Things you used to play on at the park

[scotchmist]

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My local park in Glasgow had all the items mentioned in previous posts and yes some of them could be "a potential death trap" but none more so than the dreaded "Cheese Cutter". This was a long steel bar approximately 15" in diameter and about 12' long, seats were mounted on it with grab handles, this in turn was suspended at either end by supports attached to a set of double bearings mounted on a frame about 8 feet above the ground, about five feet above the seats on the steel bar, so you could actually stand up and get your wee fingers crunched to pulp if they got stuck in the bearing mechanism! This bar would swing from side to side suspended on the supports at great speed and if you happened to be in the right spot at one end of the Cutter at the wrong time, you would get your wee teeth smashed into the back of your head! Happy Days! Pix anybody?

[xmark1234]

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wicthes hat was another of my favs not seen one off them since i was young

[Trickyvee]

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Saltwell Park in Gateshead once had this beauty to play in! I never went there myself but many of my friends remember it. It's a 017 Vickers Viscount for all of you aviation fans. Removed in 1993.

There was a near identical 'play plane' at Lambton Leasure Park which I have mentioned in another thread. I did get to play in that one once.

[darren]

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wonderful pics victor we never had anything like that all our slides and swings are gone a very long time back.
they replaced the swings and slides with a bowling green.

our park was called the pleasure gardens.
well actually we had 2 the other was massive it had like a velodrome but outside made of tarmac its sadly long gone.


can u remember how long ago it was 15 20 yrs.

[victorbrunswick]

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The park next to my old Middle School had a two or three storey slide that looked like a rocketship which is long gone and another park in my area has an old jet fighter plane covered in concrete.

Here's what the rocketship looked like:



And the fighter jet...

[Trickyvee]

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Ha!, I remember one of those at a school I went to.....I couldn't see the point in it personally.

It was pretty pointless. Only thing you could do was run through it and it always smelled of wee. Back then the school had no fences and anybody could get into the playground over night. We sometimes went down after hours to whizz around on our bikes. Other kids wee'd inside the saddle!

[amethyst]

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Swings,roundabout,slides,seasaw.I also liked those boat swings they used to have on beaches in the 60s

[Trickyvee]

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[ATTACH=CONFIG]3641[/ATTACH] Happy days playing in the park on these! you should all check out this page on fb http://www.facebook.com/70s80sKidsThatsHowWeRolled lots of memories on there too!

I was in a small village in the Borders the other week and spotted one of those horses in a playground (ok yes I had a sneaky go ). Never realised they still existed, not sure if it was a modern version or a genuine vintage.

A friend also posted this picture of a giant slide. Can't remember anything as spectacular as this myself but it must have been terrifying!

[HG]

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Great pics Paulos

[Paulos]

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These pics are not my park but similar to what we use to have.
All the classic park equipment has gone now but we use to play on.

A classic style roundabout
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Those of you that had one like this, did you ever lie down on the lower part and play a game where you dropped and picked up sticks?

We also had one of those five person rocking horses
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We also had:
A large paddling pool, which in winter we would see if we could walk across the ice on top of it!
An old tractor
A very high slide, of course set in concrete (none of this H&S nonsense) of which I can remember ambulances coming out to pick up kids who had fallen off it!
Of course swings
A fort made which concrete blocks
Tunnels made with large concrete tubes.

It was a great park (and still is).

Just gone through my photo archive
Here is a long range shot of the park where I live in the 70's you can just make out just how high the slide we had was!
The wooden fence is the old outdoor swimming pool.



Heres also a great pic of me from 1974 showing our old classic style roundabout



And another of me 1975 I think at the top of the tall slide

[battyrat]

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There used to be several climbing frames in our town park.One of which was made in the shape of a tank to replace a real one they had removed years earlier.The original tank was given to the town just after the first war.Both of the climbing frames,especially the very big one which was castle shaped with turrets was removed years ago.Then there was the wooden fort which was fairly big.Long gone.It was made out of old telegraph poles driven into the ground just like those model forts we had as a kid.I can remember running about in this thing with my old cap guns.It even had a look out that you could climb up into which was usually where the big kids used to hang out.It was situated in isolation away from everything else in the park.That went in the 70's due to mis use by glue sniffers.
I never played on it but used to watch other people sail boats there was the old concrete boating lake/pond.It was always there as a kid but it was eventually left to rot end eventually drained.The site later became a large enclosed duck pond with fountains.Looks a right mess now.

On the estate I grew up was a small park with big metal roundabout,slide,swings,bars,etc.All gone now and replaced with safety play things.I fell off of the old slide as a kid and done my ankle in.It only had very narrow railings at the top and it was very high or seemed that way.In the summer the metal slide itself used to burn as you slid down it.Happy days.

[retromad]

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Happy days playing in the park on these! you should all check out this page on fb http://www.facebook.com/70s80sKidsThatsHowWeRolled lots of memories on there too!

[hazel]

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Sorry if this has already been talked about. Did anyone have any particularly good or unique things at their local park that they used to play on? Before health and safety really kicked in, my playground at the park was built on concrete and the 'big' slide wasn't caged. All things that used to be there were taken away long ago and a new one built with less exciting things. I'm not sure if caged big slides even exist anymore?! Apart from that we had the old wooden roundabout and rocking horse. There was also a rocking boat that I loved and I think was pretty unique (I never saw one at any other park I went to anyway). It was basically a rocking horse but you sat in it facing opposite ways holding bars. : )

My local park had one of these boats!! You could either sit inside it or on one of the ends, which had strange little periscope type things on them (painted red/blue) to hold on to. I used to love it, but I think they took it away eventually.

[havasack]

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The classic style roundabout pic as posted by Paulos was exactly as I described earlier.

[maxmix]

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I remember in the local "half way house" they had concrete rings embedded in the ground, and they could be any thing, Tanks, Bunkers, Houses, Ships, You Name it!!! Somehow, I don't think kids nowadays would have the imagination, sad, but I think, true........