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The Games We Played by Susan Kelleher (view source)
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|publisher=English Heritage
|date=19 Jul July 2007
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In March 2006 English Heritage published a request via its member magazine for recollections of the games played in childhood. Presumably by virtue of the age-range of members the resulting letters covered the 1920s to 1970s and these have been distilled into an utterly charming, totalling nostalgic, conversation piece of a book.
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|name=Sue Magee
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You inspired me to go and get an old photograph album, Lesley. This was taken in the nineteen fifties. Seven children lived in our street and this is us all playing Oranges and Lemons - literally in the middle of the road. We had to move out of the way if the coalman came round with his horse and mind where you put your feet afterwards but it was there and in the surrounding fields that we were to be found unless the weather really was too bad to go out. That's me at the front of the queue.
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|name=Magda
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|comment= I agree it's less to do with a change in environment and more to do with a change in attitudes; one of them being the loss of the communal responsibility, ie the idea that other adults would look out for and look after your children, all children - and would have parents' implicit mandate to do it, including chastising them.
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|name=Lesley
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|comment= I totally agree with that. I also wondered whether the decrease in family size plays a part. Did previous generations, as well as having older siblings to watch over the younger ones...and was that also how the 'rules' got passed down...you learned from your big sis?
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