Making Arbury Adventure Playground
The building of the playground took place in 1973 and 1974. A lorry load of huge telegraph poles arrived and were driven into the ground by a pile driver so platforms could be built between them. This was a long before health and safety protocols were as officious as they are nowadays and children were allowed hammers, saws, ropes and […]
Hanging around with boys
When I was 13 we moved to a bungalow on busy Cherry Hinton Rd and played in the garden from then on. By the time (1970s) I was 15 hanging around outside the chip shop with the local boys had replaced street play. Mary, March 2023 More posts by Mary: Ally Ally Oh Playing In […]
Playing in hay bales, 1959
Mary: Well, we lived in a street – it’s called Rustat Road – and it backs on to what used to be the cattle market when I was a child. And there was a wall that you could go over. So my sister and I, we were about 10 and 7 at the time, so […]
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Roller skating at the Corn Exchange
The Corn Exchange was converted to a concert hall in 1987. Before that it had acted as a multi-functional venue for dances, wrestling matches and roller skating, as here in October 1974. The News for May 1970 reported as many as 200 young people regularly crowded into the Corn Exchange to take advantage of evening […]
Playing in the street
In 1981 George Hatton (3 Albion Row) recalled the games children used to play – tops and whips, roller skating and skipping on the slope from Kettle’s Yard to Northampton Street. He remembered the sign visible in a photograph warning drivers to drive slowly as they approached the Northampton Street Castle Street crossroads. Reproduced with […]
