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Trentham Memorial Park adventure playground project; 1973
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DescriptionPrinted in the November 28, 1973 'Leader'.
This project was run by a Round Table/Jaycees/Lions/Rotary committee. Some work had been done by Wi Tako prisoners. It was under construction at the time of the article being printed in the Leader. The adventure playground was located at the first set of Brentwood Street gates, next to the football grounds and near the show ring.
There would be two stockades; a mound with crawling tunnels; a stacked and bolted pile of logs as a safer alternative to a jungle gym; a 160-foo winding road with stepping logs and a bridge; a slide on a mound, so that falls would be short; piled rocks for climbing; and rope climbs, seesaws and non-steel swings were still to be finished.
The point of this type of playground was to encourage imaginative play. It was constructed with trees and rocks and blended harmoniously into the environment it allowed plenty of room for make believe games.
Date TakenNovember 1973
This project was run by a Round Table/Jaycees/Lions/Rotary committee. Some work had been done by Wi Tako prisoners. It was under construction at the time of the article being printed in the Leader. The adventure playground was located at the first set of Brentwood Street gates, next to the football grounds and near the show ring.
There would be two stockades; a mound with crawling tunnels; a stacked and bolted pile of logs as a safer alternative to a jungle gym; a 160-foo winding road with stepping logs and a bridge; a slide on a mound, so that falls would be short; piled rocks for climbing; and rope climbs, seesaws and non-steel swings were still to be finished.
The point of this type of playground was to encourage imaginative play. It was constructed with trees and rocks and blended harmoniously into the environment it allowed plenty of room for make believe games.
Date TakenNovember 1973Depicts or relates to
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Reference1973 11 28 2FormatScanned from bound newspaperSize106 x 88 mm
FormatScanned from bound newspaperSize106 x 88 mmScanned byDon McLeod
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Trentham Memorial Park adventure playground project; 1973. Upper Hutt Libraries, accessed 20/08/2026, https://uhcl.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/27288