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calumdown said:
i think allies were the non~glass ones, mate.
sort of white.
so-named because they were made from alabaster.
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I'm not confident enough of my point to argue with you, but I always thought that they were called alleys because the game tended to be played in alleys?

Not that it mattered one jot to me what they were called, my dad worked at Metro's and used to fetch home solid steel ball bearings, I could smash opponents to bits.
 
Bald fraud said:
Is ginnel the new barm?
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Didn't have terraces where I grew up but there were dirt paths between the backs of a lot of the back gardens, we called them boggarts and they were magical places because only the kids ever used them. Some of them extended for quite long distances and twisted and turned, they were amazing for cyclocross tournaments
 
happy said:
I'm not confident enough of my point to argue with you, but I always thought that they were called alleys because the game tended to be played in alleys?

Not that it mattered one jot to me what they were called, my dad worked at Metro's and used to fetch home solid steel ball bearings, I could smash opponents to bits.
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Think I am losing my marbles
 
When I come on this thread and see all the off topic shite posted by the same old crowd (I include myself in this), I think, I bet the serious contributors (Halfcenturyup, slbn, Prestwich Blue, Billy Shears, Damocles..........) have us all on ignore and thus have this thread cut down to about 26 pages.
 
The actual topic has run out of steam with less than 500 posts and 50 pages to go to reach the rarified air of the 100,000/10,000 mark!

Come on!!!

After marbles, maybe a discussion of conkers will get us there???
 
DiscoSteve said:
who knew there were so many marble sizes - which one of these counts as a dobber then?
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Vacor Marbles - Toys - Glasfirma - Crystal Products Factory

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I wonder if there is 115 mm marble standard?
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They'd all be/have been dobbers in my part of the world (Limerick). I didn't realise the word was used outside of my hometown intil now, in fact.

Bigger ones are/were called Billy Busters (which can be dated back to a canon that was used to defend the city in1691 during (King Billy's) seige of Limerick).

Also there are (or were, now, I suppose) Chainey Alleys (Possibly a corruption off China and the French allez). They were ceramic spheres. Heaven knows where they came from. No potteries around here.

A firk was a particularly way of playing the dobber by flicking it with your thumb. Was there anything like that word in Manchester?

Somebody's gonna put up the Ron Manager gif under this now and I don't blame them, one bit. :-)
 
ChicagoBlue said:
The actual topic has run out of steam with less than 500 posts and 50 pages to go to reach the rarified air of the 100,000/10,000 mark!

Come on!!!

After marbles, maybe a discussion of conkers will get us there???
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Great afternoon for a pub beer garden this. As long as you’re out of the breeze though.
#BewareTheBreeze
 
ChicagoBlue said:
The actual topic has run out of steam with less than 500 posts and 50 pages to go to reach the rarified air of the 100,000/10,000 mark!

Come on!!!

After marbles, maybe a discussion of conkers will get us there???
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I collected conkers with my Grandson late last year and laced them all up and had a long afternoon in a kitchen in Newcastle smashing them up.

The 3'er is still in the drawer there awaiting next seasons harvest. We did it without the use of safety equipment too.
 
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