NEWTOWN PLAY AREA
CL6SED AS FROM TODAY
It was decided at the monthly meeting of the Boys' Institute Management Committeg, presided over by Mr. L. T. Watkins, 'to close the children's play area, Kiddiford Street, as from today.
It' had been hoped that the Boys' Institute Management Committee's offer of the play area apparatus to the City Council would have been. accepted, and the playground saved for' the children, but the offer' having been declined, the institute authorities have found it necessary to close the ground, and intend offering the apparatus for sale. ■
My. George A. Troup and Mr. L. T. Watkins were at the head of the movement to provide a suitable pla3'groun<J for children living in congested areas. The ground in front of the Public Hospital was considered as offering an excellent site, and a lease of the ground was du\r arranged with the Hospital Board. In' July, 1922. a. campaign was launched to raise fuuds to equip the area, and it met with sueh_ a sympathetic response from the public that the work was put in hand almost immediately, and apparatus to the value of £1000 installed. In November of the same year the ground was opened aiid the-children's interest in the play area has never waned, the average weekly attendance beinsr COO. < ■'
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 24
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216NEWTOWN PLAY AREA Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 24
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