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| Material Type: | Booklet |
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| Monographic Corporate Author(s): | Ministry of Education |
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| Monograph Title: | New School Playing Fields, 1955. |
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| Publishing Information: | Great Britain: H. M. Stationery Office |
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| # of Pages: | 86 |
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| Collation: | 86 pp. |
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| Series: | Ministry of Education Building Bulletin No. 10 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Sports turf; Construction; Establishment; Maintenance
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| Geographic Terms: | England |
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| Abstract/Contents: | Includes: Introduction; Educational Requirements (Primary Schools; and Secondary Schools); Definitions (Braird; Compost; Corticium; Damping Off; Fusarium; Grading; Ley; Loam; Marl; Soil; Soil Crumb; Soil Structure; Soil Texture; and Top-Dressing); Choice of Sites (Size, Shape, and Contours; Soil; Drainage Possibilities; and Existing Turf); The Layout and Construction of New Playing Fields (Principles of Planning; Layout (General Principles; Cricket Pitches; Pitches for Winter Games; Lawn Tennis Courts; Basket Ball and Netball; Athletics; School Gardens; Turf Nurseries; Trees; Paths; and Water Supply); Direct Conversion of Suitable Grass Fields into Playing Fields; Construction (General Principles; Fields Requiring Minor Grading Only; Fields Requiring Major Grading (Or Major Levelling); Controlled Tipping; Soil and Turf on the Site of Buildings and Paved Areas; Banks; and Fencing); Preparing the Seed Bed (General Principles; Cultivations; Cleaning the Land; Soil Tests; Improving Heavy Soils; Improving Light Soils; Lime; and Fertilisers); Establishing the Turf (General Principles; Grass Seeds; Rates of Sowing; Sowing the Seed; After-Care of the Young Sward; and Turf and Turfing); Draining (General Principles; Planning a Drainage System; Pipe Draining; Mole Draining; Ditches; Records; and Existing Drains); The Establishment of Special Turf Areas (General Principles; Cricket Squares; Lawn Tennis Courts; Turf Nurseries; and Bitumen Treatment of Turf); The Establishement of Non-Turf Areas (Hard Porous Pitches; Hard Tennis Courts; and Non-Turf Cricket Pitches); Supervision; and Maintenance During the Defects Liability Period); Specifications, Bills of Quantities and Costs (General Principles; Specimen Clauses; and Costs); and Maintenance (General Principles; Mowing; Harrowing and Spiking; Rolling; Fertilisers and Lime; Top-Dressing; Weed Control; Control of Earthworms and Other Pests; Control of Diseases; Wear and Tear; Cricket Squares; Lawn Tennis Courts; Banks; Watering; Non-Turf Areas; Maintenance Schemes; Decentralised Systems; and Centralised Systems). |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | See also "New school playing fields" Sports Turf Bulletin, 28 January-March 1955, pp. 3-5, R=100772 R=100772
See also revised edition, Playing Fields and Hard Surface Areas, 1966, R=39738 R=39738
See also 2nd [3rd] edition, Playing Fields and Hard Surface Areas, 1982, R=164928 R=164928 |
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| Note: | "February 1955"
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Includes appendix: "School sites and playing fields: minimum areas"; pp. 73-75
Includes appendix: "The recognition of soil texture by handling"; p. 76
Includes appendix: "Seeds mixtures"; p. 77
Includes appendix: "Sampling seed for analysis"; p. 78
Includes appendix: "Sampling soil and turf for test"; pp. 79-80
Includes appendix: "Time taken for various agricultural operations"; p. 80
Includes appendix: "Specimen clauses from playing field specifications"; pp. 81-84
Includes appendix: "Typical maintenance schemes"; p. 85
Includes appendix: "Reference books"; p. 86
Includes drawings of field layouts |
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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 bulletin concerning development of sports field facilities for primary and secondary schools. It includes site selection, layout, specifications, construction, seedbed preparation, planting, and maintenance of turfgrasses for playing fields for Great Britain. There are drawings of field layouts for a wide range of sports. There are sections on nonturf surfaces. A small list of selected references is in the back." p. 288-289 |
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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):
Ministry of Education. 1955. New School Playing Fields. 86 pp. Great Britain: H. M. Stationery Office. |
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