Southern Town Park is at the southern edge of Abingdon on a former landfill site beyond the houses. At 9:30am this morning cars were arriving with dads and mums bringing their children to rugby practice at Abingdon RUFC. The car park was getting full, and cars were starting to park in the road.
The play park beyond the Sunny Vale of White Horse District sign was deserted at that hour so I took a few pictures.
There was little more than a couple of broken swings and a makeshift seesaw when we first visited with our children 25 years ago. It felt like a derelict out of season place.
Now there is a colourful fenced off area with little spring rockers, climbing apparatus, swings, and slides.
There is also a more rugged looking adventure play area with a zip chord, big swing, a series of pieces of equipment to climb across in sequence,
and a sand pit with large rocks, tree trunks and several springy circular boards.
There is also a basketball court. The backboards were painted by a brought in grafitti artist, with help from young children, about ten years ago, That original graffitti art has faded and been added to by the more usual graffitti of the area …
‘OX14’ and ‘SAKY’.
