"What was your fav thing in the playground slide swings etc...After much thought I will go with slide....."
I loved the witches hat - total health and safety nightmare these days so I guess they are all long gone...
also the horse or boat... either would attempt to fling you off/out lol but the goal was always to go faster/higher with everyone else
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The old wooden roundabouts with metal divide segments. Someone would push it as fast as possible, then we’d hang off upside down your feet tucked under the metal bar to try and be the first to pick up the object that had been placed underneath the roundabout. Or the old fashioned swings that you could get up and over the top bar.
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"The old wooden roundabouts with metal divide segments. Someone would push it as fast as possible, then we’d hang off upside down your feet tucked under the metal bar to try and be the first to pick up the object that had been placed underneath the roundabout. Or the old fashioned swings that you could get up and over the top bar.
Healthy & safety would have heart failure today "
Chipped teeth comes to mind |
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"Massive metal roundabout thing that would fling you off with force when it reached a certain speed.
It wasn't for the faint-hearted."
We had that for years you had to be careful not to be pinned on it.
Older ones stopping you getting off and it being spun hard.
Caught by the bar a few times that hurt but it didnt stop me.
Spun it myself but would stop when they had enough.
Had large metal slide and the high swings which we all swung over the metal bars often.
Slide got removed and they replaced it with a slide log climbing frame well that was just as dangerous 
swings got damaged by the younger generation than me always been mean by swinging swings to the top bar.
And ripping a bar out of the ground. |
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My local playground, had an old steam engine*, in the playground and all the local kids LOVED playin on it, even had the levers n stuff still on it.
*coal mining town.
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"My local playground, had an old steam engine*, in the playground and all the local kids LOVED playin on it, even had the levers n stuff still on it.
*coal mining town.
Have photos somewhere
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Puts Thomas the tank engine to shame |
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The roundabout. It was ace until the moped trend caught on and parents had it removed after pulling their mangled broken kids out the surrounding trees. Sad times amigo. Sad times |
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"The roundabout. It was ace until the moped trend caught on and parents had it removed after pulling their mangled broken kids out the surrounding trees. Sad times amigo. Sad times"
What moped trend? I think this missed us. Our roundabout was removed because folk kept having sex on it. |
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I quite enjoyed the swings. I did like the slide too but I have always had large thighs and getting a bit wedged half way up a big fuck off slide is no joke when there are other kids raving to get on it and you’re holding them up. |
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"The roundabout. It was ace until the moped trend caught on and parents had it removed after pulling their mangled broken kids out the surrounding trees. Sad times amigo. Sad times
What moped trend? I think this missed us. Our roundabout was removed because folk kept having sex on it."
There where loads of videos popping up on on various sites about a decade or so back. Basically youd have the idiot teenages sit on the roundabout then one idiot teen with his moped would put the back wheel of said moped on the roundabout and rev up.
The laws of physics are a bitch and dont care how stupid 17 year olds are.
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The swings, always loved the swings, it was like flying. We had some massive slides built on concrete mounds, super slippy metal slides that you would shoot off the end of, but they burnt your bum in the summer heat   |
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"My local playground, had an old steam engine*, in the playground and all the local kids LOVED playin on it, even had the levers n stuff still on it.
*coal mining town.
Have photos somewhere
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Puts Thomas the tank engine to shame |
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"The old wooden roundabouts with metal divide segments. Someone would push it as fast as possible, then we’d hang off upside down your feet tucked under the metal bar to try and be the first to pick up the object that had been placed underneath the roundabout. Or the old fashioned swings that you could get up and over the top bar.
Healthy & safety would have heart failure today
Chipped teeth comes to mind"
Few deep cuts, scrapes and bruises but nothing broken or chipped, surprisingly  |
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