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knock down ginger
climbing walls and trees
conkering
hopscotch
riding chopper bikes
buying a 5p mix of sweets from the local corner shop
climbing walls and trees
conkering
hopscotch
riding chopper bikes
buying a 5p mix of sweets from the local corner shop
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Playing the wag from school
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Making swords for bits of wood, Boggies with pram wheels.
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Penny for the guy
Carol Singing Making a go kart |
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I did most of those things in the 60s, hopscotch was strictly for girls round our way though.
8 fruit salads or black jacks for an old penny in my day. Inflation must have kicked in by the 70s |
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walk the plank.....
join the crew.....was quite vicious. |
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oh and just out playing generally all day...from early morning to late at night.
we played a game called Leeveeooooo. 2 teams, once had to hunt and capture the other team members....take them back to a light pole....if a remaining member managed to hit the pole and shout Leeveeoooo, the captured members were free to escape.....one everyone in the team were captured, it was the other teams turn... this game lasted all through the school holidays... and football, jumpers for goalposts, 20 a side....you dont see kids playing nowadays....everything is so organised....you grew up in the 70s , early 80s, the internet, phones has spoiled everything.....parents think the world has got scaries because everything is reported online......it isnt, weirdos were about back then too but there wasnt a 24/7 gossip service online. |
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Knockey Door Danger,Cricket with the gear nicked from the school sports shed. Tennis when Wimbledon was on, Chalked a court out on the road,No Net.
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Yes, there were no parked cars on the street during the day. Anyone who had one was at work.
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Watched the fa cup final from 10am till 6 pm bbc followed one team itv the other ,all sorts of things going on throughout the day teams leaving the hotel without earphones or headsets happy days watching the greatest football competition there has ever been or ever will be ,I know back then most football fans would sooner win the fa cup than the league especially those who went to games.
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kerbie was another game.......had to kick or throw a football and hit the kerb....1 point for hitting the kerb, 2 points for hitting the kerb and catching the ball on return.
"annies"another....football game in grass areas where folk put up their washing.. one against one, walls for goals, only allowed 2 touches before shooting.. |
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Aberdonia
Football jumpers for goalposts we played till it was to dark to play anymore nobody ever got hungry thirsty yes . |
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There were no overweight kids where I lived. One, or possibly 2, in our school.
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Aberdonia
Football jumpers for goalposts we played till it was to dark to play anymore nobody ever got hungry thirsty yes . Rate reply: indeed, we were out until our mothers came shouting for us....you could hear your ma before you could see her....i someting walk past the big field where we used to play.....it was packed back then, lost of things going on...now, its empty..... |
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Yes saddo very good point just the odd one all we did all day was burn energy
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Playing in the park, treading on white dog poo.
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We had one fat kid at school...poor loon was teased constantly.
"loon" means boy in North East Scotland language....lol |
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Scrumping
Flicking cigarette cards closest to the wall Same with marbles |
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Kick the Can
F***ing about on building sites, and running from the cocky watchman. Dodging the Dog sh** on the pavement |
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British Bulldog
Wallsy for 10p coins Trade football stickers Parks with absolute deathtrap rides in |
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Taking empties back to the shop for the deposit refund.
Spud gun and 'caps' gun. Cowboys and Indians - almost the whole school took part. Talking to, and accepting sweets from, strangers. |
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Building dens
Scrumping Spinning a 10p coin in the 50p slot of the Space Invader Penny for the Guy Getting the entire school playground involved in a game of British Bulldogs Cycling to the newsagent at 7am on a Saturday to buy a comic (Bullet) Outdoor swimming pools with Minestrone Soup in their vending machines (because it was 12 degrees outside) Saturday morning pictures (Lassie, Champion The Wonder Horse, The Lone Ranger, Zorro, etc) Collecting enough deposits from discarded Corona Bottles to buy 10 B&H Sitting close to the TV, so you could change the channel |
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Comics Beano and Dandy
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Agree with all of these.
But jimnast talking about Cup Final day was something else. Watching from about 8.00 am - teams in the hotel having breakfast, "Road to the Final" stuff, FA cup "it's a Knockout", proper celebs putting their twopence in, on the team coaches, Community singing, etc Brilliant stuff! Then the game itself went by in a flash....  |
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Shoplifting from Woolworths.
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Standing outside the bookies asking an adult to put a pre written bet on for you.
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The OP said 70s acey!! lol
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Remember FA Cup final day raspberry, oh how things have changed.
Also the Woolworths bit acey, and getting caught stealing some pic n mix! Got away with that one though as they didn't follow it up. Phew! |
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been sent to the newsagents/tobacanist with a note of your parents
for 20jps n 20 baby regal, and collect the papers n putting the pools coupon in as well(usually sat mornings!!!!) |
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I still live in the village where i grew up in mid Kent. In the 70s as a kid we all used to be in the local rec most days playing football, cricket etc or just chilling listening to Radio Caroline. If we were not there we were up in the woods on the Kent Downs larking about on rope swings etc. As others have said, we were out in the morning and stayed out all day until tea time, then back out again for a few hours. Happy times.
Nowadays the village has almost twice as many people living here due to development over the years. The rec has almost doubled in size as well, as a disused farmers field next door has been utilised for extra space and all kinds of climbing frames, roundabouts and the like have been brought in for kids to play on. There is a basketball court and two football goals as well, me and my mates would have loved it. But whenever i walk through there the area is depressingly empty and it's very rare to hear the sound of kids having fun there, sad really but a sign of the times i suppose  In the summer i had the pleasure of looking after my nephew's pet Beagle for a week or two and we went on long walks through the lovely woods on the downs, but we hardly saw a soul even though it was the school holidays. There would have been plenty of people, especially youngsters up there when i was a kid. I'm glad i grew up in the 70's and at least i can still listen to Radio Caroline |
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kerbio
ollies (marbles) pirates rush goalie claiming deposit for soda syphons sagging boys pen |
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Watching Tiswas while waiting for my dad to finish reading the paper so I could pick out my horses.
I was allowed 21 x 5p win doubles on the TV races. |
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We had a paraffin heater at home so regularly sent round the local hardware shop to get a half gallon of paraffin in a metal container.
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we were posh. Didn't have to share our outside toilet with other families.
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Homework by candlelight during the 3 day week.
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3 large housing etate getting built near our what wa a large village,meant taking lemonade bottles back morphed in to hanging about cabins going to nearet hos atbreaktime/dinner time to get worker aterie,fih n chi,drinks and keeing the change for going, we got greedy with the lemonade bottle tarted breaking in to the yatd ar back of ho,knicking back what we,d took and taken them back again a few day laters,till we got rumbled
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cant blame parents today,we thought we were safe but turned out 1000,s of u were getting touched up/abused by church,sport coaches,boys brigade/scouts/cubs,teachers etc,etc
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Begged and begged my Mother to get me a Chopper Bike for Christmas even said i would never be bad again.....I will never forget that Christmas morning waking up and looking at the floor at the end of the bed and seeing......A pair of fakin Roller Skates.
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my mate had a real mcoy racing green mark 1 type,always 1st with everything remember him getting a FIZZA motorbike when he was 16, were from boro and i saw on facebook few yr back,he,s living his bet life few 100 yds from sea in a static caravan in cornwall, wander for a surf before breckie everyday
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Pitch and toss at school
gettin the cane clocking fruit machines with a token and thread apple raiding garden creeping throwin clumps of mud from a branch or twig at peoples back windows  Angels we were |