Boys crowd around swings at a children's playground. Three boys are seated on the swings with companions behind them ready to push. Others gather between the swings and at the sides  to pose for the camera. The equipment looks new with clean edges to the timber, so it is possible that this playground has just opened. The playground surface looks firm, possibly concrete or bitumen. These surfaces have now been phased out and a range of more resilient, safe surfaces are available.

Note that all the boys are wearing short pants with long socks. Until around the late 1950s, when the wearing of jeans became more widespread and with the withdrawal in England of the Board of Trade controls on clothing manufacture in the early 1950s, boys wore short pants until they reached their early teens.

State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. To be a child August 2004-