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Making a camp with old sheets hanging over the bushes in our back garden -
and eating our tuck inside.

Definitely building dens and camps in the local common, felt like summer lasted forever back then as well!

Me and my friends riding our bicycles with my dog running alongside up to our local reservoirs and going swimming. We would spend all day there in the summer months.

Playing in the woods near my childhood home

Building Dens. Using old pieces of carpet or carpet tiles, and old net curtains to make dens out of old tree branches and wood. Great fun!

We used to love playing What's the time Mr Wolf - never tired of it!

top and whip (with chalk)

Pond dipping and then using my father’s old microscope to examine the results

Going for bike rides with my friends and taking jam sandwiches and bottles go orange squash and not coming home until tea time the summer never seemed to end.

My best friend and me used to go cycling or exploring for hours in the beautiful local countryside, We would take a few jam sandwiches and a lemonade drink made up with Eiffel Tower powder! If we were going to climb the Malvern hills we would fill our bottles at the well, We were probably only 10 or 11 when we started our adventures!

I love building a den with a rug on the floor and a bed sheet pegged onto two garden chairs
I'd stay in that den for hours and hours.

Climbing trees and playing "catch" with my cousins on said trees. Many a tumble but, oh, such fun!

Damming streams

exploring nature - especially wild flowers

Having water fights in the garden

we used to love making 'recipes' with mud, water, grass, moss and anything else we could find in the rocks near the river (not too close!) - that was back when you could go out in the morning and home for tea and mum wouldn't worry!!!

Helping at lambing time, feeding orphan lambs and watching the sick ones come to life in the warmth from the Aga.

Tending the tomatoes with my grandfather in his greenhouse, I can still remember the wonderful smell! We would then take his dog for a walk on the beach opposite his home - happy days...

Playing with a whip and top. Chalking different designs on the top and see how long you could make it spin. Probably banned these days as whip too dangerous!

Apart from climbing trees & making dens in the woods behind our house with my brothers & friends, I always looked more forward to going to my dad’s allotment everyday with him, helping to plant new seeds, looking after them as they were growing & helping to dig them up etc when they were ready.

Paddling in the sea and playing on the beach. I grew up near the sea.

Riding my bike, once I was deemed grown-up enough to pass my trike to my little brother. and got a two-wheeler for my 6th birthday.

We used to play four squares in the street that I lived growing up. Chalked onto the pavement the big square then it was divided into four smaller squares. Four of us could play at a time letting the ball bounce once then hitting it into another square until someone was declared the winner or somehow it had gone over the hedge of the neighbour's garden. And it was me they pushed forward to retrieve the ball, being the youngest and very shy, 'Please Mrs Ellis can I have my ball back?' Otherwise, it would end up in the bin, sliced in two. (Maybe i'm still traumatised, a childhood memory I won't forget)

Always making dens, an old sheet and some old pillows, kept us entertained for hours

definitely frisbee (still play now). My brother and I would play in every free moment,-making up tricks and gathering crowds! Holidays on the beaches were the best. Great memories.