Thread: Playgrounds of yesteryear

Originally Posted by V8Ian

^^^ Manly NSW, not the real one.

Thers only one Manly and that is Manly NSW

And the Fun Pier was AWESOME!!

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

Blackheath Pool by Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies, on Flickr
Regards,
Tote

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.

Originally Posted by donh54

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

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

Originally Posted by 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.

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

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.

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