The Summerland leisure complex was designed to hold 10,000 tourists coming to the seafront and included a bingo hall, five floors of amusement games and a dance hall - but there were mistakes in the design and glaring fire safety errors on the night of a deadly blaze.
In what was a safety scandal on the scale of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017, Summerland burned down in large part because of the flammable materials used in its construction.
Fire disaster which claimed 50 lives that we should never forget liverpoolecho.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from liverpoolecho.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Jackie and her best friend Jane were 13 when her mum took them to a futuristic seaside leisure park on the Isle of Man. Two hours later, she was the only one of them to survive an inferno that killed 50.
On a rain-sodden August evening in 1973, Jackie Norton (right), then 13, was on her first proper holiday - a trip to the Isle of Man with her mum, Lorna, 35, and best friend Jane Tallon (left), also 13.