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Wendy
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Welcome to the forum Andrew and thanks for sharing your memories.
Marvellous, wonderful Micky, they seemed to play quiter then. We have a créche next door and they scream at the top of their voices, and shout with deeper menacing voices, imitate screaming sirens without stopping, the woman who runs it even said they are rowdier and worse behaved than when she started whenever that was. 70's 80's maybe. One girl screams "dya wann pardy all say long," they have life sized 'toys' which they play with for a bout 3 seconds then go on to something else, they are very destrutive she says, rude and cheeky and call her by her first name. Not even Aunty so and so. One adult per 3 children. The children are always stripped off. But they do have activities like drawing outside and planting things.Here's a little video of games we used to play :-[video=youtube_share;K3UZEQIDdBg]https://youtu.be/K3UZEQIDdBg[/video]
My mum told me they used to get an old oil can and put parafin in and set fire to it with old rags and run round the streets with it on a rope.We did not have many toys to play with in the 1940s so we often made our own and another forum thread reminded me of when we made a 'gas works'. This was no problem to us as we were children quite happily making fire cans as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
We had read in a library book that town gas was made by heating coal in a closed container so we got a golden syrup tin, bodged a hole in the lid and fitted a metal tube. We then filled the can with small pieces of coal and after tightly fitting the lid we placed the can over a fierce fire and after about 10 minutes a white vapour-like smoke came out of the tube. The smoke burned with a yellow flame when we lit it and we were making our own town gas ...
so we got a golden syrup tin, bodged a hole in the lid and fitted a metal tube. We then filled the can with small pieces of coal and after tightly fitting the lid we placed the can over a fierce fire and after about 10 minutes a white vapour-like smoke came out of the tube. The smoke burned with a yellow flame when we lit it and we were making our own town gas ...
Never had one, not even the starter kit..would have been like winning the lottery!!Mecanno sets?