1/35 Modern Civilian Resin Model Kits Figure GK Unpainted Unassembled

1/35 Modern Civilian Resin Model Kits Figure GK Unpainted Unassembled

1/35 Modern Civilian Resin Model Kits Figure GK Unpainted Unassembled

1/35 Modern Civilian Resin Model Kits Figure GK Unpainted Unassembled

 1/35 Modern Civilian Resin Model Kits Figure GK Unpainted Unassembled 

             

Scale: 1/35

Material: Resin

1/35 Modern Civilian Resin Model Kits Figure GK Unpainted Unassembled

History of Adventure Playgrounds.

 Lollard Street Adventure Playground.

The story of adventure play in the UK is very much a London story. London is the spiritual home of adventure play in the UK –  the place where the concept of ‘junk playgrounds’ arrived from Denmark courtesy of the landscape architect and children’s rights campaigner, Lady Allen of Hurtwood, in the years following World War II.

 Lollard Street Adventure Playground.

In the early 1950s several more permanent Adventure Playgrounds were established ­one in Crawley in 1954; Grimsby and Lollard Street, Lambeth in 1955; Liverpool in1956; all started entirely by voluntary effort, the last two being supported by the National Playing Fields Association. Gradually the concept took root in Britain, and more Adventure Playgrounds were set up. At first they were generally initiated by determined individuals, but increasingly they came to be distinguished by the close involvement of the local communities that they served. Local Adventure Playground Associations were set up and local management committees were formed.Lady Allen of Hurtwood always stressed that unlike conventional playgrounds they should not be concreted over: it was essential to have plenty of bare earth on which to dig, build and muck about.Indeed, the huge wooden constructions erected by staff and kids together out of builder’s yard scrap and planted deep in the ground have become their trademark. These homemade structures are a combination of tree-house, walkways, and enormous slides, festooned with nets, ropes, swings, old rubber tyres, and often dazzlingly painted: ambitious, imaginative, and fun. The very first playground, Lollard Street, in Lambeth, started with little more than a workman’s wooden hut. But gradually playgrounds have acquired bigger and better buildings, an area of hardstanding for ball games, and variations of their own.

text by the  Lollard Street Adventure Playground.

http://www.lollardstplay.org.uk