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Children growing up in the 1940s and 1950s had far fewer toys than children do these days and spent most of their time outdoors. With little traffic on the roads they played out on the streets of their neighbourhood. For children growing up in Haslemere, a relatively rural location, children played in woods, farmland and the local recreation grounds. Children at this time were also expected to have a hobby and joining societies such as the Girl Guides or the Scouts were part and parcel of growing up.

Track 6 Playing Football

Credit line: Alan Perry talks about playing football as a boy.

Transcription:

Interviewee: We used to play football and cricket on the town meadow. There was A class, which I think was Alan Page and John Rogan and Titch Jordan on the odd occasion, and there was me in the B class, with somebody or other I can’t remember now. So we just used get in the evening, we used to go and have football matches A against B, and then in the summer it was cricket, we used to play, on the Town Meadow. It was a regular little match. There were only four or five of us that used to do.[it?]

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