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I remember going in about 99 with the Brownies and it was absolutely chucking it down. The park wasn't particularly full because we pretty much walked onto the tower of terror and it was so quiet that we went round about 4 times before we were bored and got off. There was no one else in the queue.

Family of 4 travel to blackpool spend day at theme park, food, drinks, hotel for 1 night total cost 480.00. Cheaper to go Morocco for week 😂

Time to move on blackpool, the theme park is finished, the hotels bars etc are empty many closed down. Most Brits just save and go aboard for fun and games the uk is too expensive for what little you get

Regarding Harry Matthews who was the maintenance worker who was killed. My first memories of Harry are when I started in 1998, he was the member of staff who trained me to operate the section 2 rides a few weeks before the season opened. He was a great guy, funny and kind, extremely good at his job. Reliable and friendly, he was admired by everybody bar non in the park. He made a grave error of judgement which cost him his life. Luckily for me I didn't work there when the accident happened, but I have friends who were there. It was a great shock to us all, and I still think of him fondly.

This is a great series of videos! Really enjoyable and I’d love to see one similar for American adventure 😊😊

That promotion to get Grand Parents in for free so they can see their grandkids have fun is so heart-warming

The story group leased it to knights leisure Ltd and the new thing they advertised as the new thing for the 2012 season was the website 😂

I live in the area but I never once visited Camelot theme park. However this video did reminded me of a time in the late 90s. I remembered going to a rally car event there 👍

Another enjoyable video buddy, although when you said when Camelot got £200 worth of money and wouldn't happen now as everyone is contactless! Not everyone is-some people still carry cash 👍🏻 Also see/read on your poll that Flamingo Land won, when do you start filming that video Chris????

I was quite surprised when the park closed down. I did attend frequently in the latter years and the park was never deserted. It was always busy, the queues were long and it was a fun park! Maybe it was the incidents and frequent change of ownership that started to make people think differently about how much they trusted the park.

Anyone else find it weird that so many UK theme parks opened in the 80s? Camelot, Alton Towers, American Adventure, Thorpe Park to a certain extent. Anyone got any ideas why this may be? Do we think it was linked to Disney World opening around that time?

Thank you so much for these videos, mate. Like I said under an earlier video, Camelot was a massive part of my childhood and was my favourite place in the world. Not only have you hit the nostalgia, you've answered a lot of questions I had about ride timelines etc.

Always sad to see a theme park close but this place was run down for years beforehand. We used to go on school trips to Camelot even though we lived on the outskirts of Blackpool and PB would've made more sense. Made for some great exploring when it did close too. Same with Pleasure Island at Cleethorpes as I'm from there originally. Keep up the great videos 👍

3:55 I live not far from that windmill 😂 Great series dude!

Another great series. Can't wait for the flamingo land series which along with lightwater valley are my closest parks. Hope you do a series on lightwater valley one day

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i went there once with school there main rollercoaster gave me pain for days after but it was a blast the whole park when ya a kid ya just wanted castles wizards dragons and knights etc got say i was born in 80s so some the stuff ya talk about i dont know

You should do one on Flambards.

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Living in Accrington and driving past Camelot on the way to Southport (or Blackpool), we never visited the park. I don't think it was ever interesting enough to the family or to a couple of teens.

International company could have saved it pleasurewood hills was Should have hosted bands Knightmare jet coaster at grona lins

Wish i couldve got to Camelot, but it closed when i was younger... Knightmare looked nuts, wish it got saved. Same for Dragon Flyer. Shame the park died tbh, it looked like a cool place, despite all of its issues... Probably cheaper than Pleasure Beach as well

Knightmare was a great coaster and it should have been saved for sure. There were photos on forums back in the day of the knightmare trains being stored at southport pleasureland too.

I recognise that they're not Thoosie parks, but the history of the Gulliver's chain has got to be worth looking at.

great video, i think the land can only be used for leisure or entertainment purposes is what the council want but the scarecity event is good getting to see the old buildings and places

What another excellent video by you Coaster Dad! It has been really interesting to learn more about the Camelot Theme Park in the 2000s! This was another awesome TH-cam video by you Coaster Dad ❤

The decline accelerated due to predatory housing developers. The Hotel was initially bought by a company that wanted to shut it and redevelop it for 1,000 homes and were blocked from doing so, they then sold it on again to another hotel operator who then pretty much divorced it from the operation of the park with them turning it into a country spa hotel. The final owner of the theme park Story Homes was a housing developer so those last 3 years it was pretty obvious they wanted to close the park (they even admitted it in their press release announcing the acquisition saying they had funded the park to remain open for one further year while they developed their plans) and they then put in housing applications for a couple of hundred low density executive homes and a golf course but were turned down by the Council citing lack of supporting services in the village. After the park closed Story Homes just sat on the land for a decade filing new applications for executive homes every 2 or 3 years, in 2018 it was estimated that the land was worth £800m and could accommodate over 5,000 homes.

God I miss Camelot. We love visiting the park for Scare City Experience just to feel the nostaliga of what used to be there. Love these series mate, keep em coming 👏

Gauntlet was my first inversion, and put me off another for a while, weird park but I loved Dragon Flyer and the shows they put on as a kid, but never went back after around 13, still sad to hear when it closed

On the map in the newspaper at 14:52 they got southport mixed up with stockport labelling pleasureland as being there instead of southport. Bonkers how they didn't double check for mistakes like that. Great video, always loved going here as a child, thanks

£60,000 for a life is disgusting considering the 2 girls that lost a leg each on The Smiler got millions and survived

I live very close to the former Camelot site, and they have started to build a few houses on the perimeter. There have been multiple applications to develop the entire site for new housing, but they've been repeatedly rejected because the local infrastructure is highly unsuitable for a massive housing estate, and the locals are dead against it. There have been "SAY NO TO CAMELOT REDEVELOPMENT" posters all over the place for years.

Good series as always. Talking about gate price, the annual pass was around £35, so a lot of teens use to get that as you only needed to go twice. - if i remember correctly the target was £200 for a family of 4 across acess and discretionary spending. The park also used to hire a hell of a lot of students for their first jobs and so you rarely trusted the food. If your mate was old enough to operate a ride (Excalibur 2) they would put it in a more intense mode 😅 whilst you were on. I also remember whirlwind having its own advert too and possibly marketed at the UK's first spinning coaster, although i might be wrong. The story group brought the land, however they did not operate it. It was leased by the knights group (if i remember correctly) which was owned by the former manager of the park and was leased on a year by year basis. I believe poor weather and the Olympics was sighted as the blame for the poor season and it just did not make enough money to continue on to the next year. It was well known by the staff that the park was on borrowed time as the story group purchased the land and were waiting on planning permission to come through on the houses then would 'evict' Camelot. I think the issue with the park was the loss of direction after the 90's and with the likes of Southport (which was in ita former state the stepping stone to then Blackpool) and Gulliver's world which was only further up the motorway and catered for a slightly younger audience it was a bit lost. Knightmare was a brilliant coaster and when it was in japan used to have a mountain front to it. It also had a sister but mirror fliped coaster that i believe had a crash this or last year and is also due to be removed. Anyway ill stop ranting on now, great video!

Seeing Metroland ranked below Camelot on an article featured! That is a disgrace 😂 metroland was class and I have many happy memories as a kid/teenager there. Metroland was way ahead of its time in many ways

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Park was simply in the wrong place...north west is always wet n cold...just not in correct location