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Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 02-09-2003, 21:22
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Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

My 13yr olds still play that now.
The old ones are still the best  :)

Still playing jacks too.
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 21-08-2003, 00:18
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

Certainly do, and playing games like filmstars or popstars, where you were given initials and had to guess who it was. then run to the wall first , then you were on!

Hey we're in the wrong column...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 20-08-2003, 22:39
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

Ah yes! And The pens which were just basically a stick with a replaceable nib on the end. And blotting paper. Never see that now do you!
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 20-08-2003, 21:06
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

Didn't they call those rubber rings coits or something like that?
First thing I remember from school PE is those small plastic balls with the the holes in.

Music & Movement & the Nutcracker...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 20-08-2003, 02:47
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

I remember the hoola hoop craze, back in the fifties, was the first one in our school to get one.
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 17-08-2003, 18:36
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

This is something the education dept should be looking at again, don't you think? giving kids the option to do it through school.

Different BB groups seem to have varying age limits don't know...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 17-08-2003, 18:17
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

They will be doing the  President's, Queen's and D of E through the BB, Harry, sorry for the misunderstanding :D
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 17-08-2003, 18:03
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

I agree totally about the parent thing. What makes me mad is when the facilities are there and parents can't be bothered, either for the sake of a few shillings, or A little bit of their time.

My...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 17-08-2003, 14:35
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

I remember having a pea shooter, they seemed to work very well with chewed up bus tickets ;). Does anyone remember having a spud-gun?

remember making tunes with folded  bus tickets too, and...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 17-08-2003, 14:18
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

Don't know about you ANNE, but it can be a bit intimidating someimes walking to the corner shop, and kids are sitting around in gangs, often with nothing better to do than make remarks to passers by....
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 16-08-2003, 23:45
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

The one I had was just one of those blow tube things, not the lethal weapon type with the elastics. (thought they were catapults ???) Didn't really do any damage, just caused annoyance!

And I've...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 12-08-2003, 03:28
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

I used to have a peashooter, used to take it to the flicks and sit near the back with it!  :o :o
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 09-08-2003, 17:25
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

cazzer i remember all of them i used to love the tremeloes singing silence is golden one of my favourate songs of the sixties dont know how chip sang so high

"Here comes my baby" by the Trems was...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 09-08-2003, 17:17
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

my dad has scene by scene photo's as he was a bit of a camera buff but we can't seem to find them, if we come across them i'll post them.

Droo...... do you remember the pathway from Lupin road...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 08-08-2003, 13:01
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

All those pop music mags, Janet.
Fab 208, Mirabelle, Melody Maker, NME etc.
Couldn't wait for Fridays to pick the NME up in case there was a piccy of my favourites in. Chip Hawkes of the Tremeloes...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 08-08-2003, 00:40
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

Yes I remember him coming to blow some chimney up! Wish I'd been there to see it. Didn't he do one at Scaitcliffe as well?
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 07-08-2003, 16:07
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

Remeber going down the hilly bit in Milnshaw Park near the main entrance (seemed steep then) on one of those. couldn't stop and ended up having stitches in my knee  :'(
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-08-2003, 20:15
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

I remember doing that with my shoe!!!!!! How about collecting firewood for bonfire night? we used to have a fire every year on owd bobs I think it was called, the field next to Gatty park/Milnshaw...
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 05-08-2003, 12:06
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

Hopscotch is probably one of the oldest ones going.

Remember doing knock-a-door-run my self,  too!!
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-08-2003, 12:44
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Re: Owd Pastimes

Playing "consequences"
Used to put some really rude things in.
;D
Forum: Nostalgia aint what it used to be... 04-08-2003, 12:41
Replies: 148
Views: 9,545
Posted By Caz
Post Owd Pastimes

Piece of brghtly coloured card on a string. used to wind the string round and round, then pull - made a lovely whirring sound.

3-balls, against the wall, allsorts of variations on the throw!
Can...
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