Table and chairs: the answer

By ghost of mensforth -

After waiting about a month for an answer to my question'Why is the chair in the foreground bigger than the other three?' I have given up and am now going to tell you why the 'chair' in the foreground of this photo of the 'table and chairs' at Reestones Place is bigger than the other chairs... it is quite simple: the table and chairs was built on a slope with an angle of about 30 degrees so it was necessary to make this chair bigger so the user can sit horizontally like the other three....I do believe the one by the flats at Ryal Walk was built on level ground so all the chairs were identical...
I dont know of any other table and chairs on the estate...
So NO ONE gets a biscuit...must do better! :(

Comments

  1. ShadesThursday, September 17, 2009 at 8:07:00 AM GMT

    It probably isn't bigger, just more exposed.

    I seem to remember they were precast and about a yard long. They dug a big deep square hole to install them with about a foot of concrete at the bottom. I think the tables were hollow so that they were managable.

    (Based on vague recollections from forty years ago, watching this staff appearing in the late stages of completion).

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  2. AnonymousFriday, March 5, 2010 at 12:23:00 PM GMT

    The bottom of Beal Green also had a concrete 'settee' type thing as well as swings which were taken down

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