Hedge hopping

[wingman]

I was telling my daughter about knock down ginger one day and apparently it is now called "ding-dong dash" (hardly anyone had a doorbell when I was little!!

[Polly1970]

Oh well, I did the hedge hopping with my brothers in the 70's and 80's and ashamed to admit a few months ago while on a night out drinking we did the same all the way home lol, times change but its great going back in time lol

[Aidan]

I'm very protective of my still-growing hedge & would lose it if I saw any kids doing it.
We used to play "3-goals-in" where two opposing players attacked the same goal ( OK, jumpers 6ft apart ) & whoever scored three first went on goal.

[jimexe]

i remember hedge hopping played it all the time when i was young,also remember playing knock out ginger and jailbreak,kids today dont know what there missing

[Fifi62]

Kids round our way still go garden hopping. And I saw the "dog poo wrapped in paper and set alight" being done last night!!!! But no-one answered the door!

[Baz]

haha! If you did it now you'd get an ASBO! ... how sad.

I used to do it and I used to live near Preston. So come on, just how wide spread was hedge hopping?

I did the 'milk flash' now and then - that was theft of milk at about 6am, which was usually carried out in order to gain essential supplies after an 'all nighter' - staying out on the park all night! Happy days : )

[leethev]

Hedge hopping what a pastime, we used to do a row after the pub when we old enough to drink, you know sixteen! One night me mate went first: que almighty crashing sound, found said mate lying in the remains of a greenhouse that had just been put up the day before and one very irate owner! Funnily enough I occasionally see the owner and he still remembers us from way back then, he laughs about it now but he wasnt so impressed then!

[Mojo]

You can still play "knock down ginger" now, and get paid for it!! Apply for a job at Parcelforce!!!

[Oggy]

Did anyone ever go hedge hopping?
where you ran or jumped through as many garden hedges as possible.
We had a street near us with continuous hedges that we all used to run and jump through. What a great game that was.

Getting caught by the home owners wasnt so great. one house owner even had a little bick wall built within the hedge and we would trip over it. But we were young- it didnt hurt!!! lol

Yep that was so kool, been known to do it when i'm older too after a night out with the lads, think guys rarely grow up. And Knock door run, knocking a front door then legging it, or hiding. Me and my best mate especially, we've relived the Profesionals too many times to mention. Driving down hills, when you're not supposed to, i've been on the bonnet as he drove along, hung on to the car driving, hand brake turned as he taught me to drive on gravel too.

[steve edwards]

i used to live in ANDOVER and we used to call it the grand national , i did it a few times was far too innocent to do it all the time.
We used to get an old cassette tape and undo it , then tie the tape round a lamp post and a fence post , hide and watch the public try to figure out what this stuff is all over them ha ha

[SG1973]

We use to go garden hopping, as we called it, all the time as kids. We even used to have names for the different "runs" depending on what street we were on or if we knew the home owners were aware of our antics, such as The Grand National (lots of high hedges/walls/fences) and The Ball Breaker (particularly difficult one that could cause injury to a certain part of your anatomy).

The locals must've really hated summer coming round - there'd be a stampede of 6 or 7 kids through their back gardens, trampling flowers and plants.

[darren]

Re: Hedge hopping

never did it myself but i remember many who did.
sometimes the hedges where a bit to high and the ended up in them than going over them.

[havasack]

Re: Hedge hopping

We went hedge hopping, as much through the hedge as over it. There is still a hedge on the way to where my mam lived which hasn't quite recovered where we went through it about 30yrs ago.

Knocking on doors and running off was called knocky-nine-door where I come from and we played world cup singles where it was each man for himself with 1 goal and also world cup doubles where we'd pair up (last played on a beach in Ibiza when I was 30, I won so I'm our reigning world cup singles champion, a title I've held for close on 15yrs)

[culnara]

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Hedge Hopping ? Garden Hopping ?? back in the day we called it " The Grand National "

[Richard1978]

Re: Hedge hopping

One of my old friends used to do a few mad things like this, one was using a low springy rockery shrub as a trampoline.

On the way home from school a few houses had hedges at the front of the garden, & it was common to see someone being elbowed into one when they were least expecting it.