Parks

[amethyst]

Parks as a kid was a fun place to visit.The swings,slides,sea saw,roundabout.Keep off the grass signs.Maybe a fountain with railings around,the fish pond.The lawn green bowling,tennis courts,hide and seek in the bushes,the shop would be open in the summer for a drink or ice creams.Having a picnic,the park benches,or lying on the grass enjoying the warm sunshine.

[darren]

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Sadly most of the parks i went to are no longer around.

One park is gone a very long time ago like at least 15 yrs and the other is not well taken care of at all.
But yes ive fond memories of the slides monkey bars swings etc.

Could just be there for hrs and hrs seeing others on the slides etc

it seems now the p.c brigade are so strict certain things are too dangerous to have.

[Richard1978]

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Sadly most of the parks i went to are no longer around.

One park is gone a very long time ago like at least 15 yrs and the other is not well taken care of at all.
But yes ive fond memories of the slides monkey bars swings etc.

Could just be there for hrs and hrs seeing others on the slides etc

it seems now the p.c brigade are so strict certain things are too dangerous to have.

The park I used to go to has a lot of equipment changed but still looks like fun to use.

I guess it's better than being sued by parents.

[zabadak]

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Used to love the Witch's Hat roundabout which was banned decades ago...

[victorbrunswick]

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The little park near my house used to have a corkscrew slide just like this one which was ten or twelve feet tall. Sad to say, it's long gone. Now it has the boring plastic playground equipment and foam padding on the ground. Now I have a major fear of heights but back then I had no problem going up on that slide.

[victorbrunswick]

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Sadly most of the parks i went to are no longer around.

One park is gone a very long time ago like at least 15 yrs and the other is not well taken care of at all.
But yes ive fond memories of the slides monkey bars swings etc.

Could just be there for hrs and hrs seeing others on the slides etc

it seems now the p.c brigade are so strict certain things are too dangerous to have.

Now all the parks have this kind of stuff. Note the foam padding.

[darren]

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This looks fantastic never had anything like this in the parks i was at.
Plastic equipment would burst probably.

I still say keep to the normal equipment.

Having a fall or a graze was part of the fun of going on swings etc.

Id many a cut knee.
Was a bit accident prone i was.:d

looks like two corkscrew slides the yellow one and the white blue and red one behind it.

the little park near my house used to have a corkscrew slide just like this one which was ten or twelve feet tall. Sad to say, it's long gone. Now it has the boring plastic playground equipment and foam padding on the ground. Now i have a major fear of heights but back then i had no problem going up on that slide.

[Arran]

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What about dog turds and broken bottles?

A local park once had a bandstand that looked like the Kremlin but it was demolished before my time.

[victorbrunswick]

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The same park near my house was originally a vacant lot with dirt piles and an abandoned caravan which we used to play in all the time. When it was turned into the park around 1975 I was actually a bit disappointed. Now my housemates sometimes take their two-year-old daughter there to play.

[big kid]

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still got the parks near me. they've changed a lot though since i was a kid. they're nowhere near as good as they used to be.

[Twocky61]

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hide and seek in the bushes.

Talking of which.................................


But as this is a family forum............................................. ............. lol

[darren]

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Yeah same here where iam.

A lot of its due to health and safety the parks are not as good as they where where iam.

still got the parks near me. They've changed a lot though since i was a kid. They're nowhere near as good as they used to be.

[Mulletino]

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There were two parks local to me I used to go to:

Park 1.

Had those wooden flat swings, with some plastic ones, and a set of Baby swings. It also had the tallest metal slide, where the stairs and slide were on the same side, with a metal cage at the top which kids used to climb on, the whole slide was metal and was on concrete. It was great though, you'd get some good speed up on it. There was a climbing frame, as they all were in the 70s, on concrete with broken bottles at the bottom to encourage you not to fall off.

Park 2.

Also had the same swings and a climbing frame, had a wooden and metal roundabout and a witches hat, that thing fell off a couple of times when we got a bit rough on it. I seem to remember at one point they also had one of those wooden/metal long horses with seats on that slid back and forth.

A park near my mate in Norwich had sand at the bottom of their slide, I remember at the time thinking that was odd.

[zabadak]

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The ones I used to go to are still there (last time I looked, about 2 years ago)...

[Richard1978]

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I recently had a walk in the park I used to use a lot when I was young. Most of the equipment has been changed, but I'm sure I would enjoyed playing on it if it was around when I was younger.