TaxiDriver Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Was anyone foolish enough to do the two big bolts wound into a nut full of match heads then tossed into the air (high into the air for additional running time :-) ). Never found both bolts, ever. YEP Done in the dark evenings when all the neighbourhood kids used to play out after tea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Can anyone remember 'booby' arrows? what were booby arrows ..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobbyathome Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 biro markers on your girlfriends tum pointing upwards to show you where next to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mice! Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Pocket money. 6d. Saturday morning pictures and a 1/4 lb of aniseed balls and you're nigh on brassic. But help was at hand in the form of the army. One of my playgrounds was Woodbury Common and as we lived at the higher side of town even if the wind was in the wrong direction you could still see the thunderflashes go off. First thing next morning it was on your bike laden down with back packs, side packs and any other ex WD packs you'd managed to acquire. Knew the place like the back of my hand so was aware of where the Bren Gunners had been placed so it didn't take too long to fill said packs, strap them on the bike anywhere you could and yourself and free wheel all the way back into town. Talk about overloaded, there was no way with the weight you could stop if anything got in your way. Naturally, every other kid was at it so it paid not to be too greedy, making sure you were the first to get to the scrappy as once he twigged what was coming the price of 303 cases fell considerably. That sounds great, can't imagine that happening these days, kids running around on an army base, probably think you were terrorists 😄 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobbyathome Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 days of innocence indeed when I was 11 I was shipped out to my relatives in Camberley in surrey that was when it was all woods and a council estate and army grounds me and my cousins climbed over the fence and used the army grounds as a playground I found a bullet belt full of unused bullets and wore it round my shoulder like a true Mexican bandit I was so upset when I went home with it showed my dad and he was fine with it took it out all proud and thinking I was the local hard gangster only to be pulled up by the local plod taken home given a rucking in front of my dad by plod and then a clip round the ear for being stupid when they went needless to say they took the ammo good times eh ha ha and don't even get me started on the soap box carts we made with pram wheels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampire Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 They were immense . Did they really go a couple of hundred yards, or have I got wagon wheel syndrome? Yeah they really did go that far,ish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampire Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Guy i know who came from wrong bit of manchester,he is about 70,was telling me about his youth in the alleys and how they all had Davie crocket hats !,his was a tabby one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tetlee Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) I wonder if there are still 'seasons' in school? I don't remember the order, but I do remember there were defined periods for various activities. Marbles which everyone played in the playground until the bell went, then there was a Conker season obviously. Cigarette cards seemed to involve a period of a few weeks trading then that would fade and blowing small pieces of chewed blotting paper through a school milk straw became the rage. British Bulldog season was usually stopped before any fatalities, but whacking each other with school scarves tightly twisted into weapons was popular during winter terms. Edited September 5, 2017 by tetlee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oowee Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 No one has mentioned bangers Holding a match tight to the head so you could light it whilst riding your bike. Putting them in milk bottles or clay and chucking them in the pond. Making the jenie that struggled to light until you put a pile of match heads on it and took your eyebrows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobbyathome Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 bangers ha ha that was another October fun start making your guy pestering everyone at the station coming home from work penny for the guy mate as soon as you had your swag buying bangers and jumping jax the jumping jax normaly got thrown at the girls when they were all in a group sending them scattering and in tears and the bangers got lit and put in a hand made gun( piece of copper pipe bent like an elbow ? light put in flame first and aim it at yer mate band and laugh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bear-uk Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Tiger tails and fake bullet holes from the local Esso station. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 what were booby arrows ..? They were arrows (usually homemade) and had cord/twine wrapped around the flight end. You then threw it like a spear and it would (hopefully) fly some distance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ips Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 I had one of those action man copies and yes it was called Tommy Gunn I think. He was exactly the same size so the equipment and clothes could be interchanged. Remember the Action Man parachute with long ripcord so you could throw it high in the air (or drop it off of a building) and pull the cord. Never really worked. Or the deep sea diving outfit with the rubber tube you could blow down to make bubbles when in the bath! I had loads of Action Man stuff. Always wanted one of the tanks though but never got one. There is a toy museum near me. Haven't been for years but will try to go again soon. Tommy !!!! I knew I wasn't dreaming it. Yes I had a parachute and your right it never worked, not when I chucked it down the stairs anyway 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Was anyone foolish enough to do the two big bolts wound into a nut full of match heads then tossed into the air (high into the air for additional running time :-) ). Never found both bolts, ever.Me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 use to put an old hardback (dandy or beano Xmas addition) on an old rollerskate.Sit on it and race down the old Colliery back streets.Then moved up to a Bogie,big pram wheels on the back and little wheels on the front.Got blasted off me dad for overtaking him in his old Wolsley & then crashing into old Mrs Palister. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Tiger tails and fake bullet holes from the local Esso station. "put a tiger in your tank" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 I remember the esso garages used to do loads of collectables.Football coins and Olympic stickers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Tape a six inch length of copper pipe to the end of your air-rifle barrel, put a pellet up the spout, load the tube with a lit banger, aim at a 45 degree elevation in the general direction of one's younger brother, count to three and pull the trigger Perfection was an air-burst a couple of feet away from him. Even better was bracketing him with quick succession shots. Dear heavens, the stuff we used to do and surprisingly survived Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 I think it was Esso or maybe Texaco that did a collection of British Army cap badges. Esso did the small busts of footballers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted September 5, 2017 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 world cup willy............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaymo Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Lawn darts--- had hours of fun with mates running over the lawn chucking them high in the air at each other...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moor man Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Mmmmm......jumpers for goalpost eh? Great thread this..... Making camps in the woods, scrumping the neighbours apples, we made parachutes for our action men an chucked em out the upstairs window... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 Dust bin lid for wickets,****** the cat,bird nesting,knocky nine doors.Nicking empty pop bottles from the back of the shop & taking them back round the front for threpance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davyo Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 (edited) Lived in a Colliery,and leading up to bonfire night we used to build a bonnie.They was the Easties,Westies,Southies and the Northies (I was a Northie).We used to go raid each other's bonnies,a raiding party would go out and we'd leave a few behind to guard our Bonnie while we where away. Word used to go around school that one of the gangs was planning a raid that night.We'd lie in wait with a load of old tyres from the quarry and out catapults.When they approached we'd bool the tyres over the hill and rain stones down on them with our gats.We'd be shouting "ziga zaga ziga zaga hoy hoy hoy" "you'll never take our bonnie" Edited September 5, 2017 by Davyo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ips Posted September 5, 2017 Report Share Posted September 5, 2017 I had a bow and when I was about 13 I went in the fields and decided to see how far a metal ended arrow would go so I shot it straight up in the air. About ten seconds later it embedded in the ground two foot away. I never did that test again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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