For most people White City and those gates are just back the drop to the retail park which in recent years has undergone a makeover.
But it has a long history, starting with the site of the former Manchester Botanic Gardens which hosted the Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857.
After it which has also been the site of an amusement park and a sports stadium for athletics, greyhound and stock car racing.
For those who want to know there are plenty of good references online.
For now, I shall concentrate on the picture.
I have no idea of the date, but it must e after 1907 when part of the former Botanical Gardens was leased to a company who opened the “White City Amusement Park on the site.
And just to the left of the photograph looks to be part of the amusement park.
I like the picture, more for its record of the groups of people going about their business, some of whom may be waiting to go in.
All very different from a day back in 1970 when I along with thousands of others converged on the place to demonstrate against the South African Rugby tour when that country was still locked into Apartheid.
Location; White City
Picture; White City, date unknown, courtesy of Steve
After it which has also been the site of an amusement park and a sports stadium for athletics, greyhound and stock car racing.
For those who want to know there are plenty of good references online.
For now, I shall concentrate on the picture.
And just to the left of the photograph looks to be part of the amusement park.
I like the picture, more for its record of the groups of people going about their business, some of whom may be waiting to go in.
All very different from a day back in 1970 when I along with thousands of others converged on the place to demonstrate against the South African Rugby tour when that country was still locked into Apartheid.
Location; White City
Picture; White City, date unknown, courtesy of Steve
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