Sunny Vale Gardens, Hipperholme, Halifax The Favourite Pleasure Resort
Leaflet advertising attractions and amusements at local pleasure gardens, Hipperholme, Halifax.
Author: Joseph Bunce
Date: not dated
Location: Hipperholme
Format: Handbill
Document ID: 101373
Library ID: P790L1728
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 1960's and 1970's the site was used for speedway and stock car racing. Very little now remains of the park.
