Playtime for Grandma: Council opens new playground for the over-60s

Like most playgrounds, it is filled with smiling faces and laughter. But these faces have seen more of life than you might expect, and the laughter is a little more mature in tone.

Britain’s first playground for the over-60s opens today in Manchester.

Instead of slides and roundabouts, it is equipped with machines specially designed to provide gentle exercise for different parts of the body such as hips, legs and torso.

The Massage offers upper body exercise, the Skate trains leg muscles, the Ski works the hips, while the Press tones the stomach and legs.

There are also stations for pull-ups, push-ups and pedalling and, to stretch the mind as well as the body, engravings of quotes from famous philosophers dotted around the park.

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One Response to Playtime for Grandma: Council opens new playground for the over-60s

  1. noevadeaux says:

    I think this is abfab.

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