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I think my favourite pastime was reading Enid Blyton. I used to spend my pocket money every week on buying a paperback of the Secret Seven, the Famous Five or Mallory Towers.

My older sister spent her pocket money on singles and we (and our two friends) used to play them endlessly on the record player in my sister’s bedroom.

So that’s Enid Blyton and the Beatles ...

I used to collect mini soldiers and would spend hours and hours standing them all up in a big battle scene. When my dad got home from work he'd delight in knocking them down much to my dismay (but secretly, I loved it).

Running down the lane every Saturday morning to exchange my books at the library...before horse riding..

I loved anything to do with water - rockpooling and mudlarking in the river were my favorites

Playing skipping games with my friends either in the playground or in the parks at weekends

My favourite game outside with friends at home or in the school playground was “elastics” and also hopscotch. On a wet day or whenever we played inside, my favourite was Monopoly. I saved my pocket money for ages to buy my own game and one day my sister lent it to her friend without telling me! I was devastated when they returned it with the board half chewed by their big dog?

I remember vividly the joy I got from my 1st Scalextric set as a child.I played with it with others for hours so I guess it brought out the competitive streak I still have to this day.

We used to play cards around the kitchen table. Some games needed money to bet, so we would be given pennies from Mum's jar. She always made sure she got them all back!

My favourite pastime was playing dominoes with my grandfather.

I used to play outside with my friends in the long summer holidays, we built a swing with rope and an old tyre, hours of fun

I had a toy called Hugo Master of disguises which I adored. You could stick scars, pimples, beards, glasses, false noses, in fact anything on him. He was so ugly but I adored him. I wonder what happened to him.

Walking the lanes and fields in somerset with my grandfather sucking nutalls mintoes and picking bluebells and cowslips by the railway line. (That was in the days before all these places got all these security fences)

Yes, we always used to play Monopoly with my brother and parents when i was at home younger and then my own children played Monopoly when they stayed with their grandparents, my mum and dad when it was school holidays, but i think now there are newer versions, but dont know. Our board game is in our loft which was the original one.

I lso used to buy those books where you got a paper doll and you put clothes on them, used to play with that for hours as far as I remember.

During the long summer holiday we used to build dens in a field alongside our houses. We knotted long grass around it for walls and flattened the centre and were convinced we couldn't be seen. We even mapped the field with the paths that crossed it. There was main path going from corner to corner and horseshoe path that was pitted with the marks of the horses people rode along it.

One year we dug down in a friends coal cellar and used corrugated iron to make a roof but that was a short lived project as the younger brother cut his head on the corrugated iron. A pit dwelling started in our garden met a similarly short life as we had dug up vegetables in the process.

Our imaginations could turn any of these into headquarters for all sorts of games. Cowboys and Indians, detectives, spies... they all had their time.

Making dens or ' housies ' anywhere and everywhere - on the tenement landings, in the woods, the old air raid shelters or just in the house, using clothes horse, chairs and blankets, or even under the table. I remember begging my mother and granny for bits and pieces to decorate or furnish these dens - often in competition with my cousins or friends.

I loved playing hide and seek with my elder cousin
Games of dominos with my dad
But my greatest love as a child was books and loved the St Clair's and Mallory towers books by Enid blyton and my weekly Bunty comic moving on to Jackie as a teenager

Playing anything outside - peepers with chalked numbers on the pavement and a flat stone - the peeves, rounders in the street, taking a jug to the farm to be filled up with milk, running over the fields to spend the day ‘up the dams’ or in the woods.

I used to collect scraps! I placed them in a scrap book and the most exciting ones had glitter!!

Elastic skipping. Loved it because i could play it with friends or my sister. Or if no friends around i could use a couple of dining room chairs.

I used to enjoy playing Dungeons & Dragons, but who has that amount of time now...

I loved been out on my bike just riding round with my school friends.

Playing with my 'Dangerous Boys' -( my older brother and his friends) who laid a scaffold plant across a pond in the garden and got me to cycle across it and then up a scaffold plank balanced on a log ( like a see saw), so it tipped and I cycled down the other side! I did fall off both numerous times before completing the course wet and bruised.
Gill

I loved meals in the garden using some old saucepans my dad dug up when gardening. I would make stews, soups and even cakes if the sun was hot enough to dry and set them. As well as the necessary mud and water I would add leaves, twigs, pebbles, big stones (for dumplings), petals, grass etc.

"WHOT" cards, do anyone remember them? I still have them and my Grandad made a little cardboard case for them to go into. Myself and sisters loved playing WHOT. Oh such memories!