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

I went to two primaries - one in London and one in Cheshire.

I'm sure we called them The Bars in one and the Apparatus in the other but I can't remember which way round.

Blackbear - still playtime here, 15 min morning and afternoon, longer for reception. Plus a long playtime at lunch as well.

Ours is very much like overnightangel has posted, but we have some wooden and better bars, beams and ramps to attach to it too. No ropes. We have a monkey bar attachment as part of it as well.

Maybe Kelvin is a modern compnay name for it? Your tweet is relatively recent. I was at primary school in the 70's!

Ours was the big apparatus/Wall bars.

Clearly a few people also called it Kelvin-wonder where that came from?! Was it the make?

At my primary, the teachers used to call the white PVA the Melvin! Where did that come from?!

Wall bars, SW :)

Apparatus - London

Monkey bars? The ones that are like a horizontal ladder

Apparatus - my kids go to my old primary and it's still there, but they don't use it anymore. This it's just too much hassle to remove it.

As I said Kelvin frame in Glasgow. 1970 onwards for me.

Derbyshire, mid 90s - it was wooden and called the "A frame" ... Apparatus was smaller stuff like benches and vaults. I only recall using it once or twice though during primary school whereas we had separate ropes, climbing ladders etc that we used a lot.

The apparatus - central Scotland, I was at primary school 1995-2002.

We all lost our shit when it was brought out

Apparatus

The bars - up the wall in the school hall

The apparatus. It was so exciting seeing it all set out in the hall when we went in. Music and Movement was so boring!

East Midlands, mid 80's

Apparatus. Late 70's, early 80,s Lincolnshire. I was one of the best (if not the best) rope climbers in the school. May explain my arthritis.....

Distinctly recall it being referred to as the Kelvin Appratus - Google search led me to your query. Grew up in Renfrewshire.

Apparatus and I HATED it. That and the bloody horse.

‘The apparatus’. I found it very exciting when we had PE on it, but I couldn’t climb up the rope!

Climbing frame. 80s in SW

Definitely the apparatus (70s primary). The children in the school I currently work in refer to it as "big blue".

Apparatus, so exciting when we got to use it!

I’m sure it was just “the bars”. Oh, the horror of going into the gym and seeing “the ropes” were out too. I’ve never had upper body strength…