"Lost World of Fancy."

An essay on street games played under the lights of Rushden shops during Bates's youth.

Bates bemoans that "another war, a million motor cars and a Welfare State have produced streets in which children cannot play and, what is perhaps worse, children who have not the slightest desire to play in them even if they could."

An undated typescript (attached) for a radio broadcast touches on the same topics (no broadcast date has been identified). Bates also wrote about street games in his autobiography (The Vanished World, p. 47) and in the story "Sally Go Round the Moon."

In Everybody's Weekly (London, March 27, 1954, pp. 24-25 and p. 46, attached).