It's hard to imagine but Salford nearly became home to a massive pleasure park known as Fun City. Back in 1927, proposals for the attraction in Salford were submitted to the council.
The park would have been built by redeveloping the land used for the old cattle market on Cross Lane, which the council had leased to the Central Midland Trust Ltd.
Robert Atkinson was appointed the site's architect, while Sir Owen Williams was appointed the project's engineer. It was the Golden Age of cinema and the attraction was to include a massive picture house with seating for 2,500. READ MORE: There were no speed cameras, no CCTV, they all knew the risks but some didn't make it READ MORE: The 'rite of passage' school trip to a little piece of Salford in North Wales The plans also included a large capacity dance hall and restaurant with seating for over 1,000 people.
According to the Liverpool Journal of Commerce, it would have been the largest exhibition hall in the world. The dimensions of the main hall were to be 625ft by 230ft, and with its subsidiary halls and offices would have a total area of 190,750 square feet.
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