Things you did as kids that they don't do now!

[Return of the Rev]

Digging up codd bottles from the old tip off new england road and selling them

Anyone sell squirrel tales for 10 bob

 

[StonehamPark]

Climbing Trees
Falling off trees
Swimming in rivers/sea
All-day bike rides
Reading Goosebumps books
Pogs
Playing 'Kerbie/Kerball'
Sneaking into building sites after dark
Firing pellets from an air rifle into apples in the back garden. Obviously not eating the apples afterwards!
Making slingshots out of branches.

Used to have loads of fun as a kid.
Must be so boring for them nowadays.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

Appearing on Jim'll Fix It and Rolf's Cartoon Time

 

[StonehamPark]

Going off in the morning to Stanmer park or Hollingbury golf course with the kids next door and not coming back till teatime all at the age of five.

I suggest you refrain from publishing your plans over the internet!

 

[Northstander]

Having ready brek when you get up and to then Be told as you went out on you're bike..."make sure you are back for tea!"

Climbing trees without fear or thinking of any consequences

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

playing football in the street

Used to live in St Mary Magdalene street off Lewes road. We had our goals at each end and used to get peeved off if just one car parked up.

 

[Hastings woody]

playing football in the street

You mean Playing football. If you ask a kid for a game now they go & get on the playstation. another reason why we will never win the world cup.

 

[Grombleton]

Masturbating seven times a day

Don't act like you don't still do that.

 

[wunt be druv]

Playing week long football matches that usually ended up as a 200 all draw,actually TALKING to friends/girlfriends face to face without the aid of a mobile phone etc. Going on all-day bike rides,fighting kids from other schools,collecting empty Corona bottles to claim the deposit back,putting coins on railway tracks so the trains would squash them flat and watch Peter Ward bang in goal after goal for the Albion.

 

[Goring-by-Seagull]

Playing 'Kerbie/Kerball'

YES!!!!

 

[banjo]

Knock down ginger.

 

[Magic Sponge]

The perrymount! Saturday morning kids club!
The derelict building of choice was the old school between heath road and church road

PS HAVE YOU STILL GOT MY PLAYBOY MAG

'The Trevelian' or something like that wasn't it?
Used to get up onto the roof and throw bangers off into Church Road, well until the old bill stopped us !!!!

 

[BigGully]

Most kids still do a lot of this stuff. I think it is a lot to do with where you live. For example in Brighton you don't see that many 8-16 yr olds playing out except on Saturday's on the high street because their parents all moved out to the suburbs or Shoreham or wherever when they bought houses. Take a look along the beach next day you are there on a normal day, very few groups that age group at all.

Where I live, in the leafy suburbs on the edge of the Thames, all day long I see groups of 8-16 yr olds going down to the tyre swing on the river, kicking footballs around, playing cricket with sticks, frisbee in the park, rooting around by the rivers and fields and on days like this if I'm on the towpath I am passed by groups of kids on bikes all the time with backpacks and cheap fishing nets out for the day.

It's a city Vs suburbs/countryside thang baby.

I dont think you will see any groups of 8-11 year olds, I am not sure of the current 'cut off age' that allows you to actually go out unsupervised, but this to me seems the reason that the aforementioned 'larks' no longer happen.

I am guessing that 11 or 12 years old might be the current age at which you might be allowed by parents to go out on your own, no doubt wired up with the latest technology to alert their parents of their impending abduction, drowning, stabbing and shooting.

After all what self respecting 14 year old would turn their parker coat inside out and above their heads and walk into a force 9 gale with their mates, it all happened when we were 8 years old

 

[wakeytom]

Kerbie, falling down trees and almost breaking legs, big one for me between the ages of about 4 and 9 was crop circles with the older kids, knocking on friends doors to see if they were playing rather than texting, football games with huge teams and first to 100 - normally by the end of the game the teams had completely changed due to having to go in for tea only to come out later and find out which team won and hoping it was the one shooting your way. 1 on 1 rugby league for about 5 hours a day. Just sport in general kids these days will be as fat as I am now in my late 20s, going to an old derelict farm house only to be told not to go in as it had an old winch lift that would break and be full of glue sniffers (which as a kid in the late 80s early 90s was a big thing - do glue sniffers even exist any more or did the school hype actually work?)

 

[c0lz]

Marbles
Pitch penny (Penny against the wall)
Street Olympics
Hop scotch
Street tennis

 

[atfc village]

Home made Crossbows that fired Hook nails,small front cogs on your bike.

 

[Return of the Rev]

'The Trevelian' or something like that wasn't it?
Used to get up onto the roof and throw bangers off into Church Road, well until the old bill stopped us !!!!

THATS THE ONE GREAT VIEWS FROM THE TOP,LOVED SMACKING THE OLD PIANO ABOUT ON THE GROUND FLOOR

 

[the wanderbus]

every year we used to build a dam across the stream at the back of our estate and make a couple of rope swings on 2 neighbouring trees that stood on the steep bank beside it, we then used to hold the rope and run in opposite directions along the top of the bank and jump onto the knotted rope at the last possible moment. This tangled the ropes at about halfway up and caused you to swing round each other horizontal to the ground/stream. I only knew of one kid that got hurt, broken arm, but he didnt live on our estate so we didnt care! We also used to build rafts to go on the swollen stream and had a family called the Reeds that we used to make test anything slightly dangerous, one year the raft sunk , the Reedon board ended up thrashing around in polluted water and went to hospital for 2 weeks. when his mum cornered us we all said " We told him not to do it Mrs Reed but he wouldnt listen"

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Stone fights and building grass camps.
Finding porn mags (with little yellows slugs between the pages) and empty EVOSTIK tins in the woods.
Bottle collecting and rooting around Victorian dumps sites.
Stealing bar towels and beer mats from pubs by running in and doing a smash and grab.

 

[Albion_Dave]

Making go-karts.
Playing with slow worms.