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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.

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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.

Cops n robbers.

I bet you went a a a a a a a a a!

I couldt lasoo anything but I tried.

I forgot about the broom horse. Playing horsey.The clatter is made when it fell on the yard . I used our hard & soft brooms & line props to make show jumps & athletes' jumps, long jumps. I put a plank on a ball like in the circus, to balance on. "You'll break your neck get off it!"

I remember My Black Country Nan saying how winderful Lewis's Christmas grotto was, every year, but she never took me.

My mum bought her wedding dress there after taking a wrong turn out of the station . I went with dad on the train maybe in the 80s we noted how friendluer it was, to Cov, & him a Coventry kid. My stepdaughter took her children this month by train, as she wanted to eat a sushi in a restaurant...