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Hopscotch, peever and dead man falls,
kerby, tig and games with balls.
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| Uploaded | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 28/08/2005 | Games We Played We must have been a weird bunch in Castlemilk where we moved from Oatlands. The boys also played peever, as th... | Saucy the Pheonix (Norman Ross) |
| 06/08/2005 | The Strangest of Games As youngsters we played the strangest of street games you could imagine. It could only have been played by Gla... | tommy Mac (Thomas Mc Sorley) |
| 06/08/2005 | Play-time There were different songs for the various games that we played and woe betide you if you muddled them up. You... | tazza (tazza macleod) |
| 04/07/2005 | Ball Games We grew up in Kinning Park and went to Scotland Street School in the 1950s. We didn't have any money. A ball... | weejeanau_1347@hotma (jean marshall) |
| 21/05/2005 | "Sonny Pits" During the '40s and particularly in summer my pals and I regularly visited the Sand Quarry off Hamilton Road, ... | Rockajock (Tony Jaconelli) |
| 29/03/2005 | Childhood Chance is a funny thing and it can happen just by chance. When I came to stay in 8 Gorbals Street on top... | peter.howden (peter howden) |
| 06/03/2005 | Chap Door Runaway Growing up in Glasgow's East End, in Cranhill, 1952-69, I remember a version of chap door run away. We called... | ricky1824 (richard smith) |
| 28/02/2005 | Back Court Concerts Did you ever have a back court concert? And the money raised was sent to Pat Roller at the Daily Record in Hop... | jackandjean (Jack Middleton) |
| 27/02/2005 | Oor Wee Shop It would start with somebody saying, "Come on, we'll play at a wee shop." We never set out to rival Galbraith'... | sweenie (Jean Kendal) |
| 11/02/2005 | Tig, Chassie and Hide and Go Seek It was very important to play outside and particular outdoor games. No matter what the weather was doing. Circ... | mandurah (tazza macleod) |
| 02/02/2005 | Silver Paper I was sitting having a coffee at the kitchen bench while listening to Radio 4 the other day. Absent-mindedly, ... | sweenie (Jean Kendal) |
| 31/01/2005 | Kick the Can I remember all those years ago when it was safe to play in the street. One particular game was called kick the... | bigstarsky (Iain Wilson) |
| 17/01/2005 | Beds (Peever) The safest and longest game to play from morning, noon til night on the streets and more correct pavements in ... | mandurah (tazza macleod) |
| 08/01/2005 | Rounders in the Street One of our favourite games was rounders. We used to play this in the street, Cockmuir Street. I think the ... | kellycunn (irene cunningham) |
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