The Municipal Slaughterhouse was built in the Campoamor neighbourhood in 1935, moving from its previous location in Calle Palmera. The building was accessed from Calle Mayor, through a stone and iron fence that led to the central courtyard and the two large warehouses that made up the building. The Slaughterhouse was equipped with all the hygiene and health requirements demanded at the time to supply the local butchers.
In the 1940s, the Campoamor neighbourhood was still undeveloped and sparsely populated. At the door of the Slaughterhouse there was a public fountain to supply water to the residents of the neighbourhood. In those years there was also the Campoamor fountain, in what is now Calle de la Fuente, and the one on the Cotillas road, with timetables established by the Town Hall for its supply, to which the sewers had access with jugs to cover the need for drinking water.
In 1953, the municipal quantity surveyor Diego Soler directed the repair work on the slaughterhouse, which was carried out by the sewerage master builder Jesús Zapata Martínez. That same year, the municipal corporation agreed to transform the current slaughterhouse into a marketplace, with thirty covered stalls and sufficient surface area to provide a service to the local residents. In the end, this project was not carried out, and another nearby site was chosen in the same neighbourhood, where the football pitch was located. In view of the urban and demographic growth of the Campoamor neighbourhood, in order to avoid possible sanitary problems, it was also decided to build a new slaughterhouse in Calle Madrid, on the site where the old Salvador cemetery had been located, Camino Real a Madrid. Both projects were designed by the architect Pedro Cerdán Fuentes.
In the space occupied by the old Municipal Slaughterhouse, the garden and the Campoamor National School were built, next to the cliff that separated it from the parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. From its origins it was a very popular leisure area for the residents of the Campoamor neighbourhood.
