Interviewee: Things like conkers and marbles, alleys as we called them, were played every year for, I can’t think what, there were definite seasons for them.
Interviewer: Oh were there?!
Interviewee: Well you couldn’t play conkers until it was the autumn, but things like marbles and things, yes there were definite seasons for them. I don’t know what they were and you either played ’In the hole’ or ’On the knob’. We used to have, they were quite pretty these things, you see the glass ones, and you’d get sixers and twelvers and forty eighters and some were huge, as big as this. Interviewer: Where did you go to buy your marbles?
Interviewee: I don’t remember. Toy shop, there was a toy shop on Wey Hill, and I assume you could buy them there. I don’t ever remember buying any so how I came by them I don’t know. There was a lot of swapping went on, you always swapped your comics and all sorts of things, so, no, I don’t actually remember buying them.