Did anyone used to play this at school? You would have one person stood between two other people who were holding hands around you, they'd swing their arms on 'fish', 'chips' and then on 'turnover' they would turn the person in the middle upside down.
They are flipped all the way over in an ideal world but sometimes dropped because kids aren't very strong. Bear in mind that the kid in the middle wasn't very far off the ground! It did end up getting banned at our school I think, not because anyone got hurt but because the staff were sick of hearing 'Fish... Chips... and a TURNOVER!' 100 times each playtime.
What about British bulldog? Proper playground game. Remember playing it in the gym at Kirk Balk and my mate broke his arm, nasty.
Never heard of it - not played in Wombewll in the '70s Yes used to play that - fairly sure it was banned but we still played it
At Junior school we played Pirates in the gym and Murderball on the field. I can remember our teacher saying, "We're going to play a game called Pirates. We're not really allowed to play it, but it's too much fun not to, so here goes..." Basically it was a game of Jack-Above (or off ground tigs, if you like), but played at full throttle using all available gym apparatus. Murderball was essentially a free-for-all where the whole class was up against another class. A mat laid out at either end of the field, and the object was to get the ball onto the mat by any means necessary. Usually ended up in a gigantic scrum. Best played in mud. It all went well until a kid was carted off with concussion... Kids today don't know what they're missing.
Can't recall "Fish, chips and turnover" but do recall the others mentioned: "British Bulldog", "Finger, thumb or rusty d(b?)um. Also played "Pie Crust" at Holgate and "Hot Rice" (a sort of tag played with a tennis ball) as well as "Rover" which were popular in the playgrounds round Hoyland..... yes, I am old
Because I did a lot of gymnastics and played rugby , 'Piecrust' (alt. name 'finger, thumb, rusty bum) was my game of choice at Holgate. My job was to dive over the top and knock over the kid who was 'prop'.
We used to play a game in the gym at primary school in mid 80s called King Ball. I can remember there being crash mats down each side and was similar to dodgeball. Oh and i was awesome at it Bulldog's charge at middle school - a few broken collar bones if I remember right!
Remember British Bulldog well. They banned it when i was in year 6. Fortunately I did karate. Our sensei liked doing "team building" games, including BB, for the last half an hour. I once nearly broke my nose falling into a radiator, but I soldiered on
