It did not take much to keep us occupied as kids 70 years ago

[sweetdexter]

Watching a football game today (Feb 28 ) and seeing the antics of a player rolling around on the ground brought to mind what we used to do in Hillsborough Park 70 years ago

I think we used to call it "The Rolly Polly Hill"

The hill that went from the pond to the tennis courts.

We would lay down at the top and let gravity take us to the bottom.

Can't see kids doing it today

[hillsbro]

Yep - been there, done that! Also went full speed on my Tri-ang scooter down the hill from the library, and climbed the easy-to-climb, sloping tree near the wall of the Broughton Road gardens - sadly long gone, but it was fun!.

[jmdee]

How about playing cowboys and Indians, with or without toy guns, playing hopscotch, spinning tops, hidey, kick can, knock and run, film stars (guessing the star from their initials only), football and cricket, taking car licence plates, train spotting, and so many others, all outside, and all without expensive equipment. Those were the days my friend.

[Minimo]

I don't know about kids. I remember a group of us adults doing a roly poly down a slope in Norfolk Park.

[Frederick1]

I don't know about kids. I remember a group of us adults doing a roly poly down a slope in Norfolk Park.

 

You know what they say? Growing old is compulsory, growing up, is optional!!!

 

:)

[Jim Hardie]

How about playing cowboys and Indians, with or without toy guns, playing hopscotch, spinning tops, hidey, kick can, knock and run, film stars (guessing the star from their initials only), football and cricket, taking car licence plates, train spotting, and so many others, all outside, and all without expensive equipment. Those were the days my friend.

 

I vaguely remember playing film stars. I think there was more to it than just guessing the name though. Didn't it involve one person standing on one side of the street and the rest on the other and then dashing across the road if you got it right? If you got there before the person asking the question crossed in the other direction then it was your turn to ask the questions.

Was that it or did I dream it?

[handypandy]

Yes Jim Hardie, I remember it ! Usually too, a game of 'iddy.... one...two...three...dun ya.

 

 

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Also, does anyone remember the long rhyme that used all the TV shows. Part of it went....

Bronco Laine had a pain,

So they sent for wagon train,

Wagon train was no good,

So they sent for Robin Hood,

Robin Hood lost his bow,

So they sent for Ivanhoe,

Ivanhoe killed a man,

So they sent for Big Cheyenne,

Big Cheyenne was having tea,

So they sent for Laramie,

Laramie lost his cargo,

So they sent for Wells Fargo,

Wells Fargo lost its hunter,

So they sent for Billy Bunter,

Billy Bunter was too large,

So they sent for "I'm in charge"

 

 

I only remembered the first couple of lines, I couldn't believe my eyes when I googled it !!

 

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Edited March 1, 2015 by handypandy

[kay1]

catching a tram from Tinsley (always upstairs in the front bay) to Millhouses Park with a bit of bread and jam and a bottle of water to paddle in the stream and come back at tea time. If we went to Rotherham Clifton Park we used to walk both ways and save tram fare so we could we could have a donkey ride.

[Bodie]

I used to love playing kick can, was the highlight of sundays

[mrs grissom]

We were just discussing this with friends yesterday funnily enough. Our favourite game when we were young was voted playing Seventh Cavalry. This consisted of a pack of us kids galloping up and down the hill on pretend horses , slapping our hips and playing imaginary bugles !! A close second was Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. This consisted of lurching from one side of the pavement to the other . The pictures were all in our heads , what used to be called imagination .