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  1. CaroleC

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    #21 Dec 7, 2015
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    Jacks were the, 'must have', when I was at school. They came in a drawstring bag - I think there were ten pieces, with a small hard rubber ball. Mine were a dullish metal though, not shiny gold.

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    #22 Dec 7, 2015
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    That's interesting - I can't remember using a ball.

    I suppose with all these really old games there are lots of variations.
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    #23 Dec 7, 2015
    We used stones & the posh kids used Jacks, other must have toy was the knuckle breakers & ankle bashers

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    #24 Dec 7, 2015
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    Oh my goodness! Such things never reached the refined environs of Bromley I'm pleased to say!
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    #25 Dec 7, 2015
    Nearly every kid in the street had a pair of break your neck roller skates, if you were from rich family you get a pair to fit you, but if from poorer family you had a pair of one size fits all, with a wing bolt to alter size of skate.
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    #26 Dec 7, 2015
    Never heard of these before, but gosh the memories all the others bring back.
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    #27 Dec 7, 2015
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    Must have been a Northern thing as they never reached us either!
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    #28 Dec 7, 2015
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    I think they could have come later, as I can remember my friends sons having Klackers. My roller skates were those adjustable ones, they used to bend if you did much jumping off kerbs in them. Not up to today's standard.

    ps. Definitely not posh - just a highly skilled mitherer!
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    #29 Dec 7, 2015
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    That's probably it - much too rough for us soft Southerners!
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    #30 Dec 7, 2015
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    I can't really remember what my roller skates were like, but I can say with certainty that, like my bike and school uniform, they were bought much too big for me so I could 'grow into them'!
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    #31 Dec 7, 2015
    Knuckle breakers better known as klackers ankle bashers had several names from skip ball, hop jump, spinner.

    In my day the ankle basher ball was solid rubber & tennis size ball.
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    the knuckle breakers ballls were rock hard like mini golf balls
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    #32 Dec 8, 2015
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    I remember those "ankle bashers" but I never had one. I remember having a baton those could be dangerous. Another neat one was the ribbon dancer.

    Hmmm Janet you could need the ball to actually play Jacks.
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    #33 Dec 8, 2015
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    Oh no! That explains everything. No wonder I never became a millionaire - I've gone through life trying to play Jacks with no ball!
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    #34 Dec 8, 2015
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    Nope - we did not play Jacks or Fivestones with a ball. You would put up those you had caught and toss them onto the back of your hand - throw those up while you picked up another one, then toss all back into your hand.

    But you had to have the already caught ones on the back of your hand and throw them up while you picked up another one.

    In a minute we will go back to hopscotch where the "chalk" we used to mark it out was not exactly chalk...

    ...do not forget that most dogs in those days had the Sunday roast bones...
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    #35 Dec 8, 2015
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    ...... And left white, chalky poos all over the place!
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    #36 Dec 8, 2015
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    Malka you should be ashamed of yourself! Here we are, reminiscing about childhood pastimes, and you lower the tone by introducing the subject of dog poo!
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    #37 Dec 8, 2015
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    Yes but we did not know it was poo - we thought it was just white chalk...

    Well how where we to know?

    Once upon a time we went knocking on someone's door and said his dog had his bottom stuck to another dog's bottom.

    Well how were we to know?
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    #38 Dec 8, 2015
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    #39 Dec 8, 2015
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    ...and the tone gets lower!
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    #40 Dec 8, 2015
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    Well we knew about ess ee ex but not about dogs getting tied so we thought their bottoms were stuck together.
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