Did your school have a metal climbing frame in the gym hall? What did you call it?

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In the depths of Glasgow, we had a Kelvin frame and I presumed this was a universal term... DH is claiming that it is not and Google isn't backing me up.

It's like the dinner school debate all over again

The apparatus

At another school, big ones like in the above pics were the apparatus. Some kids could climb uo and down them, but not me.

Wall bars here too. Devon, late 80s early 90s. We only really used them at the end of term free-for-all, when we'd climb up them and chat for the rest of the lesson.

Apparatus for us was the other things you dragged out: beam, horse etc.

I’ll back you up OP as a fellow Weegie and primary teacher - it is indeed a Kelvin frame 😊

Here is a tweet from 2017 about it

Apparatus and I still remember how scared I was everytime when it was pulled out to use.

Apparatus in eighties South London

@hibiscuswater yes!! My mate Davey chopped the top off his finger by sticking his hand under one of those in about 1987! We were banned from it afterwards, shame, it was my favourite bit of playground kit.

Jungle gym

The bars (NE Scotland circa 1995)

My gran was the PE teacher for my school and about twenty others in the area - never let us use them once . School burnt to the ground in 2000 and the bars burnt with it . When the new school was built I genuinely can’t remember if they installed bars again but I have a feeling they did . Much smaller though . The ones that were there before were bloody massive . I must ask her actually if she ever in her career let any schools use them !

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Apparatus - Surrey

Kelvin frame (Glaswegian here). Apparatus was all the gym equipment as in benches, horse, mats etc.

Yes to dinner school. Also a playpiece to eat at playtime.

weegie here.

Apparatus

and it's dinner school

actually maybe not a true Weegie.

School was in East Renfrewshire

The apparatus in Yorkshire. It always found it quite daunting as a child, it pulled out from the wall in the hall and just never seemed safe to me.

We still have one in the infant school I work at. It's just called the climbing apparatus.

Apparatus in south London.
Wasn't it amazing when the teacher just unlocked a few latches and rolled out a huge jungle jim. I loved it but unfortunately my school had a decided slant towards country dancing so we were always do-so-do'ing instead of climbing and swinging.

Apparatus in Cheshire

Also "the apparatus". It sounds a bit sinister

The Apparatus.

The Bars in Lanarkshire.
Apparatus was all the gym equipment as in benches, horse, mats etc.

Also a playpiece to eat at playtime! - Yes to that, bugs me no end playtime has been renamed snack time, surely play is more important on a load of reasons??

Never heard of Dinner School or Kelvin frame. Kelvin makes me think they were developed in Glasgow - just a hunch!

We had a kelvin frame on the outskirts of Glasgow too. It's not just you OP.

It was The Apparatus in Essex too. Sounds strange to my ears now though.