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Generation Games
For yesterday's children the streets around their neighbourhood were their playground. Most children grew up in close-knit communities and the roads were traffic free.
| Traditional games followed a seasonal pattern. There were energetic games such as rounders, cricket, football, netball, hopscotch, kite-flying, trundling a hoop and skipping to the rhythms of chanted jingles. There were individual games of skill such as manipulating a whip and top or a diabolo and variations of bouncing a ball. |
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| With practice came the chance to become a champion at marbles nicknamed "stonies", jacks ("five stones"), conkers or "faggies" (flicking cigarette cards). There were more boisterous team games with the object of capturing the opponent's den, like "Leevo", "Lowerum" or "Kick Can Lurky" or the rival gangs of "Cowboys and Indians". |
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| Then as the days lengthened and in the long summer holidays the children roamed far and wide in the parks "frogspawning" or "buttercupping" in the countryside around Warrington, armed only with a picnic of pop and sandwiches. |
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