Who remembers scraps?

"went to sea'? And yes, I could do the doublers

Litterpicker

westendgirl I remember some of the skipping songs - one in particular mentions an American film actor called Wallace Beery! He died in the 1940s but we were still singing about him in the 1950s! Could anybody here manage to skip double ropes? I could never master it.

I’ve never heard of scraps. I was born in 58 , was this before my time ?

Sure do. I’m sure I had millions of them as a child. Used to keep them in albums. I wonder what happened to them? Loved collecting them and seopping them with friends.

I remember scraps, and I live in the Midlands. Maybe it's age rather than area related? I was 7 in 1960, so maybe it was a 1950s thing.

I don't remember swapping them. I think I must have hoarded them.

My favourite scraps were the Flower Fairies, especially the poppy and the forget-me-not.

Thanks yogitree. Great memories. Katek, I remember those cribs. Best Thread of the Day.

Great photos, yogitree. I wish I still had mine. I enjoyed trying to read the book text too!

yogitree

I will find my books of scraps and put a few photos on tomorrow. I am Scottish too - maybe the hobby didn't reach further south. All that bargaining, persuasion and decisions to be made - great fun!

I live as far south as you can get! Any further south and I’d be in the sea, which I can see from my window!
I loved scraps and I don’t think it was only a Scottish thing.

Katek,
We used to spend hours with our books of mottos. We didn’t call them scraps in my part of Scotland. The sets of angels and glitter mottos were very precious. Such a happy time spent curled up in the school outdoor sheds (even in winter) swapping sets or just looking at each other’s collections.

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And more - seems there were themes.

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Westendgirl and Maremia and everyone else, as promised here's a few photos.

I don't think we stuck them in scrap books but rather hid them in the pages of a hard backed book. This was in the mid forties while I was at junior school.
I do remember some of the words of the big rope skipping songs. Does anyone else ?

I remember as a little girl visiting some elderly ladies with my parents and being given a scrapbook to look at while the grown-ups talked. I thought it was a bit odd, but I dutifully sat quietly and looked at the pictures. Unfortunately I can’t remember what they were.

Maybe some of us were at the same Scottish primary school!

Can you even buy scrap books now? IIRC they were once widely available, in Smiths orWoolies.

Picture from Lost Edinburgh which shows a variety of scraps.

Scraps seem to have been a Scottish pastime going by the posts from Scottish grans!

Redblueandgreen

Was getting hungry then thinking about the ones we got from the chippy.

Ooh yes, nothing like a scrap (we call them scrumps where I am) sandwich made with white bread, an obscene amount of butter and lots of vinegar!

Will look out for that.

I will find my books of scraps and put a few photos on tomorrow. I am Scottish too - maybe the hobby didn't reach further south. All that bargaining, persuasion and decisions to be made - great fun!

They sometimes have them in stores at Christmas. Try Flying Tiger Copenhagen.
OOOps just spotted 'acquire'

Oh yes gillyknots, that Angel in the pink robe. She had a companion in a lovely shade of greeny blue. Loved the American Brides, but never managed to aquire any. There were Gainsburgh's ladies as well. Gorgeous memories.

I loved my scraps and the swap sessions. It was late 1950s - I changed schools at age 9 and definitely the scraps craze was at my original primary school. We kept them between the pages of a book (must have been a hardback). It looks as though the craze was dominant in Scotland and north of England, from the preceding posts.

I remember them (I'm Scottish), although I don't think I was ever very interested in them. I found the angel/cherub things quite creepy. Although to be honest, unless there were horses involved, I probably wouldn't have been interested anyway.