what ever happened to scrambles

[kpstar]

I used to love Saturdays as the church quite often had a wedding and there would be a scramble.

what ever happened to scrambles? Do they still happen? I remember ending up with a few good bruises from scrambles.

[tobester]

what ever happened to scrambles? Do they still happen? I remember ending up with a few good bruises from scrambles.[/quote]

I remember my dad doing a scramble at my sisters wedding in 1993(ish) and noone reacted.

I used to love them too

[Fossil]

Had to split this toipc. Great subject. Do they still happen? any pictures?

Fossil

[HollowHorn]

[Schiehallion]

Scrambles were brilliant. Best one I was in was when Jock Stein threw one after his daughter had got married in the church on Rutherglen Main Street. There was a big crowd and plenty of coins were thrown.

[Simba]

I remember them too, and I'm only 20! Remember participating in a few.

[dazza]

I think most kids these days would be mortified at the thought of picking coppers up off the street. They probably just use coppers to throw at bus windows anyway.

[DickyHart]

scrambles where a laugh, where brothers would punch lumps out of each other for pennies, funny how the ice cream van was always just around the corner five minutes later.

[glasgowken]

Last one I saw was about 20 years ago

[mooshimooshisan]

Me and my brother were such fans of the scramble at Kilwinning abbey in our youth that I had a scramble at my wedding 2 years ago (almost to the day). Admittedly, most people wondered what the hell was going on, but it raised a few smiles. Never found out who got the pound coin...

[scallopboy]

When we were kids we'd cycle about looking for weddings on a Saturday and if we saw a wedding car cycle like hell to keep up with it. That and gingie bottles of building sites kept us in sweets and comics and kept the pocket money for serious stuff like Airfix kits.

[ibtg]

We had a scramble at our wedding, back in the 70's, but my parents still talk about the scramble they had in the late 40s.

My Mum's brother was the Best Man and he had a pocket full of silver for tips (This was the 40s!) and the other pocket full of copper for the scramble. Guess which pocket he emptied at the scramble....

[BobK]

I had one at my wedding in 1998.
There was only 3 kids there. Apparently, they just took their time picking up all the coins that I threw down.
A bit different to the last one I was in many years ago. I came out of that with 62p, a black eye....oh aye, and a broken arm!!!
The good old days.

[Local Hero]

I had one at my wedding in 1998.
I came out of that with 62p, a black eye....oh aye, and a broken arm!!!
The good old days.

And I guess there may be a reason it died down.. who wants to come back from their honeymoon to a pile of letters off some lawyered up wee ned who was 'struck in the eye by a carelessly tossed coin'. oh the mental anguish and suffering.. not even spending the coin would have helped that!