Ninety Years Ago Taking a Risk Was Part of the Fun

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1935: Wicksteed's slide was made to a new design out of steel and wood, with a curve at the end to slow children down


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With their rickety ladders leading to a steep descent with little or nothing to hold on to, the wooden slides of 1922 would have today’s health and safety zealots scrambling for their clipboards.


But the children, in their school ties, caps and shorts, seem perfectly happy to ride down the polished wooden planks.

These scenes were captured shortly after Britain’s first slide was constructed – and is a world away from the far smaller metal slide with side rails found in the same playground today.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130923/Historians-discover-worlds-childrens-slide-built-90-years-ago-plank-wood.html#ixzz1sM9hNHBP