One thing Edinburgh has in abundance is large parks and greenspaces for dog walkers to walk their pets, children to play with their friends, and to socialise over a cold one during the summer.
What if we were to go dancing down memory lane all the way to 1908, when one of the capital's most popular parks, both past and present, was consumed by a giant water chute? Yes, really.
During the Scottish National Exhibition's six-month long festival within Saughton Park, one of the many activities that children, or indeed adults, could get involved in was climbing to the top of an enormous tower and clamber into a wooden boat to be launched down a slide by a sailor and into splash into a pool of water.
