Triangle Adventure Playground
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| location = Oval, London Borough of Lambeth
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The Triangle Adventure Playground is an adventure playground that has operated on Ashmole Street in Oval, in south London since 1957. It is the oldest adventure playground in London that is still located on its original site.{{cite news |last= Grant|first= Harriet |date= July 19, 2017|title= 'Junk play': urban adventure playgrounds hit by austerity|url= https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/19/junk-play-urban-adventure-playgrounds-austerity-london|work= The Guardian|location= London, UK|access-date= 14 November 2018}}
History
The Triangle Adventure Playground was established in 1957 by Marjorie Porter (1907–2009),Further information about Marjorie Porter can be found in her autobiography, I Was Different: A Long Life in Education (2005, Propagator Press) and her papers in [https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/6b1573e3-7767-3a40-b48f-1f6b1afda324|The National Co-operative Archive]. Marjory Allen, and the London Council.{{cite web |url= https://triangleadventureplayground.com/history/|title= 66 years of play in the heart of London |publisher= Triangle Adventure Playground|access-date= 9 February 2025}} Unlike many other adventure playgrounds established following the Second World War, the Triangle Adventure Playground was never a bombsite. It was established on land set aside for the Ashmole Primary School, which had been cleared as part of a programme of "slum clearance".
The playground is staffed by playworkers.{{cite book |last= Wills|first= Raymond |date= |title= Ventures in childs play|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sglTDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Triangle%20Adventure%20Playground%22&pg=PP1|location= |publisher= Self published (lulu.com)|page= 96|isbn= 0244071640|author-link= }}
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