From the flumes at the ‘Commie’ and Leith Water World, to the ultimate soft play experience at Little Marcos, there are so many fun summer holiday things and places in Edinburgh that kids can no longer do and visit.
Gone but not forgotten also, are the annual and popular Edinburgh Festival Cavalcade and Fringe Sunday events which were held every year at the start of the world’s largest arts festival.
While Edinburgh amusement parks Fun City and Marine Gardens are now distant happy memories for former Edinburgh schoolkids.
9. Fringe Sunday
Normally held at Holyrood Park, although sometimes at the Meadows, this opener for the Fringe was great for Edinburgh kids during the school summer holidays, with the fun event providing so much to do, and a way for audiences to sample the wide array of performances at the Fringe. Due to lack of sponsorship, the event was cancelled in 2009. Photo: David Moir
10. Marine Gardens
Opened in May 1909, Edinburgh Marine Gardens in Portobello covered around 30 acres of land stretching west from King’s Road to the Dog and Cat Home. This large amusement park was the brainchild of a group of businessmen who wished to re-use buildings from the highly successful Scottish National Exhibition, which had been held in Saughton Park, Edinburgh, in 1908. Popular with local kids during the school summer holidays, the complex closed down permanently in 1939 after again being taken over by the military, with the area being redeveloped after the Second World War, and is now the site of Lothian Buses' Seafield Depot and car dealerships. | Submitted Photo: Contributed