Allevoi

that was in the main street mind you- someone would be 'it' and everybody else used to run and you had to go and shout "allevoi!"

Brownies

I went to the Brownies and I was a nice wee Brownie. And I used to take a sauce bottle for to get a penny on it for the collection. I bought a ha'penny worth of sweets and the other ha'penny went in the collection. And then I went to the guides and I played the diablo and skipping and that's all..........

Magic Lantern Shows

Some of us went to the magic lantern with "Band of Hope" but that wasn't Saturday that was during the week. The one I remember was "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Sometimes it was funny things- it was more or less animated There was someone playing the piano & it went from one still to another

Kick The Can

You had a can in the middle of the road- the road we played in and someone was chosen to kick the can and if there was a dozen of you- the others would all scatter and the purpose was that you hid and the person who kicked the can was to try and find you but get back to the can before they did, you see? Whoever was the last one to be out was the next to kick the can. While you went looking for somebody- if somebody got the opportunity they could come out and kick the can away and then everyone got away. It could go on for a long time.

marbles

marbles were glass balls and I was Queen of the marbles down at Lochend Close down the Canongate. And John Robertson, the football player, his father, he was king. He was King, and I was Queen.

And we played skipping ropes-