Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Blimey!!

[MarthasGinYard]

Now I know the Grand National and Big Dipper have been there since Gods Dog, my own DF who is 85 was recollecting stories of riding them In the 50's and how 'bone shaker' they were then....

But NOTHING can have prepared me for the experience.

And they actually look in parts like old pallets and crates nailed together....

With bits missing!!

Any recollections??

went on the wild mouse when i was a teenager with my friends. the actual front of the inside of the carriage fell out onto our feet it was terrifying . i was kicking it back into place whilst being flung about all over. never rode it again. was glad when it was closed it should have been closed years before!!!

All the old 'No Standing up' signs on the rides had me thinking this must have been a 'thing' in the day

It was, Marthas. Very much so. It was always groups of boys or young men who did it, unsurprisingly. Standing up as they went over the top of a dip, waving their arms in the air and shouting.

Anyone remember the scouts eating their lunch on it on that programme that no one mentions anymore?

I thought that was the Corkscrew? I went on that just after it opened - with a pack of crisps!

Abandoned theme park near Chernobyl

No, was definitely the Revolution, it's on YouTube

I have a vague recollection of something on Blue Peter with people eating on the corkscrew but maybe I'm imagining it all.
The Revolution one with the Scouts was the appalling JImmy Saville

@floraloctopus

I remember this !

^^1988

They demolished Blobbyland/Crinkly Bottom in Happy Mount Park in Morecambe in 2014. It was creepily derelict for years though..

Is the freaky laughing clown still there??
Oh I have happy memories. I loved the bob sleigh type ride on the white semi-tunnel.

Yes @soola!!

Was that the Avalanche user ?

DH and I have been talking about taking the kids to BPB, we both went as kids but haven't been back since so good to know there's still some things we'll remember there.

As a 10 year old I went on 'The greatest show' with my dad, and mum in the car behind. The ride somehow got stuck just as we'd come out and were suspended mid air. We were halfway between being out and back in again (IYSWIM?) and hung there until they got it working again. Mum in the car behind was close enough to the opening that they pulled her back in, but we were stuck for around half an hour!

Some of my very happiest childhood memories are of BFB, my dad loved it there and we'd spend every day wandering around and going on as many rides as possible while my mum and aunties sat getting sloshed on gin. My dad passed away 4 years ago and I know it'll be bittersweet going back

The wild mouse has gone!!!!!! 😕😕 omg the memories of a friend and I getting on it only for the attendant to set it off before she had sat down properly and we spent the entire ride screaming/laughing / hysterical as I clung into her as she was basically crouched on my knee.
Thought we would meet our maker that day.

I never did the steeplechase. Didn't open until 1977 so missed it in my youthful visits.

Time40

I can just imagine that just as you describe.