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Mill Gardens were created largely as a children's playground as part of the Mill improvement scheme of 1903. That included the construction of a new weir, the bridge, boathouse and boating pool, all designed by the borough surveyor William de Normanville.
Across the river from the Jephson Gardens, over Mill Bridge, lies the small Mill Gardens (approx 4 acres) with its large expanse of grass, childrens play area and boating lake and boathouse. During the 1990’s Heritage Lottery Fund provided a £3 million grant to improve both Mill Gardens and Jephson Gardens gardens.
Oct 22, 2023 · The first known playground came into existence in 1859 in Manchester, England, nestled within the confines of Salford’s Peel Park. This park was the brainchild of Friedrich Engels, a philanthropist and mill owner who envisioned a leisure space for mill workers and their families.
Aug 15, 2013 · Originating as “sand gardens” in Germany in 1885, the beginnings of playgrounds appeared in the United States in Boston in 1886. And until the turn of the 20th century, playgrounds remained uncommon in public spaces. But as industrialization and urbanization grew, so did the concern for public welfare.
The playground had been conceived and equipped as a space for structured physical exercise, was ideally located in a garden setting to facilitate interaction with curated forms of nature and through its design and layout helped to sustain normative assumptions about class and gender-appropriate physical exercise.
Fröbel introduced the concept of the “kindergarten,” while Montessori promoted self-directed learning through hands-on activities. In 1907, the first “recreational ground” in the United States was established in San Francisco, featuring sandboxes, swings, and slides.
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Adventure playgrounds were places where children were able to do many things which they were not able to do elsewhere. They used tools to build dens out of waste materials and duckboards, lit fires, cooked, slid down aerial zip runways, created gardens, etc.
