Taken on Tuesday the 10th of May 2005
Located at the Summerland site, towards the north of Douglas Bay on the A11 King Edward Road in Onchan, Isle of Man. See a map.
Listed under Architecture, Douglas, Onchan, Transport
Summerland
The Summerland site is unfortunately well known for the disaster that occurred when a fire spread through the Summerland leisure centre on the night of 2 August 1973. Fifty people were killed and eighty seriously injured. This photo is of the rebuilt complex that was opened in 1978, and once featured a footbridge across the main road that was partially removed. The Manx Electric Railway still travelled under the remaining structure of the footbridge until the site was again razed in 2005. Part of the 1970′s structure still remains intact in 2011 as there is concern that removal may cause the cliff to collapse. Despite plans for a new leisure complex called “The Wave” in 2009, plans were dropped after a breakdown of negotiations between the Sefton Group and the Isle of Man Government Department of Tourism and Leisure, an architectural proposal that I was involved with during an internship that year.
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