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Back-to-school playground games featuring North East Nostalgic
Sunderland Echo
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19/09/2023
TikTok star North East Nostalgic remembers the games we used to play at school breaktimes in the autumn. With thanks to Kathrine Taylor.
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September often provokes nostalgia for the days of back to school and old playground
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games. From hopscotch to British Bulldog and Skippy Rofs, break times were full of imaginative
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games to play with your best mates. Do you remember soaking your conquering vinegar the
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night before in preparation for the big battle at dinner time the next day? Or even playing
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What's the Time Mr Wolf? I used to love those complicated hand clap games including a sailor
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going to sea, hilo piccolo and even a really creepy old rhyme clap game involving victorian
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serial killer Mary Ann Cotton involving being dead and rotten. What other playground games
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do you remember?
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