Home-Made Playground (1967)

Crawley, West Sussex. Several shots of the new town centre in Crawley. We then see various shots of children putting together an adventure playground. It looks like great fun as they come down slides in little go-carts / go-karts, climb over bits of wrecked aeroplanes and sit in the wrecked cockpit of the plane, working the controls. Some children stand around a small fire and cook sausages on bits of wire; the adult ’play leader’ puts the fire out later with a bucket of water. More playing on improvised swings and rides and climbing up trees. This playground would probably be considered highly dangerous today. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont