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Post by Sam Tyler on Sept 2, 2021 9:05:39 GMT
For some reason seeing after this thread again the manufacturer's name of the tall slides came to mind: Wicksteed. I remember that the name was incorporated into every cast iron step on the slides as well as nameplates on other equipment. The company have been manufacturing playground equipment for over 100 years and include a short history with a handful of photos on their website: >>> Wicksteed Heritage <<< Sam.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2021 18:28:16 GMT
Love the 70s concrete urban stairwell.. Reminds me of the one from 'In from the cold' off The Sweeney! I find it strange why health & safety, in all areas, in the 1970s was utter rubbish, from construction of high rise buildings, public transport to simple things like slides in playgrounds! I know back then that they didn't have certain materials like rubberised tarmac! But them big tall high slides were lethal!! If ya came off at great height. Maybe that's it! Regarding the worsed case senario, in that It simply didn't really happen. I mean even on high construction of buildings people just wore a flat cap lol. But we do live in an age of where its so natural for everybody to be sueing each other for compensation claims.
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Post by Three Litre on Sept 5, 2021 7:49:24 GMT
Love the 70s concrete urban stairwell.. Reminds me of the one from 'In from the cold' off The Sweeney! I find it strange why health & safety, in all areas, in the 1970s was utter rubbish, from construction of high rise buildings, public transport to simple things like slides in playgrounds! I know back then that they didn't have certain materials like rubberised tarmac! But them big tall high slides were lethal!! If ya came off at great height. Maybe that's it! Regarding the worsed case senario, in that It simply didn't really happen. I mean even on high construction of buildings people just wore a flat cap lol. But we do live in an age of where its so natural for everybody to be sueing each other for compensation claims. GC I don't understand that either, although H&S has now swung too far the other way, in some circumstances. Many deaths and injuries could have been avoided by simple measures years ago. Now you have organisations like schools trying to remove every last ioata of risk from kids lives to the detriment of their development. Individually people are quite smart, it's the organisations and groups around us all that are dumb.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Sept 5, 2021 16:55:37 GMT
These play areas do look like accidents waiting to happen with all the hard surfaces, would be interesting to know whether there were more accidents then compared to now.
In the case of the slide featured on 'Angels' it looks designed to fit in with the surrounding architecture.
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Post by Cartman on Sept 5, 2021 17:24:36 GMT
There was one in Radcliffe, off Bright Street, which me and a few other lads used to play on, on the way home from junior school in the 60s. It had a tall slide, swings and a big heavy roundabout, all on a concrete base.
Lots of fun on it, don't remember falling off anything.
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Post by Three Litre on Sept 5, 2021 20:44:24 GMT
There was one in Radcliffe, off Bright Street, which me and a few other lads used to play on, on the way home from junior school in the 60s. It had a tall slide, swings and a big heavy roundabout, all on a concrete base. Lots of fun on it, don't remember falling off anything. Probably because the impact affected your memory Carty! Remember fireworks in 60's, they were lethal as well. They had ones that had little wings that you stood on a fence post and then retired, ideally to the house next door as they flew across the garden at head height.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2021 15:28:09 GMT
I guess as a kid growing up in the 70s, the playground/parks were just a small part in all the things that were done! Due to literally spending so much time, playing outside in quarrys and waste land etc, but is also dependent on the area and location, one lives, so where I lived I was just spoilt for choice and would be gone for hours, in quarrys, hills, fields, but if you lived say in blocks of flats then the local typical 70s park next to it or near by is gonna be obviously ya main choice. Kids these days as a rule live such a different life, and personally my kids when growing up have lived a completey different lifestyle as in wanting to be, most of the time staying in, yes the Internet and sociall media as so much to answer for and I also feel that the young people of today grow out of parks etc at a lot younger age than we did!
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