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| Material Type: | Booklet |
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| Monographic Corporate Author(s): | Department of Education & Science |
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| Monograph Title: | Playing Fields and Hard Surface Areas, 1966. |
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| Publishing Information: | London: HMSO |
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| Edition: | Revised |
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| # of Pages: | 92 |
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| Collation: | viii, 84 pp. |
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| Series: | Building Bulletin No. 28 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Sports turf
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| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: Introduction (Value for Money; and The Aims of the Bulletin); The Educational Background (Site and Playing Fields; Primary School Sites; Secondary School Sites; The Dual Use of Site Areas; Primary School Playing Fields; Secondary School Playing Fields; Grass Playing Fields; Grass and Hard Porous Playing Fields; Dual Use of Pitches and Other Facilities; and Costs of Constructing Hard Surface and Playing Field Areas); Sites (Size, Shape and Contours; Soil; Drainage Possibilities; and Existing Turf); Planning and Layout (Planning Stages; General Principles of Layout; Cricket Pitches; Pitches for Winter Games; Lawn Tennis Courts; Basket-Ball and Netball; Athletics; School Gardens; Turf Nurseries; Trees; Paths; and Water Supply); Construction (General Principles; Fields Requiring Minor Grading Only; Fields Requiring Major Grading; Sub-Soil Cultivation; Top-Soiling; Draining; Controlled Tipping of Refuse; Soil and Turf on the Site of Buildings and Paved Areas; Banks; Direct Conversion of Suitable Grass Fields into Playing Fields; and Fencing); Drainage (General Principles; Planning a Drainage System; Pipe Draining; Mole Draining; Ditches; Records; and Existing Drains); Preparing the Seed Bed (General Principles; Cultivations; Cleaning the Land; Green Manuring; Blade Grading; Stones; Soil Amelioration; Physical Improvements; Improving Heavy Soils; Improving Light Soils; Chemical Improvements; Soil Tests; Lime; and Fertilizers); Establishing the Turf (General Principles; Grass Seeds; Rates of Sowing; Sowing the Seed; After Care of the Young Sward; and Turf and Turfing); Special Turf Areas (General Principles; Cricket Tables; Lawn Tennis Courts (Grass); and Turf Nurseries); Hard Surface Areas (Hard Porous Pitches; Running Tracks (Cinder); Tennis Courts (Hard Porous); Tennis Courts (Permanent Non-Upkeep); and Cricket Pitches (Non-Turf)); Specifications, Bills of Quantities and Costs (General Principles; Supervision; and Maintenance During the Defects Liability Period); Maintenance (General Principles; Mowing; Mowing Machinery; Rolling; Harrowing and Scarification; Spiking and Forking; Fertilizers and Lime; Top Dressing; Weed Control; Control of Earthworms and Other Pests; Control of Diseases; Wear and Tear; Cricket Tables; Lawn Tennis Courts (Grass); Banks; Watering; and Non-Turf Areas); and Maintenance, Local Authority Systems (Maintenance Schemes; Decentralised Systems; and Centralised Systems). |
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Library of Congress
Subject Headings: | Athletic fields -- Great Britain -- Design and construction; Athletic fields -- Great Britain -- Maintenance and repair; Recreation areas -- Great Britain -- Design and construction; Playgrounds; Construcoes Esportivas (Arquitetura) |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also 1st edition, New School Playing Fields, 1955 R=10070. R=100700
See also 2nd [3rd] edition, Playing Fields and Hard Surface Areas, 1982, R=164928. R=164928 |
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| Note: | Figures
Tables
Maps
Includes appendix: "Maintenance costs of grass playing fields"; pp. 65-69
Includes appendix: "Specifications for playing fields and other games provisions"; pp. 70-78
Includes appendix: "Seed mixtures and seed/turf analysis"; pp. 79-80
Includes appendix: "Definitions"; pp. 81-82
Includes index; p. 83
"This is a second and extensively revised edition of the Bulletin first published in 1955."
Various codes on back cover, "UDC 712-25"; "S.O. Code No. 27-373-28"; "SfB Ac6"; "3/66"; "K 60" |
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| Annotation from Turfgrass History and Literature: Lawns, Sports, and Golf, by James B Beard, Harriet J. Beard and James C Beard: | "A manual concerning the building and care of playing fields, primarily for schools. Included are site selection, planning, layout, construction, planting, turfgrass establishment, and maintenance." p. 210 |
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| Beard Section Heading: | Bibliography of books/monographs on turfgrass culture |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Department of Education & Science. 1966. Playing Fields and Hard Surface Areas. viii, 84 pp. London: HMSO. |
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