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So realistic that it actually looks like you'd skin your hands and face if you ran into it. Excellent job.

Point taken on the tarmac, although was that an urban school, rather than a rural one? (I'm guessing it was a Catholic school given the unusual "interaction" between the swimmers.) Interrogation of elderly relatives - not all my own - suggests that tarmac playgrounds were pretty much the norm by the 1930s (it's amazing what a desk lamp and a sock full of wet sand will make a nonagenarian reveal). Who knew? (Well, you did, obviously.....)

In my school we were dragged kicking and screaming into the 1930s in about 1976, when they tarmac'd our playground...

Bastards!

RMD wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:28 pm In my school we were dragged kicking and screaming into the 1930s in about 1976, when they tarmac'd our playground...

Out of curiousity, what were they using before 1976?
I’ve always thought of tarmac as a cheap and cheerful solution and every school I can recall from the early sixties was using it. Only the posh kids got grass playing fields.

levied troop wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 3:32 pm

RMD wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:28 pm In my school we were dragged kicking and screaming into the 1930s in about 1976, when they tarmac'd our playground...

Out of curiousity, what were they using before 1976?
I’ve always thought of tarmac as a cheap and cheerful solution and every school I can recall from the early sixties was using it. Only the posh kids got grass playing fields.

It was a very eroded clay/stone surface that turned to a mudbath every time it rained. That said, I'm thinking of the fenced-in 'extended' playground that was probably established post-WW2. There was a walled-in yard in front of the old part of the school that by then was the staff car-park, but which was probably the original playground and may well have been tarmac'd or cobbled pre-war.

Purple wrote: ↑Wed Oct 03, 2018 8:30 am That brick wallpaper is genius!

It is that.

Cheers LT.

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My primary school had a playground made of pit tailings, basically all the stuff that comes up with the coal but won't burn. Since the pit closed in 1908 I'm guessing it wasn't new. It was basically dusty grey grit with bits of crushed coal which from a distance might look a bit like weathered tarmac.

This is looking bloody fantastic! Thanks for pulling this together John. Purps has also got some great projects underway as well. Its going to be a beautiful looking table

First square foot of texture for the Ayton Terrain Mats is dry!
179 to go...

Yey !!

Slightly too many hussars though