childhood memories

[peter]

does anyone remember playing on the maypole in the swing park and when jumping off the chain behind hit you on the back of the head?

[sarnie boy]

lol
or riding your bike past a group of girls no hands...and falling off

[Doug]

Being thrown from the umbrella in front of a bunch of girls and having the **** taken out of you..........

[shillelagh]

can remember dancing round the maypole but not on a park anywhere - it was carried around and the girls who went to sunday school danced round it holding ribbons and there was one who sat in the middle and held the pole so then it wouldnt fall over.

[garinda]

I remember when playing on the swings, when you got to a certain height it was called the 'bumps', and you used to get a real jolt that should really have given you whiplash.

[katex]

Just a broken arm, but that was the death plank.

[sarnie boy]

Originally Posted by garinda

I remember when playing on the swings, when you got to a certain height it was called the 'bumps', and you used to get a real jolt that should really have given you whiplash.

nowadays it probably would give you whiplash everyone was harder back in the day

[chav1]

throwing a stick up intothe conker tree and have the stick smack your friend on the head coz hes busy picking up his conkers from his previous throw

[SPUGGIE J]

Rope swings too close to the tree its self. Either hit it or jump of either way pain for you a laugh for your mates.

[Gayle]

Originally Posted by garinda

I remember when playing on the swings, when you got to a certain height it was called the 'bumps', and you used to get a real jolt that should really have given you whiplash.

Swings aren't set up to do that any more. We also used to launch ourselves off the swings from it's full height to see how far we could go. I suppose there were too many compensation claims that they had to make things safer.

[Less]

Originally Posted by chav1

throwing a stick up intothe conker tree and have the stick smack your friend on the head coz hes busy picking up his conkers from his previous throw

Falling from the conker tree from a height of 6' and having the wind knocked out of you, just because the flimsy branch couldn't take your weight and those all those lovely big conkers.

[grannyclaret]

having an old tyre tied to a gaslamp,and swinging..on it.and skipping with 2 ropes ..i hated turning up...(being one of the two people turning the rope)

[WillowTheWhisp]

Those elastic things that two people put round their ankles and somebody else had to jump in and out of the middle.

[garinda]

Wrote about it before but getting my friends to push me up and down Stanhill Lane in a wheelchair I found at the tip, that I painted beige with black spots, because I wasn't allowed a bike until I was ten.

[grannyclaret]

i think the IN colour was ..sky blue pink with yellow dots on..or was that just a burnley thing?