Inside the abandoned wild west themed UK attraction that closed down after just one month

Western World closed down aft conscionable 1 month. (Image: Western Mail & Echo)

Western World, a cowboy-themed parkland successful South Wales that opened with overmuch excitement and a £1 cardinal terms tag, was abandoned conscionable weeks aft its expansive opening connected the tract of an aged colliery successful Rhondda.

The parkland was established successful 1987 connected the grounds of the erstwhile Fernhill Colliery successful Blaenrhondda.

It was supposedly modelled aft Dolly Parton's Dollywood edifice successful Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains, featuring a purpose-built Wild West municipality astatine the ft of Rhigos mountain.

Plans for the parkland included the largest saloon barroom successful South Wales and 12 chalets for guests.

Western World boasted woody shacks, each representing a portion of America, from the Wells Fargo banking institution to Doc Thompson Painless Tooth Pulling, a national courthouse, a ceremonial home, and a gunsmith.

Children were seen successful frilled Western jackets, with immoderate carrying flags linked to the Confederate States of America and others dressed arsenic Old West lawmen.

Buses were lined up successful rows connected the gravel, portion horses and vintage cars transported visitors on the single roadworthy starring to the site. Horse-drawn cart rides were besides a diagnostic astir the park.

A postulation of classical American cars, including a Pontiac Firebird, Chevvy and Cadillac, were spotted driving to and parked astatine the motorboat of Western World.

The Western World project, which outgo astir £1 million, was backed by 7 state and occidental enthusiasts from Birmingham. "They said it couldn't beryllium done,"

Brian Hughes, the antheral down the project, declared astatine the time: "They said it couldn't beryllium done, but we are proving them each wrong."

Hughes anticipated that the allure of the caller Old West would person attracted implicit 100,000 visitors by the extremity of summer. He adjacent asserted that astir 1,000 radical had made reservations earlier the site's completion.

However, the attraction did not execute the success developers had envisioned and it wasn't agelong earlier the expansive strategy turned into tumbleweed.

A specified period aft its archetypal opening, the full parkland closed down owed to alleged fiscal difficulties. By August of the aforesaid year, the past cowboys astatine the Rhondda Western World site had packed up and departed.

Workers were allegedly near adrift aft selling homes and quitting jobs for a caller commencement successful southbound Wales, lone to find themselves supported by the generosity of the Blaenrhondda Action Group with nutrient and aid.