DENS

redhead · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: DENS

We used to live near the woods , only a small wood which ran along by the rail track anyhow all the local kids used to go down there and build dens , we made them out of whatever we could find and spend all day there , the o.a.p . bungalows used to back on tne woods and in the very last one was avery strange lady can't rem much about her but all the kids used to call her a witch and if she saw you we believed we were cursed ,

and something bad would happen !! the dens became our little homes and being girls we used to take nic/nacs down and make them all cozy much to the boys annoyannce great innocent times wounder where my old friends are now , its great to look back on the innocence of it all . like the saying goes GOOD OLD DAYS

makes you think what will todays kids have to look back on !!!!!

Memph1s · Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:38 pm Post subject:

oh my god i forgot about dens!

at the back of our garden there used to be some garages, i remember me and my brothers used to climb over the fence (you could get to it by goin round the street but it was quicker this way) we would walk down to the end garage and climb though a hole in the side, we would then walk through about 2-3 garages and hide in there.

we used to be part of a gang of lads and we would give the lads on the green some stick, when things got out of hand we would leg it back to the garages.

fun times

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Serenity · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:15 am Post subject:

I'd forgotten about dens too! We were always building them. We lived near a dike that has bushes running along side. We would often make a den there, gathering old planks from here and there and taking back to reinforce the place. We once dug a huge hole in the bank side and used to sit in there, dread to think what would have happened if it had caved in when someone walked over it lol

My bro once made a huge den in our garden, he dug down about 3 foot, then covered it over with wood etc. It used to be like an army dug out, full of earwigs and stuff but all good fun lol

Just remembered, lol, we had an Elderberry tree in my nans back garden and my dad helped us make a tree house in it! It was head height, had a blanket for the door and used to creek and groan with out weights lol.. bet that wouldnt have passed any Safety tests now lol
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Memph1s · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:13 pm Post subject:

that one your brother dug out sounds like something we found once. went camping with the school and were playing hide and seek in the surrounding woods. me and a mate found this pile of logs to hide behind but you had to climb over the top to get to the back, half way over though we found a hole and climbed in it, it was hollow inside! enough room to fit about 4 people in but you had to crouch, but we crept up there that night and dug the dirt out and made it our personal hiding place for the week. it was great, just looked like a pile of logs.

we used to hang about in the old maltings. there used to be a small hole high up that we used to have to get a bunk up then two of us would lift the last person up. we used to climb over the roofs and smash any windows that were left and just get up to the usual stuff mischievious boys did hehe. then one day we went to go in there and there were some diggers parked outside, we couldnt see anyone so we went to sneak in, when we got to our usual entance some bloke shouted at us and said they were gonna be knocking the place down soon and they wouldnt have known we were there. i guess we were lucky we didnt sneak in.
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