Playbox at Parkers Piece, 7-9 July, 15-16 July 2023
FREE playing out event
Playbox at Cambridge Leisure Park, 17-18 June 2023
Playbox is a 20ft shipping container out of which tumble all sorts of free, playful activities. It touched down at Cambridge Leisure Park 17-18 June 2023. Find out what happened there, by clicking here.
Playbox at CB1, 23-25 June 2023
FREE playing out event
Rollerskating on St Thomas’s Road, 1965
By: The Smiley Brothers Brothers Martin, Paul and Derek Smiley outside 2 St Thomas’ Road, 1965.
Jumpers for goalposts
By: Owen Exams over and the long summer holidays stretching out in front of us after finishing secondary school. One of the places where we gathered was Parker’s Piece for ad-hoc games of football. Little did we know the importance of Cambridge in the codification of football. For us it was learning how to be […]
Arbury Adventure Playground celebrates 16 years
Arbury Adventure Playground celebrating its 16th birthday in 1989. Reproduced with kind permission from the Museum of Cambridge from a book in their collection titled “Memory Lane Cambridge” by Mike Petty and published by Cambridge Evening News 1999, ISBN 1859831842.
Good Friday skipping on Parkers Piece
Traditional Good Friday skipping on Parkers Piece from the Cambridge Daily News on 27 March 1937. Reproduced with kind permission of the Museum of Cambridge.
The first skateboard park
As skateboarding became popular, things became more serious. A fishing tackle shop on Milton Road (opposite the City football ground) converted its first floor into a skateboard shop. I will never forget the pungent smell of adhesive grip tape as I ascended the stairs. We would build homemade ramps using old doors and hardboard, which […]
Homemade skateboards
My first experiences of skateboarding took place on the path leading to the underpass beside King’s Hedges Junior School in what was then called North Arbury. The subway, along with the nearby Ship pub and North Arbury Chapel were built around 1974, the same year that my time at the King’s Hedges School came to […]
Racing on River Lane
We [my brother and I] would often play on the pavement in River Lane, running races between the house and the nearby lamp post, beside which a small concrete strip imprinted with a dog’s paw served as the finish line. Reproduced with kind permission from The Museum of Cambridge and Ian Rawlinson. To read more, […]
