Nice, I lived in a small village in my teens (late 90s) and we had to make our own park out of pallets, scrap wood and a couple of mattresses. Health and safety nightmare but it did the job.
Well at least you had one growing up. We weren’t allowed to skate anywhere, everyone kicked us out. In the end my friend made a petition to the council and got one built, but we were too old by then
That’s fucking epic man.
We had a skatepark that was shut down by some old bat complaining about it which sucked but they didn’t actually take it away for a year so we snuck through a hole in the fence and had our own park. Dream.
I love that more and more councils seem to have realised that having a place where kids can hang out and exercise without realising it is a good thing.
Also, skate parks are largely bombproof and require very little maintenance, and part of the charm is that they get vandalised but it doesn’t matter.
I was good friends with a load of skaters at school and they were all great, kind, people who got a really bad rap for wanting to ride skateboards, never understood the hate towards them from the public. Glad to see more and more of these springing up everywhere.
I do hope the builders test it out when it’s done in hi-viz and hard hats, while some bod from the council H&S team holding a clipboard scores them.
My dude is that Havant Park? Nice
Every skate park I have known since I was a kid was ok for other kids to use in the day but ultimately controlled by drug dealers and gangs. Often get local facebook group posts about them stealing little kids bikes and skateboards, etc.
Never too old to pick it back up again!
Where I grew up in West London once had the worlds largest skatepark. It was incredible. inside an old Victorian wrought iron marketplace.
The whole thing was poured concrete. It must have cost a fortune. It lasted one year, then they pulled it down an built a crappy generic leisure centre on it.
[https://rollingthundersupply.com/rolling-thunder-skatepark/](https://rollingthundersupply.com/rolling-thunder-skatepark/)
My village (95-99) had a single midiramp; i’d have loved what you had!
Anyone know which council this is built by? My council have planning permission application to build one in a big park, but they are on the boarderline to approve it. I like to show this example.
Looks nice I try to remember where the old skatepark used to be where I lived.
We used to skate in abandoned warehouses. It has its own charm lol scavenging ramps and a huge private space
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Nice, I lived in a small village in my teens (late 90s) and we had to make our own park out of pallets, scrap wood and a couple of mattresses. Health and safety nightmare but it did the job.
Well at least you had one growing up. We weren’t allowed to skate anywhere, everyone kicked us out. In the end my friend made a petition to the council and got one built, but we were too old by then
That’s fucking epic man.
We had a skatepark that was shut down by some old bat complaining about it which sucked but they didn’t actually take it away for a year so we snuck through a hole in the fence and had our own park. Dream.
I love that more and more councils seem to have realised that having a place where kids can hang out and exercise without realising it is a good thing.
Also, skate parks are largely bombproof and require very little maintenance, and part of the charm is that they get vandalised but it doesn’t matter.
I was good friends with a load of skaters at school and they were all great, kind, people who got a really bad rap for wanting to ride skateboards, never understood the hate towards them from the public. Glad to see more and more of these springing up everywhere.
I do hope the builders test it out when it’s done in hi-viz and hard hats, while some bod from the council H&S team holding a clipboard scores them.
My dude is that Havant Park? Nice
Every skate park I have known since I was a kid was ok for other kids to use in the day but ultimately controlled by drug dealers and gangs. Often get local facebook group posts about them stealing little kids bikes and skateboards, etc.
Never too old to pick it back up again!
Where I grew up in West London once had the worlds largest skatepark. It was incredible. inside an old Victorian wrought iron marketplace.
The whole thing was poured concrete. It must have cost a fortune. It lasted one year, then they pulled it down an built a crappy generic leisure centre on it.
[https://rollingthundersupply.com/rolling-thunder-skatepark/](https://rollingthundersupply.com/rolling-thunder-skatepark/)
My village (95-99) had a single midiramp; i’d have loved what you had!
Anyone know which council this is built by? My council have planning permission application to build one in a big park, but they are on the boarderline to approve it. I like to show this example.
Looks nice I try to remember where the old skatepark used to be where I lived.
We used to skate in abandoned warehouses. It has its own charm lol scavenging ramps and a huge private space