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Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by Norman on 14/9/2026, 12:55 pm

Bobs daughter Kim has just phoned to tell me her Dad didn't want a funeral so donated his body for medical purposes.
So the Family are having a 'Wake' on the 3rd Oct to remember Bob and Kim would like to talk about Bobs life in Hebburn 1920s-30s and the games he told her they played. One game was something Kitty.
I told her we had a game called Canon where you threw a ball at a tin can.
Another was pronounce ' Dee Leave Or'
Can anyone add how they were played.
He also mentioned they collected 'Boody' which I told her was broken ceramic/pottery.
Anyone know more on that cos I didnt collect boody.

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by Brian on 14/9/2026, 1:38 pm, in reply to "Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

De leave or was two teams one trying to capture and imprison them in an area that the capturing team guarded. The other team would try and free their team mates by running through the area shouting de leave or . If you got through the prisoners made a run for it.

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by Mac C on 14/9/2026, 1:50 pm, in reply to "Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

The one we played in Jarrow was call Delevo.
As I recall it the rules were
There were 2 teams of equal numbers.
1 team would go & hide & the other team would leave a few people to guard their den or cell, the rest would go & try to capture members of the other team.
The team searching had to catch members of the other team.They had to get hold of them & say 1 2 3 Delevo,they then put them in the den or cell.

Captured team members could be rescued by any free team members, they had to get to the den or cell get hold of the captured team member & say 1 2 3 Delevo out.

When all the hiding team had been captured,it would be their turn to search for the other team

We roved over large areas playing the game.

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by Patrick on 14/9/2026, 3:05 pm, in reply to "Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

I remember a game called multikitty, which was the same as the one on the attached link.http://www.gateshead-grammar.com/montakitty.html

for Patrick

Posted by Mac C on 15/9/2026, 9:32 am, in reply to "Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

Yes indeed Patrick.
We used to play multikitty against a gable end in Holly St. Probably the source of my poorly back in my dotage.
I would bet Bob played that too!
Simple days!

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by Malcolm on 14/9/2026, 6:34 pm, in reply to "Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

I remember playing Dickie De Lee Or (not sure of the spelling? but as described by other members on here.

As to"Boodie", my Mam described collecting "Boodle", as you say, broken bits of ceramics/jewelry etc. They would set up in the back lane of Arthur Street, and swop bits of Boodle. Obviously some were more valuable than other! My Mam, Nancy Kirtley, was born in 1918, so this probably occurred around the mid to late 1920's, at a guess.

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by George on 15/9/2026, 12:02 am, in reply to "Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

I remember each of these games just as they have been described. The names differed but the actions were the same.
Collecting BOODIES was more mysterious. I never did find out why only girls could decide what made a piece of broken pottery into a boodie. A sample could be thrown away in utter disgust as being just "a broken piece of cup".😮

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by Elizabeth Baker (Tindle) on 15/9/2026, 5:49 am, in reply to "Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

We used boody as monetary exchange at St Oswald's Junior school. There was a "cinder yard" where shops built by the students sprung up . Each shop had bits of builders material representing different products eg tan coloured tiles were toffee. Most students went shopping at playtime.

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by Stan Wears on 15/9/2026, 8:26 am, in reply to "Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

R.I.P Bob...

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by AJG on 15/9/2026, 8:00 pm, in reply to "Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

I remember my mam talking about playing "body shops" when she was a girl in the 1940s. She went to St. Aloysius school and grew up in the Collins Lane area.

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by Tom barker on 15/9/2026, 9:06 pm, in reply to "Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

I remember growing up in the Quay we had a game called BAttleships and Cruicers on either side of the road we have 4or5 lads we would secretly nominate who would be the Battleship and who would be the Cruicer then some would shout send out your Battleshipswhoever was picked would fold arms and hop on one leg to the middle of the road and knock the other kid over so might have a little lad against a big lad tuff luck happy happy days

Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July.

Posted by Norman on 15/9/2026, 9:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Bob Noble our oldest regular who died in July. "

It's good to see you on the board Tom.
👍👍

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