I was a kid It was centuries ago And i do not remember grab handles being on these mats
The infamous slip n slideI believe you can actually purchase them these days as manufactured items. Doesn't beat a big bit of cardboard going down a dry glass slope though.
The infamous slip n slide
http://www.wham-o.com/product/slip_n_slide.html
Responsible for many backyard injuries. My sister and I both have scars from that one!
Do kids still make their own water slides by putting large sheets of plastic on a slope with a running hosepipe at the top? .. just wondering is all .. I don't want the police to get worried
Have you seen the cost of water of late....???????
Early 2015. Nobody had a water meter back in 1976.Late '76 or early 2015?
Early 2015. Nobody had a water meter back in 1976.
I believe you can actually purchase them these days as manufactured items. Doesn't beat a big bit of cardboard going down a dry glass slope though.
Yeah, my best friend cracked open his head on a chunk of concrete left underneath the climbing frame (after I'd warned him to be careful). I had to run off and get help. He was very grateful to me afterwards.
Wouldn't be allowed these days.
There was a park just up the road that had a rocket shaped structure made of steel with two levels - each had a slide/slippery dip. The council took it down as it was "too dangerous" - looking back, the higher level slide was about two or three metres off the ground at the top end, perhaps it was too dangerous! It also contained the best bit of graffiti I've ever seen - "If you notice this notice, you will notice this notice is not worth noticing - so don't notice it!". Thirty years on, it still makes me smile when I think of it!
they would hang by their knees on the top of the frame, then let go, flicking themselves around while dropping, to land on their feet
yes! I did this! and also one leg over a bar balanced at the knee and then spinning around it as fast as possible!
'Stretch' usually we used a penknife, throw it in the ground so the next person has to stretch to it, bit like Twister, but with a lethal edge, i used a dart and it ended up in a friends head, she was lucky, i couldnt find the knife that day.
Harlow bouncy castle death: Girl named as Summer Grant
A seven-year-old girl who died after a bouncy castle she was playing in was blown away in Harlow has been named by police as Summer Grant, from Norwich.
- 11 minutes ago
- Essex
A woman, 24, and a man, 27, have been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter by gross negligence, and bailed.
Seven-year-old Summer Grant had been enjoying a family day out at Harlow Town Park in Essex when the inflatable was blown away, Chelmsford crown court was told.
“While Summer was in the bouncy castle, it blew away from its moorings, bounced 300 metres down a hill; having hit a tree, it came to rest.”
Witnesses described seeing the bouncy castle “cartwheeling in the air, cartwheeling down a hill and only stopping when it hit a fence”.
What happened NF - can you give us a fuller account? Good on you for wading in..
Goodness sakes...I remember doing stuff that seemed completely normal as a 7-8-9-10 year old etc that would terrify me these days - even the thought of it boggles my mind.
You must've done the 'put [old] penny on the tracks then try to find it after a train's gone over it'.
As kids me and my friends made a 'den' out of hundreds of used car tyres at the back of a disused tyre fitters place, we stacked tons of tyres up over the course of one summer only for it to collapse trapping a friend and breaking his arm, we ran and got an adult who called the fire brigade and they dug him out then gave us a good talking to, told our parents which resulted in a sound thrashing from my father.Goodness sakes...
You are so spot on with this.
Brought to mind, how often we used to climb onto the roof of a nearby factory.
The attraction was said roof being completely flat and covered with sheets of corrugated plastic.
When you ran along it, you could make an echo sound, because of the drop beneath.
Pretty certain there was a contemporary news report, of someone falling to their death, when a similar roof covering couldn't take their weight.
The other thing I have strong memories of, was climbing up a drainpipe to reach an elevated space where we could play.
Although terrified - it must have been around 30 feet upwards - you simply had to comply or face ridicule.
Used to also be the best at jumping between roofs of aligned 'bin sheds'.
Would have been a fair distance to cover and necessitated a, 'runny jump'.
Right enough, when you think back on the mental risks taken for granted...
As kids me and my friends made a 'den' out of hundreds of used car tyres at the back of a disused tyre fitters place, we stacked tons of tyres up over the course of one summer only for it to collapse trapping a friend and breaking his arm, we ran and got an adult who called the fire brigade and they dug him out then gave us a good talking to, told our parents which resulted in a sound thrashing from my father.