Playgrounds of yesteryear

[Roverlord off road spares]

I can remember the playgrounds of the 6os, and they are different to ones that are in use today, but found this vid of play grounds of even earlier years.
Wow! they were high and big!
It says playgrounds originated in 1837 by the Germans.

https://www.facebook.com/david.watkins.75098364/videos/2049596085302606/

[trog]

Oh ya ! Remember the burns on the exposed skin if I was the first down on a hot day !

[korg20000bc]

There used to be an awesome playground in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains. A big man four stories high that you could climb through with a slippery-dip out through his groin- perfect.

[Hall]

That video is so right. I remember the old steel school play ground equipment. From memory it was just sand underneath too. Also remember Mercurochrome, not so good memories. Lucky for me though I just lost a fair bit of bark, no broken bones.
Cheers Hall

[donh54]

You had sand!?!? Sissies! We had bitumen under ours!

[V8Ian]

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2018/03/44.jpg

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Mates and I used to get the train to central then the Ferry,, and spent our weekends here--
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2018/03/45.jpg

[1950landy]

Mates and I used to get the train to central then the Ferry,, and spent our weekends here--
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2018/03/45.jpg

Were was that Sandgate?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

Manly,, [smilebigeye]

[Fatso]

Manly,, [smilebigeye]

Used to love going to Manly on the ferry for a swim and a ride on the ghost train . [bigrolf][bigrolf]

[V8Ian]

^^^ Manly NSW, not the real one. [bighmmm]

[Fatso]

^^^ Manly NSW, not the real one. [bighmmm]

Thers only one Manly and that is Manly NSW [tonguewink]

[Pedro_The_Swift]

And the Fun Pier was AWESOME!! [bigrolf]

[Tote]

There used to be an awesome playground in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains. A big man four stories high that you could climb through with a slippery-dip out through his groin- perfect.

I remember the park at Blackheath fondly as well, it was a big day out to travel from near Bathurst on a special Saturday in a purple VH Valiant to go and swim in the pools there and play on the playground.
Mum and Dad patiently watching from under the trees above the pool while we dared each other to swim in the pool with the pontoons and the unpainted bottom. Spending the compulsory hour after lunch on the play equipment before we were allowed back in the water and getting very red at the end of the day made worse by the long ride home on vinyl seats.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2018/03/54.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/WH5qZt)Blackheath Pool (https://flic.kr/p/WH5qZt) by Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies (https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_mountains_library_-_local_studies/), on Flickr
Regards,
Tote

[loanrangie]

Biggest/best playground i ever saw was in or near Berri in SA, went on a school camp to the Flinders Ranges in 1982 and we stopped there for half a day.

[superquag]

You had sand!?!? Sissies! We had bitumen under ours!

Bitumen under yours ? Your were Lucky t' 'ave bitumen... all we 'ad were Abyss !!!

[bigwhistle][bigwhistle][bigwhistle][biggrin][bigwhistle][bigwhistle][bigwhistle]

[Aaron IIA]

Biggest/best playground i ever saw was in or near Berri in SA, went on a school camp to the Flinders Ranges in 1982 and we stopped there for half a day.That would be the Monash adventure playground, at Monash. It was all made by one man who was the local agriculture engineer. It had many large steel contraptions and even a form of hand pushed roller-coaster. Liability got passed to the council, who shut it down. It is now a sanitised children's adventure playground, compared to the adult's version it once was.

Aaron

[towe0609]

I nearly lost my life at that Monash playground as a kid ... my fathers instructions to me on the flying fox was ... "whatever you do, don't let go" ... unfortunately I still had a lot of momentum when I got to the end, but hung on as instructed, only to be flipped up at full speed into the tyres.

Lets just say I don't recall the event.

That playground was amazing in its hey day ... but I also understand why it didn't survive as it was.

[Colmoore]

Yep I loved that flying fox, and the giant swing at Monash.
If you're in SA, there's some pretty good slides at the adventure playground at St Kilda. No debates about 'the real St Kilda', this one just happens to be in Adelaide

[incisor]

I nearly drowned here, following my father over to the far shore

137067

know this spot Pedro?

[Pedro_The_Swift]

I nearly drowned here, following my father over to the far shore

137067

know this spot Pedro?

You have a good reason to remember it!!!

aparently I dont?

Hmmm,,,,