Leeds Childhoods - Golden Acre Theme Park

This film shows footage of Golden Acre theme park, opened by the Thompson family in 1932, which was based on the Coney Island theme park in South Brooklyn, New York. It was an ambitious park, with features that were perhaps unique for its time in England including a boating lake, speedway, crazy bicycles, bumper cars and other rides. A similar miniature railway had opened on the North Bay in Scarborough the year before in 1931.