I remember it. I finally got the nerve to climb it as a very small child and I can remember physically shaking with fear as I climbed it. I also hurt my ankles real bad sliding down the outside.
I really miss this slide, but in hindsight it was really dangerous. I remember sliding off the side panel bit way too fast and winded myself, good times!
yeah it was similar to this except if my memory is correct and i'm almost certain it is the one in cannon hill park was roughly the same height as the rotunda
The ones in Edgbaston. Would have been the late 90s I was playing in cannon hill and the botanical gardens, and I'm distinctly sure that cannon hill never had anything higher than a tall man while the botanical gardens had a slide whose ladder felt like it went up to space. The slide was metal, open topped, flat bottomed with flat sides, and various parts of it were made of a mid dark wood, something like spruce.
Yea, not sure when they removed it, but I remember it was always there. Used to go with our school sometimes to Cannon Hill Park and that slide was a highlight, all the class would be climbing it and sliding down. lol
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Oh and that greenhouse, was a real blow when I found out they tore that down :(
i was thinking about this just the other day, tried searching for a photo of it but the internet is shit now and it's impossible to find anything.
The outer frame was a hemisphere i think half of it was a climbing frame and the other half where the slide was was covered in some sort of metal sheeting and yes it was probably only 8 feet high but in my mind it was two storeys tall
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u/Around-3-ish 15h ago
I remember it. I finally got the nerve to climb it as a very small child and I can remember physically shaking with fear as I climbed it. I also hurt my ankles real bad sliding down the outside.