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Yes Yang, remember something like that, drawing arrows on walls or door posts.
Don't remember the paper game, maybe that was a bit before my time !

DONKEY we would play at school and at home (in the road)against some poor pensioners, outside living room wall.

Found this on net, so copied and pasted.

For this game you need a wall with a flat area in front of it. You can use a large ball or a small ball.

1. Players stand behind each other in a line, about three or four metres from the wall.

2. The first person throws the ball against the wall, so it bounces on the ground in front of her.

3. As the ball bounces, she runs in and jumps over it with her legs apart, without letting the ball touch her.

4. If the ball touches her, she takes the first letter of the word DONKEY. The second time it happens she takes O, the third time is N, and she keeps going until she has spelled DONKEY. When this happens she's out of the game.

...perhaps so, granny. I know you're not as old as we all think! But if you've ever watched the film The Railway Children you will probably remember the scene with the boy who falls in the tunnel whilst running in a paper chase. He was following a sort of litter trail on a cross-country run.

Best man dead, and I'm surprised no one has mentioned pitch-n-toss!

You guys all seem to be too young for "conkers" back then late 50's early 60's we used to bash them now you eat them "Chestnuts" roasting on an open fire sounds better than conkers. Anyway I used to get the Crosville green bus to Thornton Hough and sneak into Lord Leverhulmes country estate and get the best conkers. I am not sure this was a street game but generally around Dingle Larch and Beech Rd's we use to have great fun stealing wood and anything else that would burn for "Bonny Night" we would also have pretty scary pitched battles in the streets to protect our wood and the wood we had stolen.

I wouldn't fancy eating horse chestnuts (the one's we use for conkers) ...the one's sold for eating are "sweet" chestnuts. I don't know for sure but think that horse chestnuts may actually be poisonous to humans. At the very least, they are probably very bitter.

Anyway, I'm more than old enough to remember playing conkers, and well remember the tricks employed in treating them to make them harder. These included soaking them in vinegar; and coating them in clear nail varnish; or filling them with glue!

As I recall territorial "battles" were not just over things like conker trees but more seriously kicked-off quite between rival schools.

Found this link to a site all about old street games. Some lovely stuff on here, but much of it early 20th century. Mentions Hopscotch; Marbles; Conkers; Skipping; and Knocking Down Ginger. Well worth a look...

http://www.1900s.org.uk/1900s-streetgames.htm

hehehe! yes yingyang I used to soak my conkers in vinegar
just previewed my post. I cannot delete that

Bet people wondered what that smell was coming from your trouser pockets, mike...

hehehe!

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