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Strangely Brown said:
Voldemort said:
Well apart, of course, for the fence round it. You should go to specsavers.
indeed!Our local park was a Health and Safety inspectors' nightmare. We had a 'Witch's Hat' (larger than the one posted above) which the "big kids" were regularly tipping off the top of the pole. We also had 'The Jerker' similar to the one pictured, and ours didn't have a fence around it either. Both were located on a hard tarmac playground surface. Then there was a 'Spider's Web'...
...exactly like this one, except that ours had initially been placed over a grass surface which, through constant use, had been worn away to reveal much larger gravel/aggregate pieces with jagged edges sticking out of the ruts.
And to top things off, we had this...
...very Steam Roller, pictured here after it had been hauled out of where it had partially sunk into the grass, prior to it being removed from the park. I've heard that it has since been restored to running order, but back then it was just a jagged, rusty place of fun, and a breeding ground for Tetanus.
I seem to recall all the "dangerous" play equipment being removed around the time the Roller was taken away. The site of the playground eventually became a primary school as more and more of what had been a wonderful, lively, well used park disappeared under ever encroaching development.
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Edited by yellowjack on Wednesday 8th March 10:54
In my day, we had bomb sites, derelict buildings, unexploded ordinance, building works with trains and tracks in them, lorry parks, and such. For us kids in Greenwich, there was always the Park, the museums, the Heath and, for those out for a bit of fun, the river. There were always Sun Tugs moored up with no one on them, lighters to play in, and, during the week, crews who were refugees from the war years, especially those in occupied East European states, only too pleased to spoil kids to remind them of what they had lost. I was taken for a sail up the Thames one time on a tug, from Greenwich to Tower Pier and back.
A lighter with coal on board caught fire. All it did was smoke, but as coal was removed, it burst into flame. No fire brigade in attendance, no cordons miles away, no one bothering to move us on. We were hosed down at one point for getting, not so much too near as in the way.
My favourite was the shunting yards, note yards, we had a choice. There were those at Greenwich station, which were policed, but without commitment, and those at Horn Lane. There was movement and it was fun jumping out of the trucks. By the riverside, there were massive cranes used to life coal from lighters and smaller boats. Of a weekend these were left unlocked. They might as well put arrows on them.
Roundabouts with encircling concrete? Do me a favour. They were for girls.
A lighter with coal on board caught fire. All it did was smoke, but as coal was removed, it burst into flame. No fire brigade in attendance, no cordons miles away, no one bothering to move us on. We were hosed down at one point for getting, not so much too near as in the way.
My favourite was the shunting yards, note yards, we had a choice. There were those at Greenwich station, which were policed, but without commitment, and those at Horn Lane. There was movement and it was fun jumping out of the trucks. By the riverside, there were massive cranes used to life coal from lighters and smaller boats. Of a weekend these were left unlocked. They might as well put arrows on them.
Roundabouts with encircling concrete? Do me a favour. They were for girls.
yellowjack said:
indeed!Our local park was a Health and Safety inspectors' nightmare. We had a 'Witch's Hat' (larger than the one posted above) which the "big kids" were regularly tipping off the top of the pole. We also had 'The Jerker' similar to the one pictured, and ours didn't have a fence around it either. Both were located on a hard tarmac playground surface.
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