Remember When...

[Greensleeves]

That reminds me, Gilly, of me and my brothers playing Cowboys in the lounge when the weather was bad.  My elder brother would ride on the back of the settee, whilst my younger brother and I had an arm each.  We somehow attached rope so we had reins and cushions for saddles.  Great fun.

Another occupation which we enjoyed was when my mother wanted the lino polished.  She would apply the polish and then tie dusters to our feet and let us go and 'skate' about the room with the furniture pulled back and the rugs removed.  When we had finished she would just finish it off with a light mopping!  The hall was particularly good as we could take a run at it and get up quite a speed.

[Meezer]

We had a summer galloping round on home made hobby horses - a broom handle topped with a stuffed sock with button eyes and two fingers from an old glove stuffed and sewn on as ears! I don't think any of the bits were necessarily colour co-ordinated

[Treetotal]

I also remember playing tiddly-winks which often came in a compendium of games which we all played with on Christmas day...I also loved playing my scooter...I have found the game I was looking for which I think was based on a TV game:

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/christianmontone/4282866438/

Carol

[groom]

I'd completely forgotten the riding the back of the settee playing cowboys and indians - I don't think many of today's pieces of furniture would stand up to such rough treatment. We made hobby horses as well and kites out of bits of cane and newspaper.

My friend's mother had an old bike that we all learnt to ride - we spent hours taking it in turns to ride round the block, there never seemed to be many cars about.

[stevew101]

Did anyone else have a Stylophone?....I drove everyone crazy with it

Carol

Did you know that they have started selling the stylophone again.  What memories.

http://stylophonica.com/news.html

Can anyone remember the guns which fired dried peas.  Ouch, they hurt.

Steve

[SwissGill]

I remember when "pre-war" was the be and end all. A teacher gave me a box of crayons and unfortunately I left them at the bus stop.

The year was probably 1949 and my Mum was horrified that I had lost them. It seemed that "pre-war" products were far more treasured than "after war products".

[stevew101]

On television - Watch with Mother - Woodentops - Bill & Ben

[Maggie.]

Can anyone remember the guns which fired dried peas.  Ouch, they hurt.

Peashooters - you loaded the pea and blew it out?  My brother and his friends all had those and yes they did hurt.

Did anyone have comb orchestras where you put a piece of that old fashioned hard toilet paper over a comb and hummed a tune though it?  The noise must have driven our mothers insane.

[Treetotal]

Did anyone else have a Stylophone?....I drove everyone crazy with it

Carol

Did you know that they have started selling the stylophone again.  What memories.

http://stylophonica.com/news.html

Can anyone remember the guns which fired dried peas.  Ouch, they hurt.

Steve

Thanks for the link Steve...amazing...Don't remember them just cap and spud guns....and the cannons that fired match sticks.

Carol