They seem to be becoming popular, should we have some in our district?
The Guardian reports yesterday:
The concrete ping-pong table crouches invitingly in a paved rectangle just inside London Fields park in Hackney. It’s the first unambiguously sunny day of spring, there are acres of sun-warmed lawns ? but it’s the table-tennis table that’s attracting the crowds.
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“We used to play at a youth centre when we were kids, and seeing this on the common brought it all back,” says 39-year-old Darren Holding, pausing between matches against Miguel Barrett. They have been friends since childhood. “The amount of people that use this court and it hasn’t been vandalised ? it feels like everybody in the community knows they need it,” says Holding.
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Others seem to agree, for dozens of table-tennis tables are popping up in parks and public spaces across the UK. In Bristol, the city council has installed tables in three parks and more are on the way. “It is a bit of a snowball effect,” says Nicola Ferris, the council’s sports development officer. In London, 47 tables have arrived over the last month, from Dulwich to Regent’s Park, as part of a pilot programme from the English Table Tennis Association.
Full article here.
Are the bats heavy?
Sounds great but how do you stop them going the same way as the kick wall and the skateboard park ie – covered in graffiti
Bruce : 🙂
RR: I think in a park they would indeed be very vulnerable to graffiti. Would they fit into a more town centre location, say near the Mill? Or near the Freight House in Rochford? Come into the town , have a coffee, play a game of ping pong and then do a bit of shopping? Or is that a bit too whimsical? Or would they get painted on anywhere?