Manchester’s first new city centre public park for 100 years opened its gates on Wednesday and has eight slides declared “so scary” by delighted children given the first go.
One of the slides transports riders over the River Medlock, a largely forgotten Mancunian waterway which has been under concrete there for the last 150 years. Another offers what feels like a near-vertical drop – a tonic for those nostalgic for the days when playgrounds carried a genuine sense of peril. One has been made accessible for children in wheelchairs.
