The Summerland Disaster: The Isle of Man Fire That Killed 50

Seeing Red A True Crime Podcast by Mark Randell & Bethan Trueman

Aug 25, 20261:18:22Society & Culture

On 2 August 1973, thousands of holidaymakers were enjoying an evening at Summerland, a vast state-of-the-art leisure complex on the seafront in Douglas, Isle of Man. Within minutes, it had become the scene of one of the...

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