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18-560: Eccleshill Adventure Playground (organisation renamed PlayBradford in 2020), locally known as The Big Swing , is an Adventure playground that has operated in Eccleshill Park, Bradford, West Yorkshire since 2006. It is located beside the Ravenscliffe estate and provides open access adventure play for children and young people from five to sixteen years old. Most sessions however are for ages five to thirteen years old. The playground

36-562: A conscientious objector in World War I . Marjory Allen worked as a landscape architect throughout the 1920s and 1930s and was elected the first fellow of the Institute of Landscape Architects in 1930. Clifford Allen, who had been created 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood in 1932, died in 1939, and Lady Allen threw herself into her work, also becoming interested in the welfare of children. Her campaigning for children in institutional care led to

54-482: A West Yorkshire building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Adventure playground Harry Shier, in Adventure Playgrounds: An Introduction (1984), defines an adventure playground this way: An Adventure Playground is an area fenced off and set aside for children. Within its boundaries children can play freely, in their own way, in their own time. But what

72-938: A blitz-era play centre in London although not specifically incorporating the elements of a Junk/Adventure playground pointing to her role in the history of UK specific Playwork development." To date, there are approximately 1,000 adventure playgrounds in Europe, most of them in England, Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands and Switzerland. Japan also has a significant number of adventure playgrounds. Australian Capital Territory : New South Wales : Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Riverbend Park. Launceston, Tasmania. Victoria Western Australia Denmark has several adventure playgrounds, now known as Byggelegeplads (Building-playground) and formerly as Skrammellegeplads (Junk-playground). From

90-620: A reality". His aim was to provide children living in cities the same opportunities for play that were enjoyed by children living in rural areas. The first adventure playground was set up by a Workers Cooperative Housing Association in Emdrup , Denmark, during the German occupation of the 1940s . The playground at Emdrup grew out of the spirit of resistance to Nazi occupation and parents' fears that "their children's play might be mistaken for acts of sabotage by soldiers". Play advocates sometimes emphasize

108-487: A series of illustrated books on the subject of playgrounds , and at least one book on adventure playgrounds , spaces for free creativity by children, which helped the idea spread worldwide. In May 2024, a blue plaque was unveiled in Marjory Allen's honour, on the site of her home between 1958 and 1966 at 22 Lawrence Street, Chelsea , London. This article about a United Kingdom architect or firm of architects

126-613: Is a calque from the Danish term skrammellegeplads . Early examples of adventure playgrounds in the UK were known as "junk playgrounds", "waste material playgrounds", or "bomb-site adventure playgrounds". The term "adventure playground" was first adopted in the United Kingdom to describe waste material playgrounds "in an effort to make the ‘junk’ playground concept more palatable to local authorities". The architect Simon Nicholson numbered among

144-512: Is often credited with the introduction into the UK of "the idea of transforming bomb sites into 'junk playgrounds', but historians of the Adventure playground movement have pointed to the role played by other experiments carried out by youth workers in the UK. For example, "Marie Paneth, an art therapist heavily influenced by Freud, independently developed the concept of permissive play as a tool for ameliorating childhood aggression in her work running

162-523: Is special about an Adventure Playground is that here (and increasingly in contemporary urban society, only here) children can build and shape the environment according to their own creative vision. The first planned playground of this type, the Emdrup Junk Playground , opened in Emdrup , Denmark, in 1943. In 1948, an adventure playground opened in Camberwell , England. The term "junk playground"

180-494: Is staffed by playworkers and runs a mobile play programme in deprived areas and a playworker apprentice programme. Much like a school would, the charity needs to know emergency contact details for children that attend, whether this is for a one-off or regular attendance so as to be able to contact a responsible adult who lives with the child after the child has attended (e.g. to follow up after an incident that took place, or for track and trace purposes). The Big Swing, which gives

198-659: The Second World War, Lady Allen, with the support of the Home Secretary, Herbert Morrison, with whom she was friends, established a scheme whereby waste material from the bomb sites were turned into children's toys. After World War II she served as a liaison officer with UNICEF in Europe and the Middle East . She campaigned for facilities for children growing up in the new high-rise developments in Britain's cities and wrote

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216-414: The advantages of the adventure playground, "the relationship between experiment and play, community involvement, the catalytic value of play leaders, and indeed the whole concept of a free society in miniature.'" Essential in this for Nicholson was the concept of 'loose parts': "In any environment, both the degree of inventiveness and creativity, and the possibility of discovery, are directly proportional to

234-513: The first site in Emdrup, the idea spread across the country and at the height of the popularity in the 1960s, there were about 100 adventure playgrounds in the country. Present active adventure playgrounds in Denmark includes: Marjory Allen, Lady Allen of Hurtwood Marjory Allen, Baroness Allen of Hurtwood , JP (née Gill ; 10 May 1897 – 11 April 1976), known to her friends as Joan ,

252-592: The importance of adventure playgrounds for children of color in the United States, where policing "can feel like a kind of occupation". Marjory Allen , an English landscape architect and child welfare advocate, visited and subsequently wrote a widely-read article about the Emdrup Adventure playground titled Why Not Use Our Bomb Sites Like This? and published in the Picture Post in 1946. Marjory Allen's article

270-467: The number and kind of variables in it." In a playground context loose parts would include: The first junk playgrounds were based on the ideas of Carl Theodor Sørensen , a Danish landscape architect, who noticed that children preferred to play everywhere but in the playgrounds that he designed. In 1931, inspired by the sight of children playing in a construction site, he imagined "A junk playground in which children could create and shape, dream and imagine

288-718: The passing of the Children Act 1948 . She was chairman (1942–1948) and president (1948–1951) of the Nursery School Association of Great Britain , founder president of the World Organisation for Early Childhood Education , a member of the Central Advisory Council for Education (1945–1949), and chairman of the Advisory Council on Children's Entertainment Films (1944–1950). During

306-424: The playground its name, is the biggest of its kind in the north of England. An Adventure playground , The Big Swing has den and structure building, a cooking camp with fire, a 50 ft zip-wire, tools and loose parts, a jumping tower and slide, a playhouse, and two sunken trampolines. 53°49′30″N 1°42′35″W  /  53.8249°N 1.7098°W  / 53.8249; -1.7098 This article about

324-588: Was an English landscape architect and promoter of child welfare . Marjory Gill was born in Bexleyheath , Kent . Her brother was Colin Gill and her cousin was Eric Gill . She was educated at Bedales School and University College, Reading , where she took a diploma course in horticulture . In 1921 she married Clifford Allen , a leading member of the Independent Labour Party who had been imprisoned as

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