Forest of Dean FHT Forum - 100 Years Ago https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/ Connecting Forest of Dean Researchers World-Wide en 100 Years Ago (reply) The other miscreants, George and James Brain, may have been the sons of Amos Brain, family living Ruardean Road in 1881.

]]> https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=25165 https://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=25165 Sat, 08 May 2010 09:30:49 +0000 Generalreporter Pitch and Toss (reply) A game of skill and chance in which the player who pitches a coin nearest to a mark has the first chance to toss all the coins, winning those that land heads up.

The Australian game called two-up would have derived from pitch and toss. It was very popular game in the goldfields and even now is played in the Casinos.

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This clipping from an unknown paper. Police Court Reports about youths being fined for gambling and for playing pitch and toss on a Sunday. I think it would have been printed about 1980 as Meshach and Abednego Selby were born 1867 and 1871 and described as youths. They were the sons of John Selby, born 1830 in Hewelsfield.

Sheila Selby

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