Ludo, tiddley winks ... remember the old games ?

[oldtimer]

Hi!

This is how I remember it -

Bronco Layne had a pain so they sent for Wagon Train,
Wagon Train was no good so they sent for Robin Hood ,
Robin Hood lost his bow so they sent for Ivanhoe,
Ivanhoe killed a man so they sent for Big Cheyenne
Big Cheyenne was having tea so they sent for Laramie,
Laramie lost his cargo so they sent for Wells Fargo,
Wells Fargo lost its hunter so they sent for Billy Bunter,
Billy Bunter was too large so they sent for - I'm in charge!

I'm in charge was presumably Bruce Forsythe!!

[behindthefrogs]

I used to love playing with my brother's Meccanno set (he was free to play with any of my dolls - funny he never took up my offer....!)

And I loved it when we used to get the Mamod steam engines out - I can still tmell the fumes from the stuff we used to burn and waiting to hear the hissing sound of the water boiling , then the test-spin of the fly-wheel (will it "catch" this time?).

I still have one of those in my cupboard which we bought for a shilling in a jumble sale when my son was about ten years old.  It will soon be time to reveal it to my grandson.

David

[stoney]

I remember many of the games already mentioned, but don't think anyone has yet mentioned the "hundred-a-side" football games that the boys used to indulge in, often using a battered old tennis ball. To my mind, that must have been much harder than using a regular sized football!

Going back to the "seasonal" pursuits - I used to hate it when the kids created slides on the frozen playground puddles - I once fell badly on one of these as a child and literally could not walk for a week. Even now (in my dotage) I dread the frosty mornings and won't take the dog out until it's thawed a bit, in case he pulls me over!

[stoney]

I used to love playing with my brother's Meccanno set (he was free to play with any of my dolls - funny he never took up my offer....!)

And I loved it when we used to get the Mamod steam engines out - I can still tmell the fumes from the stuff we used to burn and waiting to hear the hissing sound of the water boiling , then the test-spin of the fly-wheel (will it "catch" this time?).

I still have one of those in my cupboard which we bought for a shilling in a jumble sale when my son was about ten years old.  It will soon be time to reveal it to my grandson.

David

We used to have hours of fun with them. My brother bought a traction engine model some years ago which he brought round and set up on our patio - my son was fascinated with it as it hissed and spat and trundled round on the slabs!

[oldtimer]

We used to have counting out games at school too. As well as eeny meeny miny mo, which every one seems to know, we had another that I remember -

Eenie meenie macaraca
Rare rah dominaca
Knickerbocka lollypoppa
Om pom push.

When I asked people at work if they remembered it, no-one could

[marylou]

Oh the memories...............my brothers meccano that I just loved though can't remember making anything special out of it. He never let me have a go with his crystal set......what a meanie..............lol
All the board games used to come out at Christmas.....ludo, snakes and ladders and lottor -home version of bingo/lottery. My brother had an old conjuring set (I've got it now Dad's died - brother didn't want anything). It was always Dad who was the conjurer and I seem to remember actually believing that he shoved a nail through his finger..................lol
The Man from Laramie ?  Oh I remember that ! 
Suddenly I'm starting to feel a little bit old..................lol

[crozier]

Oh Mary Lou, not The Man from Laramie with Jimmie Stewart! Oh, no!
Laramie for me can only be Slim Sherman and Jess Harper (John Smith and Robert Fuller) There was also the great Hoagy Carmichael - my Dad went to hear him perform at the London Palladium - and lovely cuddly Spring Byington.
Laramie rules!

[01debbie]

Sliding this topic sideways just a little...there was a rhyme, about 1960 I guess. Skipping rhyme or something of that kind?
Someone lost something...what?

Lucy Locket lost her pocket???  Just trying to rmember the rest now...

[oldtimer]

Hi

I remember it as a nursery rhyme, but not as a game -

Lucy Locket lost her pocket,
Kitty Fisher found it;
But ne'er a penny was there in it,
But the ribbon round it.