1972: SONGS and GAMES from the CITY STREETS and PLAYGROUNDS | Dusty Bluebells | BBC Archive

It’s a part of growing up that few children would recognise now.

Not just the games that kids would play out on the streets with their mates, but songs, rhymes and chants passed on from older siblings and parents. The terraced streets of cities all across the UK and Ireland used to ring with them. Equal parts folk wisdom, nonsense, tradition and larger-than-life characters, with a hundred local variations – what did you sing?

The livewires in this film were pupils of St Mary’s Primary School on Divis Street, Belfast.


Clip taken from Dusty Bluebells, originally broadcast on BBC One, Friday 31 March, 1972.




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