Street Games.

[Theland]

What street games did you p!at as a kid?
Do you remember all of the rules?

[Atheist]

Skilly in Wigan (aka Dunden in Prescot).

[Bobbisox1]

Hopscotch , skipping ropes, two baller,kick the can
All good fun

[haras2]

In the fifties, we played a game called Last To Touch
The Pump
We would be playing in the school yard when some one would shout "Last To..... and everybody would dash to the old water pump (which still worked).The last one there would be "IT" for the game of touch tag which ensued

[Peter Pedant]

top to bottom waaaaall!

[Prudie]

Hopskotch, Linky (hide and seek), French skipping, Two ball, hand clapping (don't know the name of that).

[woofgang]

farmers in his den, Poor Jenny sits a weeping, Grandmother's footsteps, hopscotch, various skipping games, chain "it"

[pastafreak]

Tag, jumping rope, hopscotch, hide and seek, leapfrog.

[fcc]

Knockout Wembley,One Kick.

[Bobbisox1]

To this Prudie?

[pastafreak]

Oh...I forgot about hand clapping. We played patticake...and another. The name escapes me.

[emmie]

It, British Bulldog, French skipping, though i hardly remember that, skipping, kiss chase, hand clapping games, hopscotch, and quite a few more our door games.

[Prudie]

No Bobbi, there were several ditties, I do recall 'oh can you wash a sailor's shirt and hang it on the line...'

[Bobbisox1]

Can't say I've heard of that Prudie

[-SharonA-]

Two balls up the wall, using one hand and clapping.

[emmie]

remember that bobbi,

[emmie]

that should say remember that Sharon

[Mamyalynne]

Two balls and even three balls was my favourite and also 'Alley alley O' - we used to get in a real giddy tangle with that one.


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[emmie]

don't remember all the words mamy but remember that too

[Ken4155]

'Nearest The Wall'; this game could accommodate as many players who wanted 'in' and basically revolved around one's skill in tossing a penny toward the wall and the player with the nearest coin, won all the pennies. Yep, even as a kid i was having a punt :-)

[Dagman]

We played cannon, knocking down three clothes pegs with a tennis ball then trying to reassemble them before the other team tags you with the ball. Another was kerby where you used a football and stood opposite one another across the street and tried to get the ball to rebound back off the pavement edge to you.