Do you know what shuffle board is Rosie?We used to play Shove Ha'penny on holiday if it rained. A couple of weeks ago at a car boot sale I bought a proper Shove Ha'penny board for 50p.....no-one knew what it was!!
I have got some old halfpennies but the rules on the internet say that one side must be polished flat, I don't want to be that serious about it though. We only played for the fun of it.
rosie.
My memories of the brook include the tree at the side of it which we tied a rope to one of the branches and used to swing out over the water and the jump off back onto dry land. This was fine until one day on my second swing another lad jumped on the rope with me and of course all momentum was lost and we ended up in the brook. I'm ashamed to say that in my temper when we were back on the bank I shoved the other lad (name escapes me) into some stingers. His howling didn't make me dry however!We were so lucky to have that rough field, it had a large deep brook running through it - we built dams, and dared each other to jump the brook, and often fell in.
One other game we played was to stand on a bridge and drop sticks in the brook to see who's stick went fastest and farthest.
Hi Dimmy - Regarding our playfield, maybe you remember when they built prefabs on half it.My memories of the brook include the tree at the side of it which we tied a rope to one of the branches and used to swing out over the water and the jump off back onto dry land. This was fine until one day on my second swing another lad jumped on the rope with me and of course all momentum was lost and we ended up in the brook. I'm ashamed to say that in my temper when we were back on the bank I shoved the other lad (name escapes me) into some stingers. His howling didn't make me dry however!