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I have some info on the home itself. Plus my Birth Mother's account. However if you scroll back to Louisa's post in 2011 she advises how you might obtain a copy.

Is that a music venue & do you know the line up?

There was a really good play in April which I couldn't get to see called the Fighting Irish about an Irish boxer living here,. going there & the search finding his identity in both countries. By Coventry Playwright, Jamie McGough. If it ever comes your way

Blind I meant.

There was a macabre rhyming game played by older girls not sure about boys, that escaped me, called Four Blibd Fathers It was the girls who were caught in Kiss Catch, only the boys did the chasing.

When someone thought they were not tigged, or on, we would chant, "On or not playin!'

They never heard of Cat's Cradle either , Or Two Little Dickie Birds. Girls at school made intricate patterns jumping and turning with a long loop of say knicker elastic.The Little one likes the hand games, Here's' The Church Here's The Steeple etc, Here's The Lady's Knives & Forks.Here's The...

Was that when you all got on a mound & pushed all the other kids off?

Grandson was given one. 5 quid! Mine came free with cornflakes sometimes, I loved the cornflakes paper they were wrapped in. You weighted the nose with a penny in some.

Oldies

I have just taught our granddaughter, My Mother Said, I last did it circ 1964. I can't remember the clapping sequence. I also performed The Clapping Song. Stepdaughter found an updated version of both. The woke brigade changed Gypsies to fairies. Stepdaughter taught her A Sailor Went To Sea Sea...

And when you held hands facing each other and spun round, we called them skiddies

And hopping Jinny

In my parents Good Housejeeping book I saw Kiss In A ring' . A small rubber ring suspended.If you touched the ring before kissing, you were out. Imagine the woke brigade with kissing on tge lips. we had these rings at school. The book contained parlour games.

Pin the tail on the donkey & kiss in the dark.

Off ground tig which Nan called Tig on high ground.

We made wooden flat boats at school with a hardboard propeller with a rubber band turned to make it propel.

Oh and Kiss Catch.

The girls never played war. Or Stag or went in the murder tunnel. The mixed games we played were singing games, five stones, hopscotch, never tig I dont think, but we played Queenio Cokeyo Whose Got The Ballyo, in our case a Stick io. With my Brummie cousins. I never played it before so is it a...

sorry about the triplicate post. I used to make gunpowder from grass seeds.