Pudsey Park
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Hi FarnleyBloke, Are they restoring it to put back in the park (Pudsey or Farnley?) or to working order? I'd have thought it was too far gone! Did it still have the roof/canopy in the eighties? I remember the funnel was always stuffed with Seabrook crisp bags, and you could climb through the firebox.CheersSi
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Yeah, I used to play on that when I was a kid - remember climbing through the firebox and messing with the controls. Happy days those, why was it taken to Farnley Park - I used to play cricket on there, and don't recall a steam engine workshop!! There were some huts round the back of Farnley Hall I seem to remember, would it be fixed there?
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I also remember there was a "clown's hat" in Pudsey Park. There were two big slides, too. One had a red wooden "hut" at the top, and the other had a "bump" halfway down. Rumour had it that this one was widened when the bump threw someone off to their death. The swinging beams would also give a modern-day Health & Safety officer nightmares!!!
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Si wrote: I also remember there was a "clown's hat" in Pudsey Park. There were two big slides, too. One had a red wooden "hut" at the top, and the other had a "bump" halfway down. Rumour had it that this one was widened when the bump threw someone off to their death. The swinging beams would also give a modern-day Health & Safety officer nightmares!!! Was the clowns hat what we used to call 'the umbrella'? Big pointy thing that everyone sat around and crashed towards the middle. I remember it being lifted off a few times when older kids were on it. I wonder if there were any broken legs caused by it. Speaking of Pudsey Park,,, has anyone been there recently? It seems to have all been stolen