Sunny Vale, Hipperholme, near Halifax
View of the boating lake of Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens, Hipperholme, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Hipperholme
Format: Postcard - Mono
Document ID: 102048
Library ID: 34561404
Proprietor Joseph Bunce opened Sunny Vale Pleasure Gardens on the 1st of May 1880, at Hipperholme. Originally Bunce bought the land to create a market garden.
The attraction included a miniature railway, two boating lakes, a skating rink, swings and a maze all within a 40-acre park. Situated near Hipperholme Railway Station the location was ideal, attracting upwards of 100,000 people at its height. The site was eventually run down and in the 1960s and 1970s the site was used for speedway and stock car racing. Very little now remains of the park.
