Summer and school holidays may have been coming to an end, but there is plenty to look back on after days playing in the sun.
Children could chat and relax or enjoy more energetic pursuits as in Picture 1 taken at Blackbird Leys in Oxford in 1972.
Some were happy to mill around, standing or sitting, while the livelier, more acrobatic clambered on the giant monkey climber.
Just as active was Nadia Naqib, in Picture 2.
She was in action at Hinksey Park in Oxford in 1976, possibly hoping to outdo her Olympic namesake.
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci had just scored the first 10 out of 10 in Olympic history at the summer Olympics in Montreal.
She scored a series of perfect 10s en route to winning three gold medals.
Perhaps our own Nadia was hoping to emulate her!
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Picture 3 shows Susan Jacobs putting the final touches to a mural at a playscheme at Headington Quarry in Oxford in 1973.
Organisers were so impressed they were considering entering the mural in a national competition.
Children flocked to the playscheme to enjoy treasure hunts, cycle races, doll making and, for the more courageous, a leap from an old telegraph pole.
Youngsters in East Oxford also had a swinging time in 1979, as Paula Adams demonstrated as she descended from a wooden tower in Picture 4.
The site in Bullingdon Road was one of the few places to play in the area, and that was due to disappear when the city council started building homes there.
Children at the Dragon playscheme made the most of the derelict land, which was once the home of Oxford builders, Benfield and Loxley.
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The Oxford Mail reported: “The youngsters taking part each day look as though it’s more fun to emulate Tarzan in the open air than stay indoors and watch his adventures on television.”
Picture 5 from 1971, with children playing in the sand, could have been taken at the seaside.
In fact, it was at a summer playscheme at South Park, at the foot of Headington Hill.
While Picture 6, taken in 1975, shows more ambitious youngsters tackling a high cat walk at South Oxford adventure playground off Abingdon Road.
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