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When playgrounds were perilous - and we loved every moment of it
Playgrounds in the 1970s featured large metal and wood equipment with no safety surfaces, causing burns, splinters, cuts, and lost teeth, reflecting lax safety standards of the era.
- In the 1970s, public playgrounds were jam-packed with potential hazards and featured large metal-and-wood apparatus like oversized slides and climbing frames demanding a head for heights.
- Materials-Wise, most apparatus was metal or wood rather than soft plastics, and without soft-fall surfaces, hard landings were routine in playgrounds of the era.
- Hot metal surfaces often caused burns and grazes on metal slides, while roundabouts' high-speed spinning hurled children off and seesaws and swings produced hard impacts on concrete.
- Parents commonly treated minor injuries with Germolene and sticky plasters, and those scrapes plus fending off local older children are recalled fondly as part of growing up.
- Modern playground equipment uses bright plastics and soft-fall surfaces, a clear change from open, unfenced older playgrounds exposed to passersby and older youths.
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When playgrounds were perilous - and we loved every moment of it
Emma Brennan looks back at the lack of health and safety in 1970s children's playgrounds and why she enjoyed it anyway
·Scotland, United Kingdom
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