Playground Sheds, Glencorse Primary School, Penicuik, Midlothian
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Playground Sheds, Glencorse Primary School, Penicuik, Midlothian
Image: © Richard West Taken: 4 Sep 2010
Seeing these playground sheds reminded me of my primary school days in urban Lanarkshire. Our sheds straddled the boundary between the boys playground and the girls playground. [The playgrounds were strictly segregated in those days so the boys could run around fighting without disturbing the girls who would be skipping with very long ropes and elastics]. The two separate sheds were, in effect, built back to back with first floor accommodation above and built of dark, grim, sandstone with iron columns and steel beams. They provided a welcome shelter from the perpetual winter rain and sleet and were primarily used for British Bulldogs and similar games that always consisted of running about wildly and knocking people over. Of course this was back in the olden days before they had invented electricity and mobile phones........
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Image Location
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55.84694
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