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A group of pictures from 1971 when Ken Luke built the 'Fort' onto the 20x8ft games wall built in 1961 (the year that "new sand was bought for the sandpit"). Identifications of any people in the images will be gratefully received and added to this page. Contact us
And can anyone identify more people and dates in the following
(the quality of some pictures is not too good)? Playing Field
Minutes history tells us that the first
swings (still there today, and about to have new 'feet') were planned in 1962
and installed in 1964. Look at the field behind the swings - simply a gentle
slope. These photos were taken many years before the Playing Field was
levelled at the time the new Hall was built (1995/1996) and also before the
'Mound', where the slide used to be, existed (Minutes history tells us
the Mound was built in 1980 with material removed from the road side during
building of a new pedestrian entrance). Who was planting the tree and which tree was it and when?
And who were all the other people?
The last one below (a postcard): on the
Field, behind the old Conservative Club - Village celebrations for the
coronation of King George VI on 12th May 1937. Thanks to Revd Doreen Frost,
born 1930 at no. 1 St Clements Terrace, who supplied this postcard and was the
'maid of honour' in the carriage' - see more
reminiscences from Doreen.
Guy Fawkes bonfires were held regularly and electric power was taken over the
fence from from Con Club. Coloured lights are shown above slung on the swings.
Former Harberton resident Alan Wills (a child of the swing era above), now
living in Australia, has sent the following names for one swing picture:
"second photo from left; left swing; sitting Keith Baldwin; standing behind
him Paul George; middle swing I think standing is John Palmer; right swing
standing is Johnathan Squires; far right I think is Ann Baldwin and the lady
is Doreen Squires. Can't believe I'm not there."
In later years, scaffolding shelters were built onto the swings to make BBQ
and refreshment stalls for Bonfire Night. Click
here for more Playing Field bonfire pictures from years between 1991 and
1998.
This is what some of the village children looked like in 1997 and 1998:
