Conkers

I did , also Cannon was a favourite , two sides 15 yards either side of a tin can with sticks on , tennis ball, whichever side who hit the can and dislodge the sticks is ON . The aim for that side , to get the can and sticks back upright without being hit with the ball , the other to hit you with the ball which when successful means that player can no longer participate in getting the can upright . If they miss the player with the ball that player can pick the ball up with clenched fists and bat it away giving a bigger chance to get the can upright.

Remember couldn't always get a can , you'd ask " Cookie" in the school kitchen if they had one but often they didn't or wouldn't answer the knock at the kitchen door. So if you couldn't play either at school or at home some poor sap had to go in the house or ask after school for an extra large portion of beans on toast so we had a can to play at home or take to school next day , happy days :)
 
Admittedly not a 'similar' game, but at my junior school, out of nowhere as far as I can tell a 'game' developed at lunch break, involving just one of the teaching staff. Miss Webb (or Webber) used to leave school during lunch break and on her return, she would walk from the car park the entire length of the school yard. On her approach to the main entrance everyone (it seemed) ran to make a human barricade across the part of the yard near the doors. Everyone chanted 'Block the gangway, block the gangway...". When she met the barricade, she would tap her handbag on several of the heads of children near the middle, who would all fall to the ground and the barricade would dissolve.
Who's idea was that? I don't remember anyone holding a meeting. I don't know when it started, but it seemed to go on for at least one term.
One day Miss Webb tricked everyone, instead of demolishing the barricade, she diverted through the main hall just before arriving at the kids, to a unanimous groan!
 
theatrically_inclined said:
Admittedly not a 'similar' game, but at my junior school, out of nowhere as far as I can tell a 'game' developed at lunch break, involving just one of the teaching staff. Miss Webb (or Webber) used to leave school during lunch break and on her return, she would walk from the car park the entire length of the school yard. On her approach to the main entrance everyone (it seemed) ran to make a human barricade across the part of the yard near the doors. Everyone chanted 'Block the gangway, block the gangway...". When she met the barricade, she would tap her handbag on several of the heads of children near the middle, who would all fall to the
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If only she could have been deployed to the Berlin Wall!
 
We would ride miles to get to a good tree. I walk past trees with hundreds of big beautiful conkers on the floor and I think back to those times knowing that we would have scooped up the lot.
We need to get the kids conkering again. Then we can bring back clackers!!
 
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