MAKING A SPLASH

LEITH Waterworld opened in May 1992, with 10,000 people a week were pouring through its doors.

The centre, one of the biggest in Scotland at the time, was being built by the Walker Group for Edinburgh District Council as part of a £14m redevelopment of Leith Central Station.

In 1993 it emerged the complex was earning £100,000 a year less than expected because most users were children or adults who received discounts. The complex was plagued by a string of problems and in 1995 the News reported it had accrued a £1m deficit before it even opened.