My biggest upset was when they did introduce a charge to enter the Pleasure Beach. I'm not one for rides I never have been, but I used to love the experience of wandering around the Pleasure Beach and watching all the fun of others. The noises. The smells. The screaming. The looking after everyone's bags and belongings as they rode the rides and moreso, The people watching and the ambience of the whole park was great. I miss that. I won't pay the cost that is required just to be a spectator. I'd have no issues if I enjoyed and took part in the rides, but as said they're not for me.xx
being nearly 70 I was going to comment exactly the same as you, thanks for saving me the bother, not been in there since they introduced charging but I did like to see people enjoying themselves.
I am the exact same. I was never 1 for going on rides, just watching people enjoying themselves was enough for me. If I was ever going on a ride I wouldn't mind paying a couple of quid to get on but that was very seldom. I've never been on the big one and I don't know if I ever would. For me to pay to get in to the pleasure beach would be a complete waste of money.
56 now and i've always been a big fan of the rides since i was a little boy but i've not been on The Pleasure Beach since they introduced the entrance fee. I think i read that they introduced the charge to keep out the druggies and low-life's that had started to congregate in there. Whether that's had an effect or not i don't know but i still begrudge having to pay to go in.
@@markyjam1 that's exactly the reason... can you imagine what it would be like now if it were a free for all....all the scumbags , druggies , feral youths , beggars just hanging about....it can't be that way...the pleasure beach is a much safer environment now... school trips are allowed , that wouldn't be the case if it weren't gated....as for paying a tenner for non rider's , maybe they could chuck in a drinks voucher or summat aswell
Reading your comment and whilst your upset at the charge I'm not sure whether you agree with it? If not , let me Paint a wonderful picture of what it would be like if it were still a free for all..... junkies , scumbags , beggars , drunks , feral youths and gangs all hanging around.... sound good to you?? The charge HAS to be in place I'm afraid... don't you see that? The please beach is a much safer environment now than before , school trips wouldn't be allowed for a start if it were not secure and gated...the Tenner entrance fee has to stay , maybe chuck in a drinks voucher or summat aswell
Wow love the history of Blackpool and all the old photography bring back so many memories for me so thankyou so much for putting a big smile on my face hope you and your family are all keeping safe and well
Love the then and now shots it's amazing how you can forget a place in a few short years and how it looked yesteryear. Look forward to seeing the place buzzing again. Jim & Liz.
Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always very interesting regarding pleasure beach past and present nice to know of the history take care xx
Thanks Stephen, another great video. I remember taking the kids to the pleasure beach in the 90's & Bradley Walsh was the resident comedian at the show ( free entry with fairground pass ). Still go now ( both in our 60's ) but river caves & miniature train is highlight. Thanks again John d.😀😀👍
I worked "down the pleas" the Summers of 85 and 86. After the Laughing Man was turned off, it was 30 mins to closing I think, and then we used to leg it into The Star to get slaughtered. There was a resident band called "No Hard Feelings"...brilliant.
Stayed in that new Boulevard Hotel just before the current lock down started. The illuminations were on and my partner had never seen them so we booked a room, when we arrived the rain was horizontal so we only managed to see a couple of coloured lights just outside our room window. Oh well a Blackpool trip that summed up 2020!
Great video Sir. I think I touched on the old and new photos when you had previously put these on. Fantastic to see how things were to how they are now! I’ve got two girls desperate to get up to the Pleasure Beach and Tower. It’s going to cost me a fortune with a overnight stay 🙈. Keep up the superb work sir.
Love Blackpool so much it's always been my favourite place to stay since I was 6yrs old and now 51 and Blackpool is my safe haven for when I need a break
Excellent video love seeing the old photos compared to today, brings back great memories. The grand national is a great ride my favourite ride though was the log flume. Looked very eerie with it quiet and no one around. Can't wait for your next video on the history of the rides. Keep up your brilliant work.
So many memories of old days as kids. Going in the star pub, spending cash in the small amusement arcade opposite, walking along the wall before the big blue was built etc etc. Happy times.
I, too, remember when it was all open at the front and used to race the monorail as it passed overhead. I've had a look for some old pics, but no luck. I can even remember the log flume being built!
It's a fascinating place for sure, like no other, despite the council and developers being so keen to bulldoze most of the history. I hope its fortunes improve and it can reinvent itself as something other than a place for druggies and beggars.
I visit Blackpool at least 3 times a year with the family since the late 70s. But not been in the pleasure beach since they started to charge for entry. Some people like myself are not interested in going on the rides they just like to walk round and have something to eat.
Unfortunately those days are long gone. I too preferred those days but I can see the business sense of charging to get in. On our last 3 visits we have ONLY gone to the pleasure beach, the rest of Blackpool in our opinion is in a really bad state. And what they've done to the tower is disgraceful.
@@stevehadfield5963 agreed, today's Blackpool is the result of 50 years of shortsighted decisions by successive councils and developers who see only £ signs and have no regard for the town's history. The glory days are gone forever.
I really appreciate your videos. I'm originally from Bolton but live in Calgary Canada. My auntie lived in Thornton and I used to visit her. All these areas around Blackpool you visit brings back fond memories of my youth in the 70s. Cheers..keep up the good work
Always fantastic that you know so much about the history of Blackpool, you actually do know the facts...unlike a certain other Blackpool vlogger on TH-cam who shall not be named ;-)
Amazing video of the outskirts of the Pleasure Beach & your old photos , an unbelievable difference were The Star Pub used to be , I didn't know The Log Flume was gone , I loved a good soaking 💦 on that ride ... Would love to see a vlog on all the rides 🎢🎡🎠
Ghost town can't wait to visit when things get back to normal I got photos from when I visited back in the 80s as a boy always try to go back every couple of years love the place
Year 2068, Pleasure beach abandoned and houses to be in place, i can see it happening to most theme parks around the world, they will disappear in the future. But is nice to see how it use to be. The star pub use to have live bands on which were great and the coasters restaurant was an American dinner and as you had you meal you sat in the seat of a waltzer ride seat. Spent many times in the pleasure beach wont be going again though as i have had my time on roller coasters.
I think a lot of the leisure industry is headed for this fate unfortunately. Kids nowadays can get more enjoyment from video games and social media than a wet week on the coast with mum and dad. Especially when VR really takes off, the real world (especially one beset by climate change, resource scarcity, authoritarian govt, economic collapse, and civil conflict) will seem rather crap by comparison to immersive open worlds where you can do and be anything you choose. I see little future for seaside resorts like Blackpool besides as warehousing for addicts and a new economic underclass. Bleak maybe but the most likely outcome.
Love 💘Blackpool we visited Blackpool 2 times year but would pay prices in pleasure Beach years ago you could just walk around watching people on rides but now you have to pay .still fantastic video.
i remember going 2 the ice show with my mum and dad when my mum turned 60 it was her dream 2 go and we all enjoyed it its reaily interesting how times have changed thank you stephen another brilliant video we went 2 the ice show sometime in the 90s
They called it The Hot Ice Show in them days Julie Hargreaves my step sister was one of the star skaters there, I remember the beautiful programs they used to print for the show
Great to see the old photographs of what it used to be compared to what it looks like now! :) It's important that videos like this exist so it can been seen how places change over the years - looking forward to seeing what it looks like in the next 10-20 years, I wonder how much it will change?
A very interesting video, thank you. I am sure in the 1990s at entrancevto South Pier they had a Coronation Street experience. A replica of the street you could walk down and a version of the Rovers, yet no one else seems to remember it. Anyone on here recall it ? Regards Gillian
Sandgrownen and a Seasider at heart but have sinced moved away, still a regular visitor though (pre covid) huge soft spot for the town :) but I must admit (although better recently through investment) the magic of Bpool has gone for me now :( my grandparents ran holiday flats and hotels including a hotel on the prom at one point and I will always have cherished childhood memories of blackpool.
Great video. Remember the open area at the front with Logflume ride. You'll find one of the Logflume cars in Watson Road Park being used as a flower bed.
Completely agree with your comment about charging to get into the Pleasure Beach - it's a far nicer place now and you can tell the money has been reinvested into the park. I understand people's objections but every other major theme park in the country charge an entrance fee regardless of whether you want to go on the rides or not.
Last time I went to the pleasure Beach was 1987. Went on the big dipper and grand national. Loved it but I was usually skint so couldn't afford the rides for long.
@@ewilliams370 that's more like it, although until they tidy Blackpool up properly (back street's not just the seafront) and return the tower back to paying for entry, tower ride and circus, I can't see us going for a week (unless we do Rebellion Festival) Last three visits has been all day at BPB, quick walk on the beach, chip shop and home.
@@stevehadfield5963 ahh the Tower, used to love going, went regularly Stopped when they made everything much more expensive As a kid I used to loved going in Jungle Jim's than seeing the tower for the bit than going on Circus at the end of the day I think it was only like £15-20 or something for me and my mum to get in to do all that and it was only like 2010-12 (we had local discounts) and now it's more like £20 each just to get to the top of the Tower which is meh it's a 5min experience, though I don't think I've been since they've redid it and charged much higher prices, they've basically made top of the tower with see through floors Vs when there was only 1 section in the corner and decided to charge 3x if not more for entry Guessing they want people to buy these yearly Merlin Membership since that's what they seem to be encouraging
The Fun House in stockingfeet was the best amusement there, sadly destroyed by fire and not rebuilt. The monorail, Reel, Cable Cars, Log Flume and now the Wild Mouse have all gone.
Nice video Leroy will be nice to see Pleasure Beach reopen for the Public see the rides in use and days out we do use that back round behind the Pleasure Beach coming in or going home.
Just spotted some of the carriages from the monorail when you are on Bond Street. These are presumably the ones they have for sale. I'd love one of these for my garden.
Space invader the ride is no longer there, hasn't been for many years since the area was rethemed. the groundfloor area of the space invader building is the Big Pizza Kitchen. Upstairs is used for the "cast" which do the kids dance parties etc.
Hi Steven, good video i wish you could just walk in and look around the Pleasure Beach like you could years ago, it was really good when you could just do that 😏
@@karlbishop9670 yeah you used to cue and pay for each ride, or just go on the small amusement games etc. But people would just hog the best rides going on them over and over again, and others wouldn't even be able to afford the rides. From what I remember the last time I went, there was three different levels of payment giving a selection of A B C and D tickets the highest fee would give you more A's than D's So the ticket might be like A,A,B,B,B,C,D or A,B,B,C,D,D or B,B,C,C,D (just an example I made up to illustrate the concept)
@@zakiranderson722 i recall when the Big One opened required 2 A tickets. Really wish they still had the ticket system. They had no expiry date that i recall
I remember coming down from Newcastle in 1995 when I was 17 and going on the Pepsi Max. That first drop was something I'd never experienced in my life!!
Another great video, Stephen. I agree wholeheartedly about the Grand National being the best woodie... The Jack Rabbit at Kennywood comes a close second - and I’d definitely recommend combining that park with your next trip to Cedar Point 👍
My biggest upset was when they did introduce a charge to enter the Pleasure Beach. I'm not one for rides I never have been, but I used to love the experience of wandering around the Pleasure Beach and watching all the fun of others. The noises. The smells. The screaming. The looking after everyone's bags and belongings as they rode the rides and moreso, The people watching and the ambience of the whole park was great. I miss that. I won't pay the cost that is required just to be a spectator. I'd have no issues if I enjoyed and took part in the rides, but as said they're not for me.xx
being nearly 70 I was going to comment exactly the same as you, thanks for saving me the bother, not been in there since they introduced charging but I did like to see people enjoying themselves.
I am the exact same. I was never 1 for going on rides, just watching people enjoying themselves was enough for me. If I was ever going on a ride I wouldn't mind paying a couple of quid to get on but that was very seldom. I've never been on the big one and I don't know if I ever would. For me to pay to get in to the pleasure beach would be a complete waste of money.
56 now and i've always been a big fan of the rides since i was a little boy but i've not been on The Pleasure Beach since they introduced the entrance fee. I think i read that they introduced the charge to keep out the druggies and low-life's that had started to congregate in there. Whether that's had an effect or not i don't know but i still begrudge having to pay to go in.
@@markyjam1 that's exactly the reason... can you imagine what it would be like now if it were a free for all....all the scumbags , druggies , feral youths , beggars just hanging about....it can't be that way...the pleasure beach is a much safer environment now... school trips are allowed , that wouldn't be the case if it weren't gated....as for paying a tenner for non rider's , maybe they could chuck in a drinks voucher or summat aswell
Reading your comment and whilst your upset at the charge I'm not sure whether you agree with it? If not , let me Paint a wonderful picture of what it would be like if it were still a free for all..... junkies , scumbags , beggars , drunks , feral youths and gangs all hanging around.... sound good to you?? The charge HAS to be in place I'm afraid... don't you see that? The please beach is a much safer environment now than before , school trips wouldn't be allowed for a start if it were not secure and gated...the Tenner entrance fee has to stay , maybe chuck in a drinks voucher or summat aswell
Love seeing Blackpool when I was a teen thankyou Stephen for sharing your old photos with how Blackpool looks today
Wow love the history of Blackpool and all the old photography bring back so many memories for me so thankyou so much for putting a big smile on my face hope you and your family are all keeping safe and well
Love the then and now shots it's amazing how you can forget a place in a few short years and how it looked yesteryear. Look forward to seeing the place buzzing again. Jim & Liz.
Great.the old photos bring back lots of memories.😀
Yet another great video, love the ones on the Pleasure Beach and surrounding areas. Thanks!
Another top video Sir! Love the little bits of history and retro photos. Thank you!
Hi Stephen thank you for another great video as always very interesting regarding pleasure beach past and present nice to know of the history take care xx
Thanks Stephen, another great video. I remember taking the kids to the pleasure beach in the 90's & Bradley Walsh was the resident comedian at the show ( free entry with fairground pass ). Still go now ( both in our 60's ) but river caves & miniature train is highlight. Thanks again John d.😀😀👍
I worked "down the pleas" the Summers of 85 and 86. After the Laughing Man was turned off, it was 30 mins to closing I think, and then we used to leg it into The Star to get slaughtered. There was a resident band called "No Hard Feelings"...brilliant.
Another great video Stephen and the history look forward to the one of the roller coasters soon.
That brought back some memories! Thanks for that 😊
excellent informative video as always Steve ,look forward to your video on the history of the pleasure beach rides . 👍👍
Stayed in that new Boulevard Hotel just before the current lock down started. The illuminations were on and my partner had never seen them so we booked a room, when we arrived the rain was horizontal so we only managed to see a couple of coloured lights just outside our room window. Oh well a Blackpool trip that summed up 2020!
Great video Stephen, and very interesting, we always have a weekend at the big blue, cant beat it, hopefully be back there in the autumn
Great video Sir. I think I touched on the old and new photos when you had previously put these on. Fantastic to see how things were to how they are now! I’ve got two girls desperate to get up to the Pleasure Beach and Tower. It’s going to cost me a fortune with a overnight stay 🙈. Keep up the superb work sir.
I use to love the star pub. There was some great bands on. I love the old photo mix. Great memories 👌
Love Blackpool so much it's always been my favourite place to stay since I was 6yrs old and now 51 and Blackpool is my safe haven for when I need a break
Absolutely loved this video, so lovely to see and hearing your history of things was brilliant. Thanks for yet another great video Steve 👌❤
Hi Steven things have changed a fair bit over the years little by little like everywhere else still remember the old blackpool nice video 👍👍
Great video, remember it well . The old days . Can't believe I'm saying it now , how time flies. Interesting. Cheers
Excellent video love seeing the old photos compared to today, brings back great memories. The grand national is a great ride my favourite ride though was the log flume. Looked very eerie with it quiet and no one around. Can't wait for your next video on the history of the rides. Keep up your brilliant work.
So many memories of old days as kids. Going in the star pub, spending cash in the small amusement arcade opposite, walking along the wall before the big blue was built etc etc. Happy times.
Sounds boring
@@flamezodiac5736 Maybe so now, but not as a child.
Nothing beats walking along the top of a wall!!!!! And in real life too, not on a flipping computer screen!
Another very professional and informative vlog....
great video,love the old pics.Thank you brother xxx
Really enjoyed the video, and it was very interesting of the old photos of places and want they today . Stay safe.
I, too, remember when it was all open at the front and used to race the monorail as it passed overhead. I've had a look for some old pics, but no luck. I can even remember the log flume being built!
A whole lot of history in Blackpool. I love it..
It's a fascinating place for sure, like no other, despite the council and developers being so keen to bulldoze most of the history. I hope its fortunes improve and it can reinvent itself as something other than a place for druggies and beggars.
Smashing memories Stephen great video photos amazing cor ! Some great memories
I think with staycations happening thru the pandemic it's Guna be a great resort again! The good time will come back to Blackpool 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I visit Blackpool at least 3 times a year with the family since the late 70s. But not been in the pleasure beach since they started to charge for entry. Some people like myself are not interested in going on the rides they just like to walk round and have something to eat.
Unfortunately those days are long gone. I too preferred those days but I can see the business sense of charging to get in.
On our last 3 visits we have ONLY gone to the pleasure beach, the rest of Blackpool in our opinion is in a really bad state. And what they've done to the tower is disgraceful.
@@stevehadfield5963 agreed, today's Blackpool is the result of 50 years of shortsighted decisions by successive councils and developers who see only £ signs and have no regard for the town's history. The glory days are gone forever.
Another great video , nice bit of history about the pleasure beach.
Great vid and history stephen thanks 4 sharing
Great video love seeing old pics,
Thoroughly enjoyed your clip. Made me smile during UK lockdown, was nice to see a place with a lot of good memories without having to leave the house.
Brilliant video great what you did with the old pictures 🥰
omg i forgot about the log flume went on that as a kid you've brought some memories back thank you
An excellent video - full of historical content - very informative !
What an interesting video steve then and now, it was nice going back in time
I really appreciate your videos. I'm originally from Bolton but live in Calgary Canada. My auntie lived in Thornton and I used to visit her. All these areas around Blackpool you visit brings back fond memories of my youth in the 70s. Cheers..keep up the good work
Always fantastic that you know so much about the history of Blackpool, you actually do know the facts...unlike a certain other Blackpool vlogger on TH-cam who shall not be named ;-)
Ewww who are they?
Wait a sec I don't care
I been following you for while know, thank you for informing mate
Amazing video of the outskirts of the Pleasure Beach & your old photos , an unbelievable difference were The Star Pub used to be , I didn't know The Log Flume was gone , I loved a good soaking 💦 on that ride ... Would love to see a vlog on all the rides 🎢🎡🎠
Love your passion for the Area try get to blackpool from west london when i can great vid is the new tram line finished
Ghost town can't wait to visit when things get back to normal I got photos from when I visited back in the 80s as a boy always try to go back every couple of years love the place
I love Blackpool! Can't wait to get back
I first did it at the pleasure beach in the 1950s… Our family owned a few arcades there back in the day… used to work there on the weekend
Great vid, really enjoyed it. Thanks
Great video mate. We used to love the pleasure beach when our kids were small.
Year 2068, Pleasure beach abandoned and houses to be in place, i can see it happening to most theme parks around the world, they will disappear in the future. But is nice to see how it use to be. The star pub use to have live bands on which were great and the coasters restaurant was an American dinner and as you had you meal you sat in the seat of a waltzer ride seat. Spent many times in the pleasure beach wont be going again though as i have had my time on roller coasters.
I think a lot of the leisure industry is headed for this fate unfortunately. Kids nowadays can get more enjoyment from video games and social media than a wet week on the coast with mum and dad. Especially when VR really takes off, the real world (especially one beset by climate change, resource scarcity, authoritarian govt, economic collapse, and civil conflict) will seem rather crap by comparison to immersive open worlds where you can do and be anything you choose. I see little future for seaside resorts like Blackpool besides as warehousing for addicts and a new economic underclass. Bleak maybe but the most likely outcome.
@@rich_edwards79 Totally agree with you. It is sad too see that the generations of kids will lose so much in the future.
I remember the SHARK hanging outside the art deco building.
I remember when there were an entrance by the ice ring to go into the Pleasure beach x
That's the entrance we always went in because we always came via Watson Road.
Very interesting mate, enjoyed the tour
Love 💘Blackpool we visited Blackpool 2 times year but would pay prices in pleasure Beach years ago you could just walk around watching people on rides but now you have to pay .still fantastic video.
I used to love walking around the pleasure beach. I stopped going when they started charging, it wasn't worth it for the amount of rides I went on
Throughly enjoying your videos, keep it up!. Thank you.
Thanks. For another great video Stephen.🇬🇧🇬🇧
very interesting vlog ste cheers mate.
i remember going 2 the ice show with my mum and dad when my mum turned 60 it was her dream 2 go and we all enjoyed it its reaily interesting how times have changed thank you stephen another brilliant video we went 2 the ice show sometime in the 90s
They called it The Hot Ice Show in them days Julie Hargreaves my step sister was one of the star skaters there, I remember the beautiful programs they used to print for the show
Again well done very interesting 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Thanks for another great video I've had some good nights in the Star pub, really looking forward to seeing the one of the PB rides. Cheers.👍
Fantastic still from my hospital bed, NVS.
Great to see the old photographs of what it used to be compared to what it looks like now! :) It's important that videos like this exist so it can been seen how places change over the years - looking forward to seeing what it looks like in the next 10-20 years, I wonder how much it will change?
A very interesting video, thank you. I am sure in the 1990s at entrancevto South Pier they had a Coronation Street experience. A replica of the street you could walk down and a version of the Rovers, yet no one else seems to remember it. Anyone on here recall it ? Regards Gillian
I remember it. It is now the casino next door to the sandcastle
Loved it m8 got great childhood memories from back in the eighties blackpool was magical for a kid back then
Sandgrownen and a Seasider at heart but have sinced moved away, still a regular visitor though (pre covid) huge soft spot for the town :) but I must admit (although better recently through investment) the magic of Bpool has gone for me now :( my grandparents ran holiday flats and hotels including a hotel on the prom at one point and I will always have cherished childhood memories of blackpool.
brings back memories, I was there at a flighsim show in the white tower complex way back in 2004 & stayed in the gables balmoral hotel.
Can't wait to get back to Blackpool, missed the place through all these lockdowns.
Taken the long flume out and the water splash I loved them as a kid late 70ts early 80ts Brilliant place Nice one 🇬🇧✌️
Really enjoyed this thanks
Great video. Remember the open area at the front with Logflume ride. You'll find one of the Logflume cars in Watson Road Park being used as a flower bed.
Yes I saw that when I did a video on Watson Road, but I never got round to posting it.
Completely agree with your comment about charging to get into the Pleasure Beach - it's a far nicer place now and you can tell the money has been reinvested into the park. I understand people's objections but every other major theme park in the country charge an entrance fee regardless of whether you want to go on the rides or not.
Last time I went to the pleasure Beach was 1987. Went on the big dipper and grand national. Loved it but I was usually skint so couldn't afford the rides for long.
I went to the Coronation Street exhibition when it was next to the sand castle all those years ago
Yes so did I.😎
Is the exhibition still there? I've not been to Blackpool in about 20+ years
@@iansmith321 no its been gone a while now.
A good video that. Some thought gone in to it as all your videos do. Top marks
Excellent, thank you
I was going to ask you about the Pleasure Beach. Just downloading to view later.
Let’s hope it opens in April!
ASAP I want to start vlogging in Blackpool. Join the Kult! 👍
I've stayed at the big blue hotel twice, cost around £1000 for the week, miss Blackpool, usually escape to Blackpool from the busy city life.
Be more expensive now as they try and make up for lost time
£1,000? 🤯 Won't be staying there then!!!
@@stevehadfield5963 Craig y don...weeks b and b , 2 adults one child in July...£450... lovely hotel
@@ewilliams370 that's more like it, although until they tidy Blackpool up properly (back street's not just the seafront) and return the tower back to paying for entry, tower ride and circus, I can't see us going for a week (unless we do Rebellion Festival)
Last three visits has been all day at BPB, quick walk on the beach, chip shop and home.
@@stevehadfield5963 ahh the Tower, used to love going, went regularly
Stopped when they made everything much more expensive
As a kid I used to loved going in Jungle Jim's than seeing the tower for the bit than going on Circus at the end of the day
I think it was only like £15-20 or something for me and my mum to get in to do all that and it was only like 2010-12 (we had local discounts) and now it's more like £20 each just to get to the top of the Tower which is meh it's a 5min experience, though I don't think I've been since they've redid it and charged much higher prices, they've basically made top of the tower with see through floors Vs when there was only 1 section in the corner and decided to charge 3x if not more for entry
Guessing they want people to buy these yearly Merlin Membership since that's what they seem to be encouraging
The Fun House in stockingfeet was the best amusement there, sadly destroyed by fire and not rebuilt. The monorail, Reel, Cable Cars, Log Flume and now the Wild Mouse have all gone.
Had some great holidays there as a child.
The great smell of candy-floss as you go into the pleasure each 👍🏽
Nice video Leroy will be nice to see Pleasure Beach reopen for the Public see the rides in use and days out we do use that back round behind the Pleasure Beach coming in or going home.
Last went to Blackpool in 1999. Had many great times there. Did the Big One in 1996, awesome ride !
Just spotted some of the carriages from the monorail when you are on Bond Street. These are presumably the ones they have for sale. I'd love one of these for my garden.
Space invader the ride is no longer there, hasn't been for many years since the area was rethemed. the groundfloor area of the space invader building is the Big Pizza Kitchen. Upstairs is used for the "cast" which do the kids dance parties etc.
Space invader is now at brean leisure park.
Interesting video brings back the memories
I worked at Pontins in 1991 & Coasters was a great Bar.. I remember winning a "Drink a bottle of Red Stripe" in the shortest amount of time..
I have not been to the pleasure beach since I was a kid nice vlog😊
Great content as ever. Brought some memories back!
It’s so sad ..reminds me of Mary Black’s song. “Hard times come again no more”..
Love the old pictures xx
Hi Steven, good video i wish you could just walk in and look around the Pleasure Beach like you could years ago, it was really good when you could just do that 😏
Yeah a lot easier back then. All queuing now thay ruined it.
Where's the profit in that ??
@@moodyguymick I think you pay to get in and can ride on multiple things instead of individual payment
not sure tho.
@@karlbishop9670 yeah you used to cue and pay for each ride, or just go on the small amusement games etc. But people would just hog the best rides going on them over and over again, and others wouldn't even be able to afford the rides.
From what I remember the last time I went, there was three different levels of payment giving a selection of A B C and D tickets the highest fee would give you more A's than D's
So the ticket might be like
A,A,B,B,B,C,D or
A,B,B,C,D,D or
B,B,C,C,D
(just an example I made up to illustrate the concept)
@@zakiranderson722 i recall when the Big One opened required 2 A tickets. Really wish they still had the ticket system. They had no expiry date that i recall
I remember coming down from Newcastle in 1995 when I was 17 and going on the Pepsi Max. That first drop was something I'd never experienced in my life!!
I remember visiting back in 1991. There were just a few pylons in place, for what would eventually be The Big One, then. Great video.
Every time I see that Rollercoaster i think of simply Red who used that for their hit fairground
Hi Stephen love the then and now video
used to love to walk round the pleasure beach ,,but i won't pay to do that ,,any way thanks stephen for a another great video
Really enjoyed this! 👏🏼
Another great video, Stephen. I agree wholeheartedly about the Grand National being the best woodie... The Jack Rabbit at Kennywood comes a close second - and I’d definitely recommend combining that park with your next trip to Cedar Point 👍
missing that on a weekend stephen