Parks

[amethyst]

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I only remember when the swings slides sea saws etc were erected on top of the concrete area,now its bark or sand pits health and safety

[Mulletino]

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Some of the modern parks do have great stuff though, there's one in NZ where my wife's Grandad lives that has a big wooden mouse wheel to run in and a couple of flying foxes (death slides) among other cool things.

[fynger]

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Here's a walk through of the Rec ( park ) we used to play on as kids -- long gone sad to say, this is a model iv'e built of it....... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji-EeqPWLQ0

[big kid]

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thats cool fynger.

[fynger]

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thats cool fynger.

Cheers....if you go to my youtube channel a lot more of my models are there too

[trip2themoon]

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I miss the spider web roundabouts. I remember some older guys wedging a plank into the spider web roundabout, this got it going at a ridiculous RPM. You'd feel it alright if you came off it then. That got taken away along with the helter skelter and the gyroscope climbing frame. I heard rumours that a kid got into the centre of the gyroscope and was crushed, so that was why it was taken away.

[darren]

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should only have got rid of the grroscope one then as it was that one the kid got stuck in altho accidents do happen like that.


Not sure if i remember spider web like roundabouts.
Dont remember any parks i went to having them.

i miss the spider web roundabouts. I remember some older guys wedging a plank into the spider web roundabout, this got it going at a ridiculous rpm. You'd feel it alright if you came off it then. That got taken away along with the helter skelter and the gyroscope climbing frame. I heard rumours that a kid got into the centre of the gyroscope and was crushed, so that was why it was taken away.

[trip2themoon]

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should only have got rid of the grroscope one then as it was that one the kid got stuck in altho accidents do happen like that.


Not sure if i remember spider web like roundabouts.
Dont remember any parks i went to having them.

Not sure if spider's web is the right name for it. Managed to find a pic:

[Richard1978]

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In Beaumaris there is a park that has a nice mixture of old & new equipment, which my Niece enjoyed playing on.

Some parts of the town seem to be in a turn of the 1960s time warp, in a good way, it would make a great filming location.