say to being pushed up a frog's backside :P

 

Sorry coyleys I couldn't resist that one

 

;)

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We used to make those square clay pots in the 40's,

whirling them around. This was on Northcote Avenue

close to Cat Lane Woods. There was also a huge

bonfire at the bottom of Raleigh Road on Nov.5th.

When I moved to Sheffield Lane Top, the communal

bonfire was on a bit of spare land between Kinnaird

Av, and Barnsley Road.

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