Bygone News - Games

Girls Game Only

lynne.davidson — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:02:51 +0000

Mike the game was just called stot the ball against the wall but only girls were allowed to play!

Street Game

fiona.christison — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 08:33:25 +0000

I am trying to remember the name of the street game where you put a ball inside a woman's nylon stocking and hit it against the wall, above your head and between your legs? Anybody know?

Housies

lynne.davidson — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 08:42:57 +0000

Arbroath RoadAs a little girl I lived in Morgan Street. I would play in the Ritz Picture House doorway with my doll Maureen at (housies). Also Cardean Street with a ball in old stockings âunder leggyâ or throw the ball jump over it saying boys or girls names in the alphabet. Doll in pram walk to Baxterâs Park. Sit on steps in front of pavilion with Maureen (housies) again. Great imagination! Not like today kids all computers and phone games.

Remembering!

lynne.davidson — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:21:37 +0000

I was brought up by my grannie Alice and No 41 in the 50s happy days at St Mary's Forebank. Stannergate with a bucket for wilks, plundering apples and pears, the wee pool at the sweeming, hired trunks, fishing for floonders at the docks, sky larks singing on the law, chicky nelly, doos eggs at the hoose o doos, climbing the three waas, Blaikies and the forest for birds eggs, the green hills sliding in the winter. The Plaza, Vic, Rex, minors of the ABC, kissy catchie, Jonny and the gun, kick the can.

Magdalen Green

lynne.davidson — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:26:13 +0000

I was born and brought up in Bellefield Avenue and to me and my generation both here and on Magdalen Green this was to be our playground. Read more......

Belmont Camp

lynne.davidson — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:46:24 +0000

At holiday times we would go on day trips with our parents on a train to Arbroath or Edinburgh. Sometimes we would go on the Fifies to visit our cousins in Tayport. We would spend all day there and come back on the last Fifie at night. Read more......

Dryburgh Days

lynne.davidson — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 11:20:09 +0000

Born in the DRI in 1964 and living in a flat in the newly developed Dryburgh Gardens where I spent a great childhood, playing in the lifts and needing a stick to reach the fourth floor where I lived. Getting chased from the adults as we walked along walls and played football on top of the garages (what were we thinking). Read more......

Beechie

lynne.davidson — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:20:38 +0000

16 Dronley Avenue, Beechie was the home of the Hunties. Beechie was the best of places with lots of very large families (Wilkies at 10 as were the Glancies). I know we are very selective with our memories but the 'return to school' street parties, the mums and dads playing in the street wi' the bairns. The McPhails at the bottom of the close with Bella running the tattie squads. All great memories. The 'People's Journal' once had a headline 'How can a place look so beautiful and harbour so many criminals'. Read more......

Found Memories from Down Under

lynne.davidson — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:42:27 +0000

I was born in Maryfield Hospital in 1952 and stayed in Mid Craigie until I was 3 before moving to Douglas in 1955. I went to Balerno Primary School, then the Stobie. Read more......

Derby Street

lynne.davidson — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:22:14 +0000

I was born in a single end in Derby Street and lived there for 16 years. I lived at the Byron Street end and it was Law View Place. The Hill Street end before houses were built was a Darbie Manor. So we always referred to Derby sounding the E which in English is pronounced Darby. The whole street was eventually renamed Derby Street. But I would like it to be spelt correctly in Scots Darbie Street once the multis are gone. Read more......