Ah Those Fabulous Fifties.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1224231/A-vanished-Britain-50-years-ago-country-doors-left-unlocked-children-played-street.html

[ichkeria]

Do the fifties weren’t all good then aog :-)

[rowanwitch]

Phone box...... and they had directories in them

[Sqad]

AOG...and what about those games...marbles, hop scotch, lurky and my favourite...Kiss Chase?

[Islay]

Those games are no different to what we played in the 70's - except perhaps lurky which sounds like something the dirty old man from down the street did!!

[Mamyalynne]

Was 'Lurky' the tin can game?

http://pub16.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=1318671680&;frmid=394&;msgid=1069885&cmd=show

[ummmm]

I played all those games in the 70s too

[Islay]

Surely not Ummm were we not all deliquents by then?

[Sqad]

Mamy...NO.

There was a lamp post that we all gathered around and one member stayed at the lampost whilst the others (maybe 8-10 in the gang) ran away and hid. The idea was to get back to the lamppost , touch it and shout "LURKY" without being touched by the " guard" who would shout after touching me "LURKY SQAD"
If this was played after dark, it was more exciting and the game ended when all the gang had got back to the post without being caught OR being tagged.
Good eh?

[Sqad]

YEEEEs! ummmm is back.

[kvalidir]

Like Ackie 123 then Sqad, we played all those as well and I'm millenial x

[Mamyalynne]

Lots of games had regional names, marbles and hop scotch are still played in some playgrounds.

[Sqad]

Girls.........I didn't say that those games were confined to the 50's, I was just mentioning them. Good on yer for keeping up the traditions of the 50's.

[tamborine]

Everone was slim. What was the song of a linup & 1st person's arm on wall that everyone threaded thru till they were in a knot?

[Mamyalynne]

[tamborine]

Thanx mamya - My gkids games are on their ipads :(

[rowanwitch]

There were some warped games as well, including one involving breath holding and a tight squeeze to make the victim faint. Another craze was hypnosis I was quite good at it, but looking back it was so dangerous. Chicken cross the road, daring each other to jump from the rear platform of buses, oh yes and picking on anyone different. That was a favourite game. Stretching fishing line from lamppost to lamppost across the road to knock people off bikes. Another dangerous, potentially lethal game. As townies denied the fun of scrumping some friends decided shop lifting was an alternative. Oh yes those were the days....

[ummmm]

Did you miss me Sqad? :-)

[Prudie]

I played that game Lurky but we called it Linky (and we used a tree).

[tamborine]

Reading early pages of this thread are horrifying & I wonder at some rearing. My parents worked to raise 5 kids & had their 60th anniversary. Never beaten or raped but mutual respect. I was wed for 40y till OH died. We honoured our vows thru thick & thin. My kids are reared similarly and dont diss or harm their partners or kids.

[Garaman]

Go on, I'll make it 200 - check out the men's fashion in 1956!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-43782267