Adventures in Child's Play: A History of Children's Play Provision in the UK

Ray Wills writes a fascinating and often personal account in depth history of children's play provision in the UK. Much of which is based on Ray's own experiences working in the inner cities, new towns and rural communities over many decades.

He writes of a time when child's play was in its infancy, from the days when children were playing on bombed wastelands of the cities. He writes of the junk playgrounds of the post war years to the modern day supervised adventure playgrounds and play f...