Just remembered we used to sneak in through the exit wooden turnstiles (if you were skinny ) so many happy memories ,never ate all day just used to drink water out of the toilet taps ,, most kids were poor back then ,which made for the best friends in the best times , LOVED IT .
I so remember this place from the 80's used to go down for September and spend all sunday evening. would go to PB with a fiver in my pocket, go on the "whiteknuckle" rides then save my last 50p to get into the funhouse and spend the rest of the evening in there, up n down the chutes god knows how many tines but you had to be sure you wore tracky bottoms or you would stick to the wood and ALWAYS wear a long sleeve top or the friction burns would be a nightmare especially on the spinning disk and barrel roll under the chute. Thanks for the vid... If it hadn't burnt down it would have been closed by the safety Nazi's years ago, personaly I loved the place and have loads of childhood memories from it.
OMG thanks for this video did not know any footage from the old funhouse existed ! we as a big family used to spend hours in there in the early 80s wos cheaper than paying to go on the rides on the pleasure beach,YES to the young ones today this was before wristbands,the best was the spinning wooden wheel it was hard to stay in the middle i could watch these old vids all day this is when blackpool was great !!
I loved this place. Spent so much time in there the old dear in the payment booth used to let me go home for dinner at 5 then let me skip the turnstyle on my return that evening. Juke box up at the back next to the spinning wheel, Boxer Beat, Paul Young Wherever I Lay My hat and Cyndi Lauper's Time after Time seemed to be on a continuous loop. Great fun, I remember a gang of us who became fortnight friends playing 1 man hunt in there with Big Joe the skinhead from Harthill Scotland(Nutty Boys on the back of his Harrington) What a laugh, scrambling down a cargo net with only a row of Space Invader machines to break your fall.
I particularly remember the wooden slides. To an 8 year old, that vertical drop looked terrifying, but I still threw myself down it. That, and the moving staircase and barrel walk. Southport pleasureland had a decent fun house, and New Brighton had one, that I'm sure had a creepy old guy running it. But as you say, health and safety rules, would of closed this place down, or make you sign a waiver, for any excessive fun you had.
I remember the gallery where you could walk to the big front window and look out. ..then to the vertical drop slide (very scary! ). I must have drank gallons of the cheap orange squash in there (in summer it got really hot running from one gravity spinner to another, was the squash 5p a pint? ).
Thanks for sharing! I remember this, the entrance was like an obstacle course (my mum hated it), but once you got inside, I remember we all chilled, there were plenty of seats, arcade machines and those rides that would never pass heath and safety these days! Was there circular robots thingies that ran around, or am I dreaming? Was there a cafe in the there too?
Only went there once, on holiday, but we spent half the day there. Brilliant! More footage would be nice. Besides the big rotating barrel thing, which I couldn't even stand up in! Were there several of those centrifugal spinner things in operation at once, or is the video from different times? I KNOW there was more stuff than that there, but buggered if I can remember.
Found a page on the blackpool gazzete showing During and the aftermath of the fire, www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/a-big-bang-then-a-ball-of-fire-1-8293723
Just remembered we used to sneak in through the exit wooden turnstiles (if you were skinny ) so many happy memories ,never ate all day just used to drink water out of the toilet taps ,, most kids were poor back then ,which made for the best friends in the best times , LOVED IT .
I so remember this place from the 80's used to go down for September and spend all sunday evening. would go to PB with a fiver in my pocket, go on the "whiteknuckle" rides then save my last 50p to get into the funhouse and spend the rest of the evening in there, up n down the chutes god knows how many tines but you had to be sure you wore tracky bottoms or you would stick to the wood and ALWAYS wear a long sleeve top or the friction burns would be a nightmare especially on the spinning disk and barrel roll under the chute. Thanks for the vid...
If it hadn't burnt down it would have been closed by the safety Nazi's years ago, personaly I loved the place and have loads of childhood memories from it.
I wish I could go back to how life was then.
OMG thanks for this video did not know any footage from the old funhouse existed ! we as a big family used to spend hours in there in the early 80s wos cheaper than paying to go on the rides on the pleasure beach,YES to the young ones today this was before wristbands,the best was the spinning wooden wheel it was hard to stay in the middle i could watch these old vids all day this is when blackpool was great !!
I loved this place. Spent so much time in there the old dear in the payment booth used to let me go home for dinner at 5 then let me skip the turnstyle on my return that evening. Juke box up at the back next to the spinning wheel, Boxer Beat, Paul Young Wherever I Lay My hat and Cyndi Lauper's Time after Time seemed to be on a continuous loop. Great fun, I remember a gang of us who became fortnight friends playing 1 man hunt in there with Big Joe the skinhead from Harthill Scotland(Nutty Boys on the back of his Harrington) What a laugh, scrambling down a cargo net with only a row of Space Invader machines to break your fall.
I particularly remember the wooden slides. To an 8 year old, that vertical drop looked terrifying, but I still threw myself down it. That, and the moving staircase and barrel walk.
Southport pleasureland had a decent fun house, and New Brighton had one, that I'm sure had a creepy old guy running it.
But as you say, health and safety rules, would of closed this place down, or make you sign a waiver, for any excessive fun you had.
I remember the gallery where you could walk to the big front window and look out. ..then to the vertical drop slide (very scary! ).
I must have drank gallons of the cheap orange squash in there (in summer it got really hot running from one gravity spinner to another, was the squash 5p a pint? ).
The music makes me laugh! 😂
Tin can alley ,, you used to run through it and the metal floor moved ,, awesome i was gutted when it burned down .
Fantastic footage.
Thanks for sharing! I remember this, the entrance was like an obstacle course (my mum hated it), but once you got inside, I remember we all chilled, there were plenty of seats, arcade machines and those rides that would never pass heath and safety these days! Was there circular robots thingies that ran around, or am I dreaming? Was there a cafe in the there too?
Only went there once, on holiday, but we spent half the day there. Brilliant! More footage would be nice. Besides the big rotating barrel thing, which I couldn't even stand up in! Were there several of those centrifugal spinner things in operation at once, or is the video from different times? I KNOW there was more stuff than that there, but buggered if I can remember.
My girlfriend and I wish the Funhouse was still here. So exciting on the big slide, barrel, bowl and spinning disc in our dirty smelly stockingfeet.
Great used to love this place
It was a great place to spend a rainy afternoon. The Health & Safety police would have shut it down in the blink of an eye !!
the fact that this got set on fire
Found a page on the blackpool gazzete showing During and the aftermath of the fire, www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/a-big-bang-then-a-ball-of-fire-1-8293723
The valhalla now