Saturday 5 December 2020

Bringing back the joy - to the Churchyard


 Work has started on the new Joyslide for St James's Churchyard (above). The new slide will open in 2021, exactly one hundred years after the first slide was officially opened at a ceremony which included Arthur Carr and Ada Salter:


The original slide was the brainchild of Arthur Carr of Peak Freans who saw children sliding on the granite slope by the side of the church steps on his way to work:


The new slide is the brainchild of architect, Fergus Carr, Arthur's great great grandson


Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to bring this project to fruition.

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  1. Thankyou to all involved. I slid on the original many times in a now far off Bermondsey childhood.

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    1. Well done, everyone! Hope it's as much fun for the local kids as the original was.

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