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CRUMBLES CASTLE ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND

My careware is targeted at children from the ages of 6 to 12. It aims to better help children undertstand their built environment in a non formal way. By this meaning that these lessons on the built environment would be introduced through play. Children would be given the freedom to design their own play space with elements they found on the site. For instance, branches, leaves, cardboards, old bottles, etc. The children would be surpervised not to guide play but to solely allow it to happen safely.

I chose the location of my careware to be Castles Crumble Adventure Playground as this allows me to reach the target audience and allows the full aims of the careware to be fulfilled.

The Crumbles Castle Adventure Playground was erected in Bingfield Park on the west side of the Cally and is facing Pembroke street.

The Crumbles’ was the name given to the local Beaconsfield Buildings which were regarded as the worst slums in Islington and demolished in 1971. Soon after, the Bemerton Adventure Playground Committee asked architecture students from Regent Street Polytechnic to design what we know today as Crumbles Castle.

Cobbles from the old buried courtyards of Crumbles’ tenements and the market site on York Way can be found in the tower and walls of the castle.

Local children and their parents helped build the castle between 1968 and 1971; it was recognised that ‘building’ was an extension of the children’s play throughout that time.

Crumbles Castle Adventure Playground has welcomed generations of Islington’s children to play.

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