Play Spaces - current and former
A message from Nick about children's play area prompted this list. My children have long since grown out of such places so I cannot add any personal input, if you want to give them a 'parent rating', or add others that I have missed, then please do so via the message pad.
School Field
School Field is situated in School Lane between the Infant School and the railway. There is an entrance with some parking at the school end, and a pedestrian entrance near the arch under the railway. Facilities include play equipment and a pond.
Connaught Park
There is an area of play equipment adjacent to what used to be the Connaught Community Centre (now sold off by the County Council for commercial use) at the end of Whitmoor Road. Also accessible by a footpath by the side of Connaught Junior School.
BPFA Playing Fields
There used to be play equipment at the edge of the Playing Fields at the end of College Ride. I do not know if it is still there. Parking available.
Freemantle Road
There is some basic play equipment in a fenced off area at the most northerly part of Freemantle Road. No off-road parking.
The Copse
Frank Papworth writes: 650.0306
My swimming pool contribution got me thinking. I thought I'd search for a few things from my childhood memories (50's/60's). The first one was "the copse", but I found no mention of it.
The Copse was bounded on the one side by the Junior school (until the 60's when the senior school was built this was the junior and senior school), the railway and the Cedars estate. Dim recollections suggest it was probably a part of the Cedars that could not be developed for housing due to the swamp. Anyway this was off limits to kids as there was a locked gate at the end of the dirve that ran up from Cedar Close. Of course this made it all the more attractive and we would hop over the gate. There were other ways in, walk along the railway embankment, through a gap at the bottom of the school field.
It was a kids adventure playground. There was pond/swamp that had an island and in better days may have been an attractive part of the Cedars gardens. Now it was overgrown. Kids had made stepping stones across to the island that were quite an adventure to cross, at least for a six year old. There were some hills and trees where we could play cowboys and indians, hide and seek etc. No computers in those days.
I guess 'progress' eventaully caught up with the copse and it was turned over to housing. A great loss, but Bagshot was full of places to go.
From Frank's description of the location, I think the area did indeed become housing as St Mary's Gardens.
Robert Allen has written to say that he, too, enjoyed playing in the copse. 604.0406
And James Legge writes : We too played at the copse in the early sixties and can remember an old car sitting in the water for years it was a great place to get newts and tadpoles and the locked gate was exciting too. 7083/1207
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