BermondseyBoy

I had one of these toys. I sometimes think my parents did not know me. I suspect that they are no longer sold LOL

I even played indoors with this. Amazing my siblings all have two good eyes.

There was life before teabags

I have a memory of the London lamplighter. Believe it or not there are still 1400 street gas lamps in London and 5 lamplighters to look after them

The helicopter parents would love this



And this one involved high heat and molten lead

I had a variant on knock down ginger. I grew up on a very narrow street (Riddell). I would take Mom's clothesline and tie it to a neighbor's door knocker and then string it across the road to the house opposite and tie it to their knocker. Then knock and both and run like hell. Neither neighbor coul...

Good old washing board.

This is how math worked before computers

Begginton wrote:We played a similar game to jacks, with little cubes of what looked like colours, ridges chalk, called aligobs. Not sure of spelling as never seen it in writing.
Kiwi.

I played Aligobs all the time. Wow, what a memory

These are alien to our millennials