Games we used to play

Do not know if this has been done before but here goes, does any one remember the games we used to play, usually in the playground such as

The farmers in his den
The big ship sails on the alley alley o (what was the alley alley o) i remember the tune to this games, but did we all line up with one person's arm outstretched on a wall and then we seemed to go under the arm. can't remember any more.

steph

i can remember
british bulldog, conkers

Besides the usual games of football & cricket played on the bomb site adjacent to Lapworth grove off Vincent Street, these games I never liked. We would occasionally play tracking when nobody had a ball to play with. This consisted of two teams, one team would be given a count of 100 start and then the other had to find them, One game could last all day and could range all over Balsall Heath.

When we in junior school, during the summer holdays there was a thing called play centre. It was supervised and held in our junior school playground. We had all sorts of games and were run really well.
Hopscotch
The farmers in his den.
Whats the time Mr Wolf
British Bulldog
I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it.

Most of these I had help with from my wife as I know they were Girls games.
Most of the time we played Baseball

Tell the truth, if you were anything like me you were playing doctors & nurses.

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Tell the truth, if you were anything like me you were playing doctors & nurses.

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phil
doctors and nurses wasnt a game

it was a training programme

Another game name I remember was Polly on the mopstick, not sure what it was about.

glad some one remembered farmers in the den, probably were girls games i know we played them in the infants and ju.
juniors. no one remember the good ship sails, will have to ask my welsh relies if they remember it as we did play it in wales.

as for doctors and nursers most of us are now playing 'carers' to our other halves

steph

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phil
doctors and nurses wasnt a game

it was a training programme

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When we in junior school, during the summer holdays there was a thing called play centre. It was supervised and held in our junior school playground. We had all sorts of games and were run really well.
Hopscotch
The farmers in his den.
Whats the time Mr Wolf
British Bulldog
I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it.

Most of these I had help with from my wife as I know they were Girls games.
Most of the time we played Baseball

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Quote: tca wrote in post #7

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phil
doctors and nurses wasnt a game

it was a training programme

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SO true LOL

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good thread is this...well remember playing marlies and skipping..hotscotch..rounders .playing noughts and crosses on the back gate using chalk..knock door run (tut tut) climbing trees.playing in old air raid shelters..helping our dad make go carts out of a plank of wood and a four old pram wheels..swinging from one bar to the other in the entries...tracking was great fun especially on the dark nights and even better in thick fog..3 ball juggling..oh and handstands...a quick tuck in of our dresses in our knickers handstand up the wall and then come down the wall with backed arched..blimey i couldnt even get up the wall now never mind come down it again......happy days..