[Margaret Pilkington]

Outside games were:- whip and top(tops decorated with coloured chalk if you 6d to spare)......skipping games, cowboys and Indians...goodies and baddies......we made dens, played in the streams, caught sticklebacks, brought home hedgehogs which were banished from the house because they had fleas and red mites......hula hoops...hide and seek.....Knock and run, Swing from the lampost(or tree).

Inside games:- paper planes, thrown from the top of the stairs, hunt the thimble.....the usual board games.....except we usually were negligent in taking care of the dice, could never find one.

We didn't have the beetle game(a friend of mine did though) but played a game called kipper....a large fish shape was torn from a newspaper and another newspaper was used to make the fish move by hitting it with another rolled up newspaper...... we had races.......there was much cheating and falling out......Ma would rush in gather up the fish, hit us with the rolled up newspaper and throw the whole lot on the fireback.......game over!