Memories of Childhood - Hallcroft

We’d play dominoes, draughts, card games and whist drives.

We loved to play outside –with marbles, jacks, and conkers or leapfrog – simple things.

I remember having a stick and a tyre and keep it going down the street like a top and whip.

We played with skipping ropes and hopscotch.

We’d play tin can murky under a gas light where you’d kick the can and then go and find it.

It was before the Fifties but we used to collect shrapnel during the war on the bombsites and would spend hours swopping it, trading it and stacking it.

I went to the school library and borrowed 2 books a week and read them. I loved Enid Blyton, Beatrix Potter and Rupert.