At Scarborough: Ride on.....

The towering mechanism stopped, never to go again. Still. Standing. Dominating. Still there. Rusted.

The chair lift. I remember as a child. My legs swung free in the chair carts. So high up. Such a long way down. It led to a wonder world at the top of the hill. A theme park. A zoo. A dolphinarium.

It doesn't lead anywhere now. Children play around the slopes. The chair lift gone. The children ask what it is...."why is it gone?" Red tape, bureaucracy, package holidays abroad. It was an ambitious idea . You can visit a dolphinarium anywhere warm in the world, just not in Scarborough anymore.