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Children play on the slide in the playground in Queen’s Park, Bolton.
Playground, Queen’s Park By Humphrey Spender - September 1937
- Copyright Bolton Council
- Image ref. 1993.83.11.09
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jeez! Look how high that slide is! Don’t I recall quite a large one in Moss Bank park when I was younger (90’s). Don’t get slides like that any more, they are now just 3 steps of the ground!
Health and safety! 😉
I have slid down that slide. So high then not like that now.
I remember climbing up the steps of that slide , the problem was that I had no head for heights even at age three and it was very very high! When it was my turn to go down , I just couldn`t do it and had to push my way past the long queue behind me. They were non too pleased at the “scaredy cat” and let me know it!
yes Moss bank park had a similar one in 1970s/80s but it was put into the side of a small hill
I actually fell from the top of one of these slides, causing damage and epilepsy…. so sometimes Health and Safety are there for a good reason !
There was always a big queue for the slide in summertime, someone on every step. As lads we would slide down holding a candle behind us to polish the slide to make it faster. I havw slid off the end several times even when you put your feet on the floor at the bottom to slow down. This was when I was around 1947 – 1950