Blackpool pleasure beach

According to my mum, steeple chase didn’t even have seatbelts years ago.

@PurpleFlower1983 thank you so much for sharing that clip!
We went on a teacher training day to BPB earlier this year and it was absolutely amazing- I kept pointing out all the missing attractions from my childhood.

Didn't Red Rum turn up n the illuminations once too ? (Not him personally with his hooves obvs !) Used to train down the road on Southport beach

Anyone remember The Ranger ? It would be mid 80's, it was a pirate ship that went upside down

Hoof Hearted backwards is Detraehfooh, which doesn't mean anything (apart from being one of the lost kingdoms in Game Of Thrones) - but it's still the most perfect racehorse name that has ever been or ever will be

You had to be the one.

You don’t know what you’re missing. I went a couple of years ago and that horse racing roller coaster is amazing. I was frightened to death the whole way round but it’s the most unusual and thrilling ride I’d been on in a long time (mostly because you spend the whole ride being petrified about being flung off!).

That should say me and DH obviously.

But to answer your question....

Nostalgia. Both me and DS went regularly as children. It was part of our childhood. It nice to share those memories and experiences with DS.

Yes it's run down but it is what it is and you can still have fun.

I was waiting for a comment like this..... surprised it too so long!

I'm shocked anyone goes to Blackpool full stop

What other rides do you like in Blackpool? I think valhalla is a good one

All of them! Especially the ones I went on as a kid. I remember my dad talking me into going on the Revolution and Pepsi Max when I was about 10. Now I do the same with DS!

We're going in half term at DS's request!

OP, I have only ever been to Blackpool once in the early 90s, went on that ride (Steeplechase) and have been telling folk about it ever since for exactly the same reasons as you!!

At one point I remember there being a steep drop below one of the corner turns - it wouldn't have taken much to fall off with all the jolting either.

Cannot believe it's still going - in exactly the same way, it seems!

Re-read my post then look up what it looked like 🙄 I’m well aware of what the grand national is thanks actually being from the area and having been to Blackpool many times

This is a good watch for all of us feeling nostalgic at this thread! I loved Blackpool as a kid! My grandparents took me for a week every August from being 5 to 15. Precious memories!

It burned down sadly!

Who's been watching The Shining , then?!

Watched the video of it-you are SO exposed it looks really scary. Can't believe people are saying "well no one's fell off it yet", so if a drunk driver said he's never crashed his car yet you'd say "carry on then that's fine!". No one had fell out of that drop ride in Orlando until someone did. And the Drayton manor rapids were supposed to be safe too. There are usually lots of red flags and minor injuries before tragedy strikes.

Ah Blackpool memories.

Jungle Jim's and getting rescued by my dad as I got scared on one of the rope things.

Dawn of time ride in there as well. Was loads to do in the tower and my parents just left me to it while they watched the entertainment and got drunk!

Professor peabodys and the massive vertical slide. At first my dad used to hold me over it till I got brave enough to go myself until I burst my chin open on it. I was 7.

Going on the Pepsi Max for the first time at 9yo in 1994. I think I stopped breathing the whole way round, but then I started going on it myself and sat in the very front seat and had my hands in the air going over the first drop. If you sat at the back you got whipped over it.

The PlayStation when at the top you'd fly out your seat when it came back down. Again legs and arms out and it felt like flying. Before that was the monster.

Also the day I went on the Pepsi Max for the 1st time it crashed later that day. Think 9th July 1994 (from memory so may be wrong) because they had 3 trains on, so one going up lifthill, one going round and one coming into station but the emergency brakes went on and 2 trains crashed into each other.

Also the avalanche has crashed. We saw the train still on the tracks with the tarp over it.

I went on valhalla and something happened so all the lights came on. Ruined it a bit but never stopped me going on it.

Steeplechase just grip hard with your knees and hold on and you won't be thrown about.

Unfortunately not been in about 14 years so I don't have an opinion on the new rides however I'm dying to get back but the River Caves are closed, Goldmine is now Wallace and Gromit, Wild Mouse is gone, looks like PlayStation (iceblast) is going, Trauma Towers doesn't seem to be open and Gran Prix is gone.

Maybe it was the Grand National rollercoaster @Passwordsaremynemesis ?

I went to Blackpool on holidays with my folks in the early to mid 70s and my mum used to talk for years about how she thought she was going to die on the Steeplechase! So I can’t see how it only opened in 1977. We went to Spain in 76, and my folks divorced in 77, we hadn’t been to Blackpool for years by then.

Edit I am wondering now if it was the Gold Mine? I will have to ask mum!

🤣🤣🤣 that's hilarious!!

Yuk, glad I'm too old to go back.
The Monster Drop was brilliant though. At the bottom it had a couple of curves to slow you down. Still kept going through.

I got stuck on one of the hanging things in there and had to be rescued 🤣🤣