Toy & Games - High Mount

·         Hopscotch

·         Leap frog

·         Top & Whip

·         Skipping

o   All in this together girls, never mind the weather girls, when I call your birthday please jump out.

·         Marbles

·         Five Jack

·         Go karts made out of pram wheels and wood

·         Played football with a pig’s bladder full of water

Childhood - High Mount

I was given a crust of jam – go over there and behave yourself

One person went round helping the blacksmith with the anvil

One man used to push a truck around collecting different things he was called Mr Whiskers

Ice cream was delivered by horse and cart by an Italian called Ice cream Jack – though we could not afford them very often.

I remember playing on the canals swinging out on the drawbridge  - however my parents could see what I was doing from work

Dad came home with soldiers made out of aluminium

One person had a doll they made clothes for, they crocheted them.

Having two tins cans and put string through and made stilts out of them.

Festival of Britain - High Mount

I remember living in Cradley and having to go on a compulsory school trip – I was only 12 and would rather have had the day off!!

Coronation - High Mount

I remember being on the Sunday School Anniversary Stage wearing a red, white and blue robe

I remember a party being held in Mossy’s yard and I was given a small gold crown instead of a mug, I produced a scarp book for the celebration

One person had to go to her aunties to watch

One had to go to her Gran’s there was a big crowd

One person had a street party – she wore a white dress with red and blue embroidered flowers, she thought she looked great and they had races for the coronation as well.