Oral history
Sue remembers the variety of family entertainment on offer at Belle Vue
It was lovely to see families going out and enjoying themselves because I mean at that stage in time in the `50s really, it was not that long after the second world war and family entertainment was just sort of beginning to come back.
Photo from 1959-1960
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