Index

A
Abercrombie, Patrick, 63, 131
Abernethy, Drummond, 148, 195, 202
accidents, 57, 104–5, 204–6
Adams, Thomas, 111–12, 131, 134, 145, 160
adventure playgrounds, 99, 102, 123–5, 135–55, 176, 190–197, 201, 206–7, 214
adverts for play equipment, 57, 73, 97, 113, 147, 151, 195, 200–201
Agar, Madeline, 32
Allen, Marjory, 87, 110, 124, 135–55, 160–4, 176, 182–3, 191, 197
Amherst, Alicia, 48
amusement parks, 27, 59–60, 71, 74–5, 140, 228
anarchists, 164, 175, 190–191
archive and museum collections, 4, 7, 156
Ardwick Green Park, Manchester, 126
arrests, 90, 92–3, 193

B
Balfron estate, London, 160
Bartholomew Square, London, 37
Barton Seagrave, 61–5
Basildon, Essex, 158, 178
Battersea Park, London, 34, 58, 197
Bayliss Jones and Bayliss Ltd, 22, 54–9
BBC, 87
Belgian Congo, 73
Bengtsson, Arvid, 154, 161, 196, 201
Benjamin, Joe, 148, 196, 206
Birley Street Playground, Blackburn, 197
Birmingham, 37, 54, 86, 102, 133, 161–2, 208
Birmingham Playing Fields Association, 86
Blackpool, 60, 71, 103
Blomfield, Robert, 207–8
Boy Scouts, 140
Brabazon, Reginald, 28–39, 49, 128
Bridgeman, John, 162
British Safety Council, 206
Brown, Michael, 162–4
Brunel Estate, Paddington, London, 162–3
Burbury Street Recreation Ground, Birmingham, 37
Bureau of Educational Experiments, New York, 141
bylaws and regulations, 20, 27, 37, 49, 68–9, 72, 88

C
Campbell, Janet, 51
Canada, 73, 111
caretakers, 36, 97
Carnegie UK Trust, 51, 96
Caryl Gardens, Liverpool, 129–30, 133
catalogues, 52–60
Central Park, Dagenham, 146
Central Park, New York, 35, 156
Charlestown Playground, Boston, 35
Charles Wicksteed & Co., 10, 60–75
Charlton Kings Playground, Gloucester, 104
children’s gymnasium, 27, 34–5, 37, 73, 112, 214, 231
Children’s Happy Evening Association, 26, 35
Children’s Play Council, 212
Children’s Playspace. See Circular 79/72
Chubb, Lawrence, 86
Churchill Gardens, London, 157–8
Circular 79/72, 186–9, 206, 209
citizenship, 36, 61, 73, 86
Clias, Peter, 24, 31
Clissold Park, London, 106
Coleman, Alice, 210
Colvin, Brenda, 136, 161
commercialisation of leisure, 52, 60–1
Coote, B.T., 100, 110
Copenhagen, 138–9, 147, 154
Cornwall, 86
Coronation Planting Committee, 110–12, 137
corruption, 25, 211
County of London Plan 1943, 131–2
court cases, 51, 57, 93, 104–5, 203
cowboys and Indians, 140
Crawley, Sussex, 133, 143
cricket, 62, 87, 91, 151,
Curtis, Henry, 35, 48

D
degeneration, 28, 30, 49, 84, 89, 125
Denby, Elizabeth, 129, 131, 136, 182
Dickens, Charles, 17–19, 27
dog roundworm, 203
Dragehjelm, Hans, 139–40
Dublin, 6, 37

E
Earl of Meath. See Brabazon, Reginald
Eastchurch, Kent, 87
Edinburgh, 37, 104, 207–8, 231
education, 5, 17, 98–9, 127, 135, 141, 177
Education Acts, 25, 127
Emdrup, 138–40
exhibitions, 3, 59, 63, 132, 148–51, 154, 180

F
fairground. See amusement park
Fair Play for Children, 205
fencing, 33, 52–8, 113, 126, 129–30, 133, 140, 176, 207–9
Festival of Britain, 132
Finsbury Park, 23, 34, 37
First World War, 50, 61, 73–4, 83, 89
fleas, 109
flying steps. See giant stride
Forshaw, J.H., 131
Freshwater Place, London, 26, 32, 38
Freud, Anna, 99, 142
Froebel, Friedrich, 17, 99, 107, 139
Fry, Maxwell, 129, 131

G
games wardens, 142
garden cities, 63–5, 67, 111, 128, 230
Geddes, Patrick, 141
gender, 6, 20–21, 33, 50, 56, 68, 88–9, 134, 142, 196
segregation of play spaces by, 34, 58–9, 68–9
George, Henry, 63
Germany, 31, 154, 156
giant stride, 21, 34, 48, 58, 97, 104, 204
Gibberd, Frederick, 204
Gloucester Green Playground, Regent’s Park, 198
Goldfinger, Erno, 160
Gotch, John, 62–3
Great Yarmouth, 60, 71
Guilds of Play, 26

H
Hall, G. Stanley, 67, 101, 139
Harlow, Essex, 133, 150, 178
Harrison Park, Edinburgh, 207–8
Hart, Ernest, 28–9
Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, 206–7
Heaton Park, Manchester, 36
Hedges, Nick, 180
Highway Act 1835, 16
Hill, Octavia, 26, 128
Hole, Vere, 183–4,
Holmes, Isabella, 37–8
home range, 182
Horniman Park, London, 49
hospitals, 178, 204
housing manuals, 133–4, 187
Howard, Ebenezer, 63–4
Hyde Park, London, 53, 103

I
indecent offences. See sexual assault
India, 73, 154
injuries. See accidents
Institute of Landscape Architects, 111–12, 136, 146, 160
Institute of Park Administration, 102, 110, 126, 147–8, 195
Institute of Playleadership, 148, 195
insurance, 105
Isaacs, Susan, 98–100

J
Jacobs, Jane, 164, 181, 189
jazz swing, 72
Jephcott, Pearl, 185, 193
joy wheel, 2, 71–4
junk playgrounds, 138–44, 147
Juvenile Organisations Committees, 50

K
Kellmer Pringle, Mia, 186, 188
Kenealy, Annesley, 48, 108
Kensington Gardens, London, 48, 49, 53, 109
King Alfred’s School, 67, 99
Kyrle Society, 26, 28, 32, 37

L
Lady Allen of Hurtwood. See Allen, Marjory
Land Nationalisation Society, 63
Lansbury estate, London, 132, 148, 182
Lansbury, George, 103–4, 108, 132
LCC architect department, 157, 182, 204
Ledermann, Alfred, 154
Lee, Joseph, 107
Ling, Pehr Henrik, 31
littering, 73
Little Dorrit’s Playground, 33–4
Llanbradach, Glamorgan, 100
London Adventure Playground Association, 195
London Children’s Garden Fund, 110
London Fields, Hackney, 106
London Playing Fields Committee, 84, 115n4
London Safety First Council, 94, 105
Lord Chaworth. See Brabazon, Reginald
Lorraine estate, London, 193
Lynch, Kevin, 182

M
Mackenzie, Leslie, 51
Madge, Charles, 158, 160
Maizels, Joan, 183–4
Major, Joshua, 22–3
Malting House School, 99
Manchester and Salford Playing Fields Society, 49, 84–5, 100
Masterman, Charles, 49, 51, 73
Mayhew, Henry, 18, 24
McLeod Street Playground, Edinburgh, 104
McMillan, Margaret, 98–9, 135, 141
Meath Gardens, London, 37, 58
Melland, William, 85, 100–101
Metropolitan Public Gardens Association, 27–39, 49, 89, 110
Milton Keynes, 178
Miners’ Welfare Fund, 100, 105, 131
Ministry of Defence, 213
Mitchell, Lucy Sprague, 141
Mitchell, Mary, 161, 186, 197, 230
museums. See archive and museum collections
Myatt’s Fields, London, 34, 37

N
National Children’s Bureau, 186
National Conference on the Leisure of the People 1919, 51
National Playing Fields Association, 83–114
native Americans, 140
Neill, A.S., 99, 177
New Zealand, 73
Newington Recreation Ground, London, 33, 97
Newtongrange Park, Midlothian, 100
Nicholson, Simon, 191–2
Norfolk Square Playground, London, 34
North Borneo, 73
Nottingham, 49, 150, 185, 202
Notting Hill, London, 193–4

O
ocean wave, 2, 71, 97, 105, 205
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 35
open air schools, 8, 47, 49, 127
Opie, Iona and Peter, 189–90

P
Paddington Recreation Ground, London, 126
paid for playgrounds. See amusement park
Paneth, Marie, 142
Park Hill estate, Sheffield, 160
Parker Morris inquiry, 152, 178
Paton Watson, J., 131
Peel Park, Salford, 21, 22
Pepler, George, 128, 131–3, 144
petitions, 50, 192–3
Pettigrew, W.W., 83, 97, 109
Philips Park, Manchester, 21, 22, 32
Physical Training and Recreation Act 1937, 90
Playground and Recreation Society, 18–19
playground epistemology, 4
playground standards, 128, 131, 152, 178, 186–8, 197, 210
play leadership, 100–114, 138, 141–2, 148, 194–7, 206, 212–14
play parks scheme, London, 197–8
play streets, 94–5
play work. See play leadership
Plymouth, 131
police, 50, 57, 92–5, 106, 149,
Powell and Moya, 157–8
Powis Square, London, 194
Primrose Hill gymnasium, London, 23–5, 50
protest, 192–3
Prussia Street Recreation Group, Manchester, 37
public parks, 15, 19–25, 30, 36, 60, 68, 84, 96, 104, 112, 185, 207–8

Q
Quarry Hill, Leeds, 129, 133, 209
Queen’s Park, Manchester, 21

R
Rawtenstall Recreation Ground, Lancashire, 105
Reaney, Mabel Jane, 92, 100–101, 141, 230
Recreation Grounds Act 1859, 23
Regent’s Park, London, 23, 54, 63, 198
regulations. See bylaws and regulations
Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 27
road safety, 90–5, 133, 158
Roth, Mathias, 31
roundabout, 27, 59, 71, 200, 205, 212
Rowntree, Joseph, 61
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, 105, 150, 212
rubber safety surfaces, 203–4, 210–11
rural playgrounds, 86–8, 112, 141

S
sandpit, 37, 48, 50, 71, 88, 97–9, 106–9, 126, 144–5, 183–4
Save the Children Fund, 125, 142–3
schools. See education
Second World War, 93, 114, 125, 176
seesaw, 17, 48, 53, 57, 60, 65, 97, 105–7, 156, 186
Select Committee on Public Walks 1833, 19
Seligman, Hubert, 53, 60–1
Sexby, J.J., 107
sexual assault, 58, 106, 202–3
Shore, Peter, 206
slide, 48, 65, 113, 129, 156, 161–3, 186, 197
defective, 205
injuries, 105, 204
safety features, 57, 105
soft play centres, 211
Sørensen, Carl Theodore, 139–41
South Africa, 30, 73–4, 231
Spa Fields, London, 33, 37–8, 58, 131
Spencer, Heath and George Ltd, 53–5, 105, 110, 150
spine injuries, 57
St Chads Park, Dagenham, 146
St Helena, 73
St James’s Park, London, 48, 53, 109
St Paul’s Churchyard and Playground, London, 37
standardisation, 73, 88, 114, 162
Stevenage, Hertfordshire, 158, 161, 185, 202
street play, 16, 19, 90–5, 124
Street Playgrounds Act 1938, 95
suburban gardens, 129
Sudell, Richard, 136, 146, 150, 161
Summerhill, 99, 177
Sweden, 31, 100, 145, 154, 200
swing, 22, 26–7, 33, 48, 58–9, 65–7, 97, 130, 147, 156, 212
broken, 180, 207
film, 149
guidance, 186
injuries, 204–5
new seat design, 200
pay to use, 27
rope, 161
wartime removal, 126

T
television, 184
Thatcher, Margaret, 183, 209
theory of loose parts, 191–2
Thomson, Mathew, 9, 176, 190–191, 202
total environment, 163–4
Tottenham, London, 93
toxocara canis, 203
traffic playground, 93, 150

U
United Nations, 3, 152, 154
United States of America (USA), 6, 32–5, 48, 73, 94, 101, 140–141, 181, 196, 203
Unwin, Raymond, 141

V
van Eyck, Aldo, 160
vaulting horse, 21, 31, 58
Victoria Park, London, 20, 27, 29, 34, 38, 58, 59, 97, 107–8
Victoria Park, Portsmouth, 23
village green, 38, 86–7
Voelker, Karl, 23, 31
voluntary action, 53, 60–65, 86, 152, 207

W
Ward, Colin, 164, 190–191
Ward, Mary, 26, 35
wartime evacuation, 114, 125–6
water chute, 71
welfare, 127, 136, 156, 164, 213
Wicksteed, Charles, 60–75, 124, 228
Wicksteed, Joseph Hartley, 64, 67, 99
Wicksteed, Philip Henry, 67, 98
Wicksteed Village Trust, 62–5, 70
Wilderspin, Samuel, 17
Wilkinson, Fanny, 31–2, 230
Williams-Ellis, Clough, 156
Willis, Margaret, 182–3, 230
Wodehouse, P.G., 59
women’s football, 69, 88
Wood, Walter, 35–6, 68

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