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Finding and Protecting the Carnegie Playing Fields

Finding and Protecting the Carnegie Playing Fields
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Author:
Douglas White and Alison McCann
Year: 2015
In the 1920s and 30s the Carnegie UK Trust gave grants of over £200,000 to help establish 900 playing fields across the UK and Ireland. But no central record of these fields were kept. Download this report to read about the UK’s Carnegie Playing Fields and find out more about our pilot project, which has found 14 ‘lost’ Carnegie Playing Fields.

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