Nah we watched it happening. The fort came out because it was probably rotting and then the rest of the play equipment on that side of the school came out so they could build computer labs and the D&T workshop in that area. The play areas ended up being a lot tinier, nothing as cool as that old fort.

When we first moved to the area we're living in now, there was a pretty cool little playground up the road that had this type of roundabout

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It was a bit sad when they took it out (they replaced all of the equipment in that playground) but in fairness the playground was at least moved to a better location (went from one side of a building basically in the middle of a carpark to adjoining a field and...still kind of attached to a carpark but at least there's the option to run on the field rather than into carpark all around or a fence).

Do you remember these monstrosities? :D

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There was a really big circular one not far from where I grew up and we had so much fun and took so many injuries on that thing XD

There was a big "nature play" push where as well as trying to get people to go out into literal nature, playgrounds were being decorated with straight up petrified logs/parts of trees and/or equipment made of wood starting from some years ago. I sometimes wonder if it was at least partly due to a realisation that making things too safe stunts development and judgement and stuff.