Holiday attractions get a reprieve - 1993 and 1983
STAYS of execution were given to two much-loved Scarborough attractions this week 15 years ago.
Councillors had been asked by officers to consider doing away with both the Open Air Theatre and the pirate ship the Hispaniola – which was already laid-up at the Mere, and hadn't operated the previous summer.
But council members decided instead to try to attract private enterprise to bring the derelict theatre in Northstead Manor Gardens back to life - and to attempt to find a way to retain the Hispaniola as an attraction, either at the Mere or on dry land.
(The Hispaniola ended up as a dry-land exhibit, partly because of repair and running costs which were quoted to the council. In fact, however, it went on to have a long sailing career under private-enterprise operators.)
* Twenty-five years ago this week tickets were selling like hot cakes for a James Last Orchestra concert at the little-used Open Air Theatre the following September. There were 7,000 seats – 400 of them deck-chairs on the front path – priced at 10.50 each.
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