Glass green house and kids safety

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We have inherited a classic old glass green house from the previous owners and not it is spring I'm starting to think whether to use it or get rid of. We have little kids, a lot of the time they have friends around. It is near the play area (swings and a slide). Do you think it is dangerous to keep it? So far the badgers have managed to break in and smashed one glass into thousands of pieces. And on another occasion the storm has broken one part of the roof (also loads of glass everywhere) and we haven't been here long at all.
Is it an asset or a burden? Please help to decide. Oh and I'm not a pro gardener but would probably try growing some veg

Depends on the glass. Sounds like hort glass which is nasty if broken. You could find the brand and change the panes to toughened safety glass.

Oh it is the kind of glass that shatters to tiniest pieces if broken. I hated trying to pick it out of the grass. And the whole construction is made of flimsy aluminium (?) not a work of art. And it is on a concrete patch which I reckon we would need to dig out if we decide to get rid of it. Probably an expensive task?

No brand it is quite old but can still be fit for purpose I suppose

We’ve had one and it’s not a problem and a lovely warm haven in spring and summer. I bet you could buy some sort of film for the glass or just swap it for Perspex. My son kept his chickens in ours over winter when he was little.

We built a fence to keep my toddlers away from the end of the garden with the greenhouse when they were little

We used it to grow veg, like you inherited in a house move.

One day I was in there with my 3 year old, he was right by me watering a plant. Stumbled and fell through the wall. I grabbed him just before a big shard fell right where he had been lying. We got rid of it. Imo it's just not worth it.

Has some of the glass broken as you say you’ve picked bits out of the grass? It may be a mix of glass types if it’s old as panes often need replacing. Mine is the type that breaks into huge shards as I found out after a storm but I don’t have children. I definitely wouldn’t have a greenhouse with children unless I was 100% sure it was safety glass or it had a fence around it.
Child at my school as killed in a freak glass door accident years ago and it’s made me very wary of kids and glass.

None dangerous roundish pieces as opposed million shardy pieces? If so then keep it it’s fine.