Chipton Park Playground, Charnwood Road, St Kilda
A high tower with cute curved blue roof, metal slide, metal spiral ladder, rope net ladder, and rope spiders web climbing frame. Also a spinning disk with seat, small wide metal slide on a mound reached by block steps, birds nest swing and two standard swings.
Plenty of log steppers, unshaded seats, small grassy area and a lovely wooden table with chessboard on top. There is a water tap and one standard unshaded table. Parking was not easy to find.
History of Chipton Park
Chipton Park is named for the house that once stood on this site. The eleven-room mansion at 19 Crimea Street was built in 1871, on one of two adjoining blocks of land bought by Richard Gibbs in 1870. It was formerly the family home of Richard Gibbs (1832 to 1904) and Catherine Browse (1837 to 1921). The house itself was named after Catherine's birthplace in Devon.
Harry Browse Gibbs (1858 to 1918), eldest of Catherine and Richard's eight children, spent his childhood at Chipton. He was an esteemed local architect and the senior partner of the firm H B Gibbs and Finlay. His projects included the National Bank in Grey Street, the George Hatelion Fitzroy Street, and the Empire Cafe on the St Kilda Esplanade, which he designed for the Prahran and Malvern Tramway Trust. H B Gibbs was a St Kilda councillor from 1903 to 1918 and Mayor of St Kilda in 1905 to 1906 and 1906 to 1907, during which time he authorised the formation of the St Kilda Foreshore Trust.
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Location
Cnr Charnwood Road and Crimea Street, St Kilda 3182 Map
