What do you remember about your Childhood? What daft things did you get up to... or should i say what cool things... Well everything is cool when ya small is it not ;)

My best Childhood game was making tents indoors with my sister... Using our bunkbeds... Mum & Dads Sun loungers... Loads of blankets/sheets... with lots of pegs to keep it all together...

We were the best... :clap:

Oh and we loved Schools... or should i say my sister did lol yep you guessed it... Why is it the eldest always has to be teacher :( so unfair... always was given loads of homework and always got things wrong :lol: I dunno think i should have had words!

We also erm.... should i really admit to such a thing :? here goes my rep :lol: Me & my sister also put on an Abba concert :lol: for our family....

Hmmm think i will sneak away quietly now... ;)

hmm lets see... well I used to have a wickid den with my friend when i was like 8 or 9... it was like in this random bush where nobody could... well would go to... unfortunalty that place is now a new estate of houses and not a field :(

also I used to do this really stupid thing with my little brother when i was like 9 and he was 5 where when the bedding got washed we wrapped ourselves up in the quilts and pretended to be in caccoons... lmao... now I look back on that fad it was REALLY sad... lol

umm what else? used to love annoying the neighbours on our road playing up and down the pavement cus we had old people all around us on the council estate we lived on... twas quite amusing cus this one guy used to have real fits at us whenever we bounced a ball near his house... hehehe... but of course I was little so its fun to annoy people :D

I also used to love picking conkers from the big trees in Hackenthorpe :D where rainbow forge school used to be, which is now a big estate of new houses... but they couldnt remove the trees :D maybe I'll go try and find a way to get to them one day... lol

Originally posted by xafier
also I used to do this really stupid thing with my little brother when i was like 9 and he was 5 where when the bedding got washed we wrapped ourselves up in the quilts and pretended to be in caccoons... lmao... now I look back on that fad it was REALLY sad... lol


Omg!!! I'll join you in the club of sadness as i used to do that :lol:

I forgot about that :lol: thanx for the reminder...

That reminds me.... Where's my bed sheets ;)

No honestly i have grown out it :razz:

Originally posted by xafier

we wrapped ourselves up in the quilts and pretended to be in caccoons... lmao... now I look back on that fad it was REALLY sad... lol



We (me and my 2 brothers) took that one step further and invented a game called 'Parcels'. This involved 2 of us wrapping the other one up in our dads old navy issue sleeping bag then tieing them up with rope, dressing gown belts and anything else we could get our hands on. We would then spin them round, drag them off somewhere such as a cupboard, shut the door and run off and hide. The 'parcelee' had to escape and come and find us!! Ahhhh such fun!!

We also had a den across the road from the flats we lived in. (Regent Court) It was on some spare land where the back to backs had been knocked down on Owlerton Green. We found a huge cauldren and we used to sneak bottles of water from home to put in it. We mixed it with mud and other nasty things and filled up empty pop bottles with it. We then stood on the island inbetween Owlerton Green and Bradfield Road (that we called the Peace Gardens!!) and tried to sell it as bottles of 'Love Potion' to the workers as they came out of Swan Mortons!!

Such innocence eh?

Those were the days!!

Hiya all,

Does anyone remember:

-skirts with braces on,
-Shellsuits
-L.A Gear trainers
-jeans ...... Black all over, but with red material on the bum?
(Sort of looked like a Baboon?)


Oh my gawwwwd!!!
We used to think we were 'The Bomb,' wearing them at the time!

When your mother gets the photo album out -It's certainly not one of those "Kodac Moments" you wanna remember!

Angel x

I remember LA Gear trainers...

I remember when Nike Air's first came out when I was like in year 5 or something and everyone just HAD to have them or you wasnt cool... then just when everyone got them they made Nike Air MAX, with a bigger bubble :P but my folks wouldnt buy them me cus they'd only just bought me the other ones :(

y'know the best bits of being a kid? the music! remember when Oasis was on Hallam FM like every other song? lol or PJ & Duncan? or that Cotton Eye Joe song? :D OMG the music of my childhood is scary!!

La Gear Trainers (complete with flashing red heels everytime your foot touched the ground) :heyhey:

OoOoO what about Naff Co 54 ? :suspect:

Here are a few of my childhood memories

*climbing trees
*making dens
*playing in our neighbour's dog kennel pretending it was a Wendy House
*making ' rose perfume' from the flower heads that we had knocked of of our friend's aunty's roses
*making slop-dosh pies
*at home - an old wooden clothes horse with a blanket over it (like a tent)
*ripping a catalogue up and covering our front room carpet and making a 'ice-rink' to skate on
*climbing on the garages near where we lived to watch the fish in a pond - fascinating
*tennis on the street
*singing to passers by outside our house
*catching butterflies and bees in a net
*wading through a dyke complete with rats!
*hide and seek

I'll let someone else take a trip now.....
:)

Originally posted by xafier
or that Cotton Eye Joe song? :D OMG the music of my childhood is scary!!

Arrrgh I hated that song, still do :gag:

Ok, I probably shouldn't really admit to this, but one thing I will always remember is that when Caron Keating first appeared on Blue Peter, she also went on Saturday Superstore one morning for a phone in.

After two and a quarter hours redialling 01 811 8055 (who else remembers that number?) trying to get through, I was finally rewarded.

"Is there anything you wouldn't do for a Blue Peter report?" I asked her.

"Well...." she replied, thinking. "I wouldn't sit naked in a barrel full of wood-lice!"

For some reason that image has stayed with me!!!!;)

Hmm, how come our older members remember the games they invented, but the younger ones remember which trainers they owned? What does that say about the consumerist society we live in today?

Satin sleeping bags (at the caravan in Wales, where mornings were bl**dy freezing) made good cocoons! When they came home to be washed you could tobbogan down the stairs and bang your head on the wall mounted gas heater at the bottom!

I'm not even 30 yet but i feel like an old 'biddi'!. Our house used to back on to the Manor fields and my childhood was filled with exploring and visiting pigeon 'coyts' and nesting/egging. When i got a tad older this changed to back hopping and knock-a-door-run and breakdancing and playing 'delavio'.
Now it seems kids are only interested in games consoles and mobile phones.
I would dissappear at 8am and not get home till about 7pm when i was hungry.
OHHHH take me back. I loved every second, "C'mon Kes"

Originally posted by Strix
Hmm, how come our older members remember the games they invented, but the younger ones remember which trainers they owned? What does that say about the consumerist society we live in today?

Its very sad how times have changed... Youngsters of today are more interested in their computer games... branded clothes... wanting to look the best... etc...

We tho made our own games up which i will say was the best... using our imaginations...

I remember my Mum sitting me out in the back garden on a little door mat with a bowl of water and a jug... I would sit there for hours... Itwas great fun... or sometimes she would sit me down in the lounge with a tub full of pegs...

I also love my dolls... that sadly is a very rare sight these days little girls walking around with their dolls prams... or even little girls dressing up in their Mums Clothes & Shoes... that too was one of my favourite things to do...

What about running about with your hood of your coat on your head leaving the arms free... running about like bat man :lol:

What fun we had in the late 70's early 80's... :)

I would like to think that when the time comes for me to be a Mother i can do all the same things with them that i did... but no doubt times will have moved on again... Even computer games will be a thing of the past lol

I guess that life...

But who says we have to grow up... :razz: hehehehehe!!!

Originally posted by vidster
I'm not even 30 yet but i feel like an old 'biddi'!. Our house used to back on to the Manor fields and my childhood was filled with exploring and visiting pigeon 'coyts' and nesting/egging. When i got a tad older this changed to back hopping and knock-a-door-run and breakdancing and playing 'delavio'.
Now it seems kids are only interested in games consoles and mobile phones.
I would dissappear at 8am and not get home till about 7pm when i was hungry.
OHHHH take me back. I loved every second, "C'mon Kes"

So true i would always go out to play and come back when i was hungry... My parents never worried because they knew once my tummy started rumbling i would be home...

I even used to walk through a park on my own at the age of 14 at 11.00pm... wouldnt do it now mind... at 14 you maybe thinking thats old enough but back then 14 would be like about 10...

I never thought about dangers... as there wasnt any!

How times change

Heres a story to prove how times change in 3 years

My sister had a 14th party in a hall... We all had a great time... drinking pop dancing having a laugh it was cool...

My parents always treated us the same so 3 years later it was my 14th in 1985...

I had my party in the same hall... I invited loads of my mates from school it was really exciting until they started turning up... DRUNK!!! yep 3 yrs on an they were Drinking & smoking in the loo's

My Mum bless er was horrified... I myself had no clue my party would turn into such a shambles :lol:

Its another childhood memory tho :) lol

We played football on the street using the grates as goalposts. Pity the goalie! When a car was spotted (hardly ever in the 70's) someone would shout "CAR".

Cricket on the grass verge without stumps - just a tree! Made being the wicket keeper a bit dangrous though :)

Anyone remember French Cricket? We only played that when the girls were out. ;)

One of the best times was when the council came to snowplough the road where we were sledging so we tied our sledges together and strung them across the road and stopped them! They tried coming from 3 directions but we stopped them each time. Kiddie power!!! They eventually fetched another lorry that waited until we went in for tea - then they gritted it in a high speed pass. :D

I think i must have grown up just at the last moment before computers and technology started taking over young kids lives... computers and consoles didnt really make it big till the mid 90's by which time I was 10 so had had my young childhood :) Although I admit i spent a fair bit of my secondary school time having big tournments on the playstation with my 2 friends :D

but we also used to collect Warhammer stuff, which i was insanely good at painting, I enjoyed the painting more than the playing really... in like '98 I went to the NEC in Birmingham with my 2 friends for "Gamesday" which was like a big Warhammer convention... some of my models got entered into the painting competition and I got into the last round for my catagory (single squad with captain)... which was the top 50 i think... not bad at 13 eh? :D

wandering off to the pit pond in the summer to get soaked through and annoy the fishermen.

Playing skipping across our road with a washing line tied to a lampost one end so only one of us was turning it - not very safe now like.

Tying loads of rubber bands together to make one BIG elastic band then playing giants cats cradle with your feet...i cannot remember the name and cats cradle is the only thing I can liken it to.

Making dens from the HUGE elderberry bush in the local 'rec'

Moon

oh here we go..

6 weeks holidays (seemed like 6 months) seem to stick most vividly in my mind. On the Vic Hallam estate at Birley from lets say 1969 aged 5 to 1979/80ish when I left school

That really long hot summer (76?) and bringing back a skateboard from St Ives

Mom and Dad used to work so during the 6 week hols they'd give me a sarnie and a bit of money, and we'd be off to the school fields (Thornbridge) to play 20 a side footy matches or off into Birley Woods to swing in the trees etc can you imagine that now? We'd be back for tea then out til it went dark. I vividly remember walking across the field to Birley Woods before it became a golf course and the grass was so long that it was up to your knees and the wind used to blow through it in waves.. (**wipes tear from eye**)

Watching Banana Splits / Why Don't You? / The Flashing Blade / DoubleDeckers if it was raining.

Re-enacting goals off Match Of The Day on the back field. Trying to do the Pele Soccer Skills as demonstrated during the football highlights on YTV on Sunday dinnertimes (remember that?). Games of Wembley, 3-and-In and Spot. Full on cricket matches with the pads and gloves etc even though we were using a tennis ball (even a golf ball once which used to go miles if you hit it right LOL).

Subbuteo league on the estate with taped commentary and crowd noise from the Sunday Football on TV.

Games of war, usually second world war (how wholesome), using toy guns and 'muck bombs'.. remember them? grenade sized clumps of dried mud which exploded marvelously on impact. One lad had a proper flag on a pole too, so we spent hours marching behind the flag of India for some reason. All our comics at the time were WW2 related (Warlord, Victor etc).

I clearly remember trying to do our own radio station using the new fangled tape recorder on my mates Dad's 'Music Centre'. You had to put this microphone in front of the speakers and try not to talk during the record LOL I'd love to hear that tape now ("You're tuned to radio NEWSTEAD") we'd have 'Howzat' by Sherbet followed by Tony Christie and the like.. ROCK N ROLL! My mates mum and dad were big fans of the Fiesta club and always had records by the current club acts like the Dooleys LOL

We also went through a phase of REALLY dangerous stuff in our early teens. We had a swing between two trees in Birley Woods which was over a really deep ditch. We'd swing across and put a knife as high up the other tree as possible and then the next lad had to swing up and reach the knife. Then he had to do the same. I once reached the knife, turned mid air to punch the air and realised the swing was no longer between my legs. I had a Coyote and Roadrunner moment where I hung momentarily in the air before plummeting to earth, breaking my ankle so badly that I had to carried home by my mates. They carried me above their heads like hunters or something LOL

Angel 05
I remember we used to stand at the edge of our estate when it was pitch black, and dare each other to run across what is now the Birley Golf Course and into the woods! The only dangers then (that we percieved anyway) was the ghost of the farmer/caretaker/woman who lived in the woods (delete as applicable). I can't imagine letting my kids do that now.. sad that.

Did every school have a ghost of a cleaning lady who fell in the boilers? LOL
We'd hang around Thornbridge school at night daring each other to go down the rickety metal steps to where we thought the big school boilers probably were. I used to S**T myself but do it anyway. The caretaker once spoiled it all though by saying it was impossible to fall into the boilers. We pictured it like some gate into hell or something where sweaty old blokes shovelled heaps of coal into a roaring furnace LOL I still think it was haunted though.

When I was a nipper, I posted a dead bird through this girls letter box :)

We used to play cricket/basketball/football etc on this cul-de sac (sp) but someone had a "No ball games" sign put up.. So late one night, me and my mate dressed in all black, dug the sign up and ran up the road with it laughing our heads off, then dumped it on the netto car park. :D

We used to use the No Ball Games sign as a goal post LOL

I remember our school was ment to have had a ghost never saw it tho i think he was a caretaker that had died in his house which was within the grounds of the school... Strange huh i am sure its kids passing on stories :?

I also remember playing knock down ginger... A girl at my previous work place had never heard of it... One day she was talking to a guy at work about it who happened to be ginger... she got a little confused and thought it was a game of knocking on a front door but because he was ginger his mates made him do it.... :lol:

Bless er! I put her in the picture :lol:

Theres so many memories being brought back to me whilst reading some of these posts...

Being a kid was great other than going to school :( No worries of money... Having loads of mates... falling out with one making another... always having ya tea ready for when you ran in the front door... Once your tea was in ya tummy it was time to go out to play again...

What a life eh! :razz:

knock down ginger? what is it? I've never heard of it :o did i miss out on something when I was little!??!

Originally posted by xafier
knock down ginger? what is it? I've never heard of it :o did i miss out on something when I was little!??!

Looks like you might have done... But i think these days it would probably scare preople to death not the kinda thing you would dream of doing nowadays really...

You knock on someones front door an run away and hide wait for the person to go in an move onto the next door you would go around in a crowd mind an take it in turns :lol:

I also remember knocking on someones door with a group of mates telling the owners of the house that we had been invited to a party there lol should see some of the peoples faces :lol: Such a cruel thing to do looking back...

Nasty Child i was :razz:


Does anyone remember Buzby the BT Mascot?

Me and my friends used to dial 100 directory enquiries and ask for Buzby all the time :lol:

Just thought of something else too... As my parents phone bills were so high they bought a lock for the phone (the dialing phones) anyway i found a way to use the phone without removing the lock... sneaky eh! well all you had to do was tap it... the little black things where the receiver was.... tap those little black things the number of times of the digits in the telephone number ie: 273879 you would tap 1 2 then 1-7 then 1-3 etc

I wasnt a bratt honestly :razz:

More than 50 yr ago
We used to sit on the remains of the anderson shelters and slide down or give rocking rides. Make Kites out of brown paper and sticks with glue out of flour and water and fly them in Norfolk Park. ( which was a park) Listen to the radio with an accumalater battery as big as a computer is now. which my dad had to have refilled every so often.
My sister and I used to play dolls house. We had this doll with no hair and one arm but as my sister said such a beautiful face, so we gave her pride of place.
We played cricket in the park and had our collie dog as fielder, and the boys would not be out when the dog caught the ball.
We wandered all day long, Wymingbrooke, Ford, acrooss fiddlers field, Robin Brook or Lightwood Laneand down to Ford, once saw a mass excedus of toads crossing one of the rds to Ford, they were even jumping over the front wheel of my bike which I daren't get off. Was taught how to tickle trout under the roots of a tree in thewater but never caught one.
Uesd to catch the circuler bus to see the city.
Met a few perves but didn't reconise the significance.
Picked bluebells in Butt woods.