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I remember miners coming home from the shifts on washday monday and if they were walking across the cobbles back to the houses, if the washing looked dirty or grubby they would cut the washing line so that the washing dragged on the floor and had to be washed again.


And the blokes in Hamstead village nicking coal from the coal siding on the way home from the boozer at night!
Drunk the money nicked the coal to keep the family warm.

I can remember going in to the miners "baths" in Hamstead - where they used to clean up after being underground. And using their shoe buffers to clean our shoes. And also going into the miners canteen with our biscuit money to buy a bread pudding and it was fabulous.

Brill a5 have added it to "Our trips down memory lane"" sticky!

So come on guys and gals let's have your childhood memories
I will Gather em up add them to that main sticky as we go.

What games did you play?
What toys did you play with?
Where did you live?

Share them with us ........breathe life into them again on here!

Very relevant to genealogy nowadays, I loved playing "Happy Familes" as a card game where 4 players had the cards divided up and then in turn asked someone for card you thought they might have to complete your family - this continued til you got a wrong request and the turn passed on until the winner could put down complete sets of families (face down)

No needless to say the families were Mr & Mrs + son & daughter;

So the names were like Mr Bun the Baker, Mrs Bun The Baker, Master Bun and Miss Bun...etc

We could compile a black country set and flog em to make money...............Mr Pick the Miner, or Mrs Chain the Maker, and Miss Pit the Bonker ( praps not)

you get the picture................ in those days though they tended to not stop at the classic 2 kids of the card game purpose!

That is a brilliant idea regional happy families! ha ha ha great I love it! Mr Yam Yam...ha ha ha and all the Yams

I used to love playing Cluedo, and monopoly and jigsaws..goodness I loved a jigsaw.
Card games too...we used to play games in those days...what happened?

But the one game I loved was elastic twist ...well I did do until one of the tuff girlies at my school wrapped it round my friends neck! and I was pulling one way to get it off me pal and this bully was pulling the other way! Me pal nearly passed out!


rough school that was ...I thought it was goin to be a good un cos it was approved..

no but it was really really rough...
hey and we used to fill a sock with a ball and bang it against a wall...anyone remember doing that?
"do you want a cigarette sir who sir me sir .".cant remember the rest

come on you lot what are your memories tell us...we wont tell anyone...

Nemo wrote:We could compile a black country set and flog em to make money...............Mr Pick the Miner, or Mrs Chain the Maker, and Miss Pit the Bonker ( praps not)

Nemo...still laffin...brilliant!

I had a favourite stuffed toy - a Koala Bear with bald ears ... I'd sucked all the fur off - ptooey!!!

Daisy chains ; one penny packets (old money) packed to bursting of broken crisps; blackjacks and gobstoppers;muffin the mule (no rude comments here);horse drawn milk carts - family arguments about who had to and collect the muck for the roses; rag and bone men; the queens coronation lasting foreveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr - what a bore; 2d(old money) saturday morning picture houses; the interlude on the tv - the potters wheel; Whirligig; Noddy books; plasticine; skipping, and skipping and skipping................................... ration books; stockpiling bags of sugar; taking back bags of empty beer bottles to the outdoor; ...............................

Kiss chase!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

& what should probably be in a separate posting - navy blue knickers and liberty bodices

cold feet in wellingtons in the snow; knicker elastic garters to hold yer socks up.........and bloody hair ribbons!