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NORTH
FREE Shakespeare Walk Adventure Playground,Stoke Newington
Kids rule the roost at this N16
venue,and they’ve just helped
design the new play features here.
Adventure playgrounds started in
the Danish city of Emdrup during
WWII,when landscape architect
Carl Theodor Sørensen was
inspired by children playing on
bomb sites to create a junkyard-
type area equipped with wood,
bricks,tyres and old furniture.
The UK followed suit in 1948 on
the site of a bombed Camberwell
church. These spaces are staffed
by play workers,which makes
them more expensive to run
than conventional playgrounds,
and they are on the decline in
London. Shakespeare Walk
bucks the trend and provides
youngsters aged five to 15 with
props that they can use to create
their own world by building dens,
gardening,digging,scaling huge
wooden structures or dangling on
Tarzan-like rope swings,and even
cooking over open fires.
69 ShakespeareWalk,N16
8TB.www.swapa.org.uk.Stoke
Newington rail then 73 bus.Open
term timeTue-Fri 4pm-7pm; Sat
11am-6pm.School holidays Mon-
Fri 11am-6pm.
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London Recumbents,Dulwich Park
Tear the little ’uns away from
Mario Kart and let them race
under their own steam with these
fun hire bikes. Adults can rest
easy that it’s more a gentle course
through pretty parkland than
speedy screeching around hairpin
bends. Kids can go it alone on the
reclining banana bike,or try team
pedalling on a tandem or side-by-
side cycle. And it’s a case of two wheels good,three wheels better with
the Dutch child-carrier trike that allows families to pile in together. The
company also operates in Battersea Park.
Ranger’sYard,Dulwich Park,College Rd,SE21 7BQ.
www.londonrecumbents.com.North Dulwich rail.Daily 10am-5pm
(or dusk).Last hire 4pm.£8-£20 for one hour.
EAST
FREE Tumbling Bay Playground,
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
In London’s newest park,there
are acres of beautiful green space
where kids can run free,as well
as massive treehouses linked
by rope bridges that might have
parents feeling wobbly with worry
but will be irresistible to their
daredevil sprogs. Rock pools,play
fountains,stepping stones,sand
areas and a climbing wall add up
to an energetic experience that’s
pretty sure to exhaust kids in the
best possible way.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park,
southern side,E20 2ST.www.
queenelizabetholympicpark.co.uk.
Stratford.Daily 24 hours.
Playday is on Wednesday August 6. See www.playday.org.uk to find local events.
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