Games we played when we were small

Doctors and Nurses!

petallus! Don't go there!!!

Playing shops on bombed building site in East End London -playing up and down the City Road In and Out Of The Eagle (as lived only few hundred yards from pub & parents drank there)
Up the wall where we did handstands and skipping:-
Vote Vote vote for dear old Churchill
Patsy my doll who had a hole bored through her mouth on Christmas Day by my dad as I wanted to put a dummy in her mouth!!
Ball games and when ball went down someones area (basement garden) us kids would call One Two Three A Lary My balls down the airy and then with a bit of luck it would be thrown back up to us.

we played skipping games in the middle of the road, which at the time led to nowhere. Mum still lives there and it's now a rat run.

Most of the time we would climb the back fence into the fields beyond and make dens in the long grass, either playing detectives or taking our dolls and playing "house" in the spring we would go fog spawning in the canal........

ah happy days

Oh, doesn't it make you wish you could go back.

I loved frogspawning too.

It was always sunny, wasn't it?

I remember deep thick fluffy snow and making large snowmen, one of which looked like queen Victoria. We put old woollen socks over our shoes to stop us from slipping. We had rosy cheeks and cold hands.
We would then come in to the open fire and roast chestnuts on a shovel
Toast crumpets and bread in front of the flames.
Finally go to bed, tired but happy and would sleep until morning.

How the memories come flooding back.Yes I played most of those games mostly on the street - hopscotch on the pavement slabs,marbles in the gutter.
There was a claypit in a nearby field.My sister and I scooped a bucketful of clay -made clay cakes decorated with beads,broken crockery etc.and then set up shop to sell them. Such fun!!

Hopscoth, 2 balls up the wall, hide and seek, marbles, black jacks, snap, skipping on my own or with 2 friends turning the rope.
Favourite skipping song:
On the mountain stands a lady who she is I do not know,
all she wants is gold and silver all she wants is a nice young man, so come in (friends would pick a name).
Then when will they marry
What will she wear How many children Will they be happy
something like that anyway...

I remember my friend (who was a bit older than me) used to sing a song that
was popular then Running Bear Loves Little White Dove and she used to do all the actions I thought it was wonderful.

Happy Days it only you could go back and know what you know now!