RARA to the rescue.
By: RARA Children’s Committee Rescuing our area from a longstanding neglected, overgrown and litter strewn glorified car park thanks to the fabulous support of QECF, Cambridge SOS team, Cambridge Council Community Grants, local Councillors, Bell School, Medirest, Police and others too many to list …… RARA the local Residents Association for RedCross Areas established a […]
Shows in the garage
By: Mary Mary: One of the thing that my sisters and I used to do was hold shows in the garage and charge people something like half penny to come and watch the show. And then the rough kids in the village used not pay but they used to come just stand in the back […]
Biscuit tin for the future
By: Mary We still climbed over the wall but only to buy a biscuit tin of ‘things for people to find in the future’. I have no memory of what – maybe toys, notes, sweets. The wall is still there so maybe the biscuit tin is still buried. More posts by Mary: Ally Ally Oh […]
Chalk a line from Home to School
By: JDG Grab a piece of chalk and tie to a long stick securely. When you leave home for school drag the stick with the chalk touching the floor and walk to school leaving a trail of how you got there.
Water fights in Belgrave Road
We have been doing Water Fights in our street when it gets hot for about 7 years. We have about 20 simple tube water pistols and each family brings out a trug of water and then we all cover each other in water. There are 4/5 regular families that do this. It’s fun. By Ellen […]
Building site adventures
We lived on Thornton Way in Girton in the 1960s. Across the road flats (still there) were being built. We four little kids spent a lot of time there exploring and climbing around. Amazing, there was no restriction at all. By Cathy, David, Frances and Moira Brown
Chubb Fire
The children of Stanley Road had many hours of fun letting the old fire extinguishers off, they were mostly water but once we found some that made such thick smoke that we filled the whole place, everyone ran but the three youngest who were driven home in a police car to their utter joy! By: […]
Skateboarding at the L-Banks
By: Joe Lewis Joe first started skateboarding at the History Facility on West Road in the late 90’s when he was 12 years old. Skaters would congregate around the ‘L-Banks’: “The noise of skate wheels rattling … seeing people going up the banks and doing jumps, kick flips and tricks… it was an unbelievable paradise […]
The orchard behind Stanley Road
By: Becky White The orchard behind the houses of Stanley Road was our secret garden, we spent hours building dens and climbing trees, the huge pear tree in the middle, the underground den that the older Tucker brothers had built before us, the shed and the gold maxi car on the outskirts. We only came […]
Playbox at Coleridge Rec, 30 June – 2 July 2023
FREE playing out event
