List of figures

Figure 1.1  Gymnasia and playground of the Home and Colonial Infant School, London, wood engraving, c.1840, Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark.

Figure 1.2  Giant’s stride, Bayliss Jones and Bayliss Ltd, 1912, National Archives, WORKS/16/1705.

Figure 1.3  Little Dorrit’s playground by H. Seppings Wright in the Illustrated London News, 8 February 1902, p. 208, © Illustrated London News Ltd / Mary Evans.

Figure 2.1  Regulation playground outfits, Spencer, Heath and George Ltd, no date, National Archives, WORKS/16/1705.

Figure 2.2  Gymnasia for parks, Bayliss Jones and Bayliss Ltd, 1912, National Archives, WORKS/16/1705.

Figure 2.3  Wooden slides, c.1920, Wicksteed Park Archive, PHO-1614-4.

Figure 2.4  Large swings, c.1920, Wicksteed Park Archive, PHO-1614-5.

Figure 3.1  Children’s traffic playground, Tottenham, 1938, © Daily Herald Archive / Science Museum Group.

Figure 3.2  Children playing in sandpits, Victoria Park, London, 1893, © London Metropolitan Archives (City of London), SC/PHL/02/1141/B2895.

Figure 4.1  Children’s playground, Caryl Garden Flats, Liverpool, by J.E. Marsh, 1940, RIBA Collections, RIBA14445.

Figure 4.2  Sketch Suggestions of Improvised Equipment for Children’s Play by R.B. Gooch, National Playing Fields Association, 1956, London Metropolitan Archives, CLC/011/MS22287.

Figure 4.3  Children’s playground, Churchill Gardens estate by J. Maltby, 1963, John Maltby / RIBA Collections, RIBA34960.

Figure 4.4  Experimental play equipment by LCC Architects Department, 1959, © London Metropolitan Archives (City of London), GLC/HG/HHM/12/S026A.

Figure 4.5  Brick slide on the Brunel estate, London, c.1974, Landscape Institute / Michael Brown, Museum of English Rural Life, AR BRO PH5/1/524B.

Figure 5.1  Open space with children’s play area, Basildon, by S. Lambert, 1967, Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections, RIBA63840.

Figure 5.2  Swinging in a derelict playground, Newcastle, by Nick Hedges, 1971, © nickhedgesphotography.co.uk.

Figure 5.3  Harrison Park, Edinburgh, by Robert Blomfield, 1960, © Robert Blomfield Photography.