"The people of Kirkby really have been lumbered with a heap of old rubbish."

Martin Young visits Kirkby, near Liverpool, to see its great white elephant. The Kirkby Ski Slope was built without planning permission, out of rubbish, over a water main and on land not belonging to the council. It's also almost certainly the wrong way round, given that the base of the slope runs perilously close to the M57.

The ski slope, which has cost local rate payers some £140,000, is to be demolished. Not a single resident has ever skied on it. How has this happened?

Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Thursday 16 October, 1975.


You can watch James Hogg's 'skiing tour of the north' report, referenced in this piece, here:    • 1975: A SKIING Safari to the ENGLISH ...  




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