Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,321
#1
Without getting into the rights (not many) and wrongs (plenty) of DDC's action over the Aycliffe play area I thought that I might mention my youth.
As a child, my favourite pastime was playing cowboys and indians on the Peter Street bombsite. We though nothing of hiding in the crumbling basements ready to ambush any rustlers or other miscreants. Sometimes the chap who kept his coal lorry in a dilapidated building at the end of Spring Gardens would lob a half brick at us if he thought we were encroaching too much onto his territory.
As far as I remember, no-one got hurt at all, except in my case when a banger prematurely went off in my hand one Guy Fawkes night!
All this in the days before 'elf & safety were invented. Halcyon days, any other gems anyone?
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#2
we always played on bomb sites as kids, there were a few minor injuries but nothing too serious.
there was one tragedy when a boy seriously injured himself in a fall from a bombed cinema.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
some of the public are not so nice now Terry and young mums have to keep them with them.
We done what you did sleep in tents up the hills made our own bows but they can not do it in the days we live in now and it is very sad but so are the laws we need to get back the law as it was even with hanging in some cases we are far to soft today but we will never get back to what it was all the MPS to day think about how to stay in office and that's why we do not see law and order as it was.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#4
I doubt people are any worse than when we were children it is simple we now hear about the baddies as we are more informed by the media. In the past it was the local paper once a week or gossip now we have local radio and tv plus sites like this, Facebook, Twitter etc.
We used to play on some derelict tennis courts all concrete and weeds also Tooting Bec Common in London which was only a couple of streets away, what might have been bomb sites had been cleared and turned into allotments.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#6
a strange one if you ask me.
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
- Posts: 2,438
#7
Not sure that a "secluded" area is good for a play area, childrens safety has to be paramount and play areas do attract some of the lower forms of society!
Audere est facere.
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
#8
There's loads of rules and recommendations as to what makes a safe playground, DDC officers are well up on what is required as we know from trying to get one in Lydden.
Some info here from
Fields in Trusthoward mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#11
first I've heard of it being open howard.comes to think of it I don't know where it is.
Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
- Posts: 1,031
#12
Don't worry Brian, I think you're probably a bit too old for it!
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#13
not for me ray,for the grandkids when they visit.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#14
If you shout it from the highest hills, and even tell the golden daffodils, then surely your secret garden is no secret any more.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#15
Like Howard I'm fed up of mentioning the lack of a play area in Priory.
But as a child(like many others) we climbed the swing frames, fell off but you learnt not to do it again!!!!
the fear these days is parents wrap there children in cotton wool and don't grow up eating worms etc lol; probably helped are immune system lol;
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