Marbles
How often marbles would be used to pass dinner hours.
Collections were often kept in a cloth bag.So how are marbles made? Bits of broken glass are shoveled into a machine that crushes them into bits.
The crushed glass will later be melted down and shaped into marbles (also known
as "mibs" on the street). This photo shows the glass stored on the floor, and an employee is using an ordinary squared off shovel to scoop up the glass and dump it into a bin which feeds it into a spinning metal mechanism that crushes it into small bits.
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Jacks or Dibs
Jacks or Dibs were popular at school with many variations of skills invoving throwing up the ball and picking up jacks and then recatching the ball.Jackstones, fivestones, jacks or dibs game of great antiquity and worldwide distribution, now played with stones, bones, seeds, filled cloth bags, or metal or plastic counters (the jacks), with or without a ball.
The name derives from “chackstones”—stones to be tossed. The knuckle, wrist, or ankle bones of goats, sheep, or other animals also have been used in play. Such objects have been found in prehistoric caves
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Space Hoppers
Space Hoppers - also known as Hoppity Hops, Hop Ball, and Kangaroo Balls - bounced into the UK during the Summer of ’71 and served absolutely no useful purpose whatsoever.
They didn’t allow you to go faster, bounce higher, or run further than you could on foot. But you had to have one.
For much of the early 1970s children spent hours bouncing up and down busy roads until they either developed a headache, fell off and grazed their knees, or burst their Hopper - not an easy task unless it was cunningly over-inflated.
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