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Calders Adventure Playground, Gala Day, Wester Hailes
Walsh, Kevin, 1992, Photograph
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Calders Adventure Playground, Gala Day, Wester Hailes
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19876
Title
Calders Adventure Playground, Gala Day, Wester Hailes
Description
A man juggles with three axes whilst wearing a black bag on his head as he walks over another man lying on the ground. The man on the ground lies face up and uses a cowboy hat to partially cover his face and holds a whip in his other hand. The performers are on a raised area and a crowd of children are standing and watching them. One boy in the audience has a number "205" pinned to his t-shirt.
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Walsh, Kevin
Date
1992
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17.6 x 25.5 cm
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Photograph
In 1982 there were four adventure playgrounds in Wester Hailes. In 1977 the Adventure Playground ('The Venchie') was slowly being developed by the tenants of Murrayburn. A grant was obtained in 1980 for four playworkers and a supervisor to work at Venchie. A group was formed the same year to promote Hailes Park Adventure Playground ('Quarry Venchie') by people from Hailesland, Dumbryden, Kingsknowe and Longstone. In 1980 Calders Playground was completed and in 1981 a Playground was built at Clovenstone. Wester Hailes Play Forum was formed in 1981 to manage all four adventure playgrounds and to coordinate their activities and ideas.
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