RETRO: Climbing frames are the latest 'hits' in Boston in 1963

This was the scene at Boston’s Woodville Road playing field 60 years ago this month.

“Call them climbing frames or ‘jungle gyms’, call them what you like, but they are the latest ‘hits’ with Boston’s youngsters,” wrote The Standard that month.

Boston's Woodville Road playing field 60 years ago.placeholder image
Boston's Woodville Road playing field 60 years ago.

In addition to the Woodville Road apparatus, there was another set on the Woad Farm Estate.

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