All but forgotten (though still legally in existence in many places) - and a legacy in the active and successful #playingout movement that seeks to restore children’s freedom to play out in the streets and spaces where they live https://playingout.net/
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@playingout.bsky.social
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Brian Groom
Cleminson Street, Salford. Salford pioneered play streets, traffic-free from 8am till sunset (borrowed from New York) in the 1930s. Legislation followed: there were 700 in England and Wales in the 1950s, all but forgotten by the 1980s.
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