Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 1978
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Our Visit to Blackpool in 1977 & 1978.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach commonly referred to as Pleasure Beach Resort or simply Pleasure Beach is an amusement park situated along the Fylde coast in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. The park was founded in 1896 and has been owned and operated by the Thompson family since its inception. It is one of the most visited tourist attractions in the United Kingdom, and one of the top twenty most visited amusement parks in the world, with a peak estimate of 5.5 million visitors in 2007. In 2014 it was voted as the best theme park in the United Kingdom and the ninth best park in Europe by the Travelers' Choice Awards.
Life was so much better back then and Blackpool was amazing😍🇬🇧
It sure was 😊
Lovely to watch, I miss the 70s
Those were the days and we never even knew it. Life as we know it today is just a dull impersonation of what it once was. We have our memories though. Beautiful footage.
I totally agree ! who ever is managing the Pleasure Beach has no love of rides ! they also closed Southport, The times on the Pleasure Beach and at the Discos with my peer group Blackpool hey days ! So sad things have changed for the worse ! And looks like England!
That really explains it in a nutshell.
Amanda tompson dose the iceshrink she always did ecen wen jeff was running it nicks toke over part of the park side but hes no lover of rides. Bpb still is gd the scare fest was a brillent idea never been there b4. But nothing will beat old time of wen jeffory run it or when keith was manger of park old times will live on in our memorys
You're having a laugh right? So the constant maintenance of Britain's and the one of the world's oldest coasters, the big one and it's retracking, the new Mack multi-launch ICON? The refurbished plaza and valhalla? Cheap food prices compared to other parks? And on the price I totally agree with the pay before entry system. Every other major park in the UK also uses this system and Blackpool is one of the best value parks too. Plus this system keeps security in better standing and has a higher chance of keeping people who just wanna cause trouble out
@@purplesunflower8242 and frontierland in morecambe when i was 9 or 10yrs old they had the biggest wheel in Europe then they sold it to an amusement park in America it was great going in funhouse and the mousetrap i remember standing on my tiptoes to be same hight as entry level to get on it brilliant times and memories🙏👍🎡🎠🎢🎪🕊🌷⚘😪😢
Thank you for sharing this incredible footage. I grew up in St Annes and my parents would often take me to the Pleasure Beach. My late Father would accompany me on any ride I wanted to go on, he was a good sport. Seeing these images is almost like being given the opportunity to travel back in time because they are so personal to me. I have vivid memories of the Pleasure Beach but this footage has brought back so many additional memories. Seeing this, almost all of the sights and sounds (and even smells!) have been brought back to me.
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Blackpool was great back in the day,but sadly those days will never come back.
So true the world and society is screwed greed and poor behaviour related to bad politics etc etc I hate the world we are in sorry for being so honest lol x
Back when England was English.
I remember as a kid going to day trips to Blackpool during the summer holidays in 1970s and 80s ......loved it ,..my parents never had a lot of money during my childhood, but day trips to the seaside like Blackpool and Rhyl were real treats, and I now realize how golden those times really were
I am a 12 year old lad who wears tracksuits day after day but its nice to see people wearing normal clothes not once i see a young boy in baggy clothes i really enjoyed this video thank you so much for sharing
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What a fantastic film , brings back so many family memories of Blackpool holidays in th 1970s. A pleasure to watch a family having lots of time together on a day out
Glad you enjoyed it.
Aww bless that girl in the video can watch this and look back at her grandad and mum and dad as young adults
I bet she is watching it now with her grandchildren 😊 ❤
@@HolyFreakinDragonSlayer good chance the old guys dead so be wonderful to have such a amazing video to watch
@@kane211 good chance? Unless he's one of the world's oldest people!
How old was he
If she was 25 then let’s say then she’d be 68 now
When I see this, I'm grateful that I lived through that time and earlier (1950s and 1960s). It was a totally different world and it's regretful that there has been so much change.
yes, change is not all its cracked up to be....
@blackzed 👍👍👍👍👍
I'm with you on this one 👍
i totally agree! even more since the pandemic.😫
This footage is gold to me and must be gold to the family, this is exactly how I remember The Pleasure Beach. Amazing footage, thanks for sharing.
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I'd say I enjoyed it alright. Brought back many many memories of summer holidays and day trips from the early 80's. If I could just walk through here one more time with my Grandparents and my Father... Again, thank you.
@classic camper My ex wife her brother and family and Father in law
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Happiest days of my life were spent at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the late 70's and early 80's. It was mind blowing for a kid, thanks for this amazing footage, all my memories come flooding back.
Remember going on the revolution ride when it was introduced in 1980.
I can hear the laughing guy in the kiosk in the background... Lots of memories as a kid going here at the same time as this video
And yet over 40 years later that laughing man is still going.
Me too
Laughing policeman
I wonder whose voice they used 🤔
Superb film. Many thanks for posting. Better times!!
A nice family enjoying time together.
*AND THATS THE PLEASURE BEACH WE ALL LOVED*
And now you have to pay just to go in and take a stroll down memory lane. Ridiculous!
Yes and its still crap today
Fantastic times its all gone now 😭
@@johnroberts8233 you have to pay to go in all theme parks you pathetic man
@@johnroberts8233 it’s a theme park which is a business, it’s not there for your memory lane free of charge
A lot of people stopped going on the pleasure beach when they started to charge an entrance fee, I'm 61 and have great memories going to Blackpool with my mates and girlfriends, the woman on this video was classed as a real fit bird back then, nice flairs, big hair, where were the kiss me quick hats.
I went to Blackpool to see a play in 2010. In the afternoon I went up to the Pleasure Beach just to walk round and look. I was told I had to buy an armband for £20 just to get in, and sadly had to give up on my plan.
That Redhead is a Fox!
Yes paying a fee to walk around is robbery.. 63! And remember the hey day of the pleasure Beech more laughter! Then!
She sure is attractive and exactly how I remember the girls looking back then. I was 21 in 1978, so remember it well. Great times indeed!!
Awww what a fabulous trip down memory lane, i was 18 great fun times in sunny Blackpool 🎉 ty for staring 🎉
I was born in this year, was in the blue version of the buggy and my parents started taking me to Blackpool in 1981, I was really lucky to go so many times and I still go regularly today.
cheap and cheerful before modern life stepped in, it was affordable, even the fish and chips were nicer, great footage
Thank you, yes great times.
I prefer it now icon is the best
@i i years off i am 15 near 16 and I'm also coaster enthusiast and i only listen to gorillaz alot and what the f is drill music
Blackpool was never cheap.You could spend a fortune on holiday there.
i remember going to Blackpool with my family when i was eight..30 yrs later i live in Blackpool and just love this place.
I was there in August 1978 with my girlfriend at the time I was only eighteen, jeez where’s the years gone, happy times.
A time when England was enjoyable
Thank you for this dear memory sad as it is to watch a wonderful time gone by
You're very welcome
Brilliant footage from much better times.
Thank you Jackie, yes good times.
what a brill movie , loved seeing the place the rides and the prices (yes we did spot the 20p ride) the clothes etc took us back to our youth well done
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This is brilliant. It's like watching a weird cheese dream of my hazy memories of the 70s.
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G Narly 5 counties?
G Narly I remember going to Blackpool in the early 70s and sitting in a leaky tram where someone had put a sticking plaster on the roof 😂 , I remember the fun and the lights , great , happy home movie .
I've travelled the world due to my job and luckily have had amazing holidays.But when i see this it excites me more than anywhere i've been.We used to holiday in Blackpool in the late 70s early 80s every july for 2 weeks.When you could see the tower in the distance as you drove nearer it just filled you with joy.I used to love the Funhouse at the Pleasure Beach so to see this on here is fantastic.Thanks for sharing this happy history!.
What a fantastic time capsule. How lucky to have a video recorder in the 70's.
Glad you enjoyed my movie, not video but shot on Super 8 film.
A trip to Blackpool was like wining the lottery when we were kids. I still have my certificate for being the first 500 on the revolution. The B&Bs were clean, warm, affordable and did great full English breakfasts. Make Blackpool great again!
It's getting better I think
Why would you want your accommodation to be warm when it is boiling in summer? You’d want it to be cool and fresh
@@handsoffmycactus2958it’s rarely warm in Blackpool
Thankyou really liked watching this delightful footage, i have shown it to my teenage daughter who thought it was funny as people were screaming on some of the family rides , nothing like the thrill rides today,. No wifi either, nobody standing around on their phones either!!😊😊
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I loved Blackpool when I was younger (now 61) and I went to the pleasure beach many times. I even have a caravan in Blackpool now which I go to every weekend.
But then they brought in this ridiculous idea of charging EVERYBODY to get in (EVEN IF YOU WASN'T GOING ON THE RIDES) which we don't at our age, but the kids and grandkids would.
BUT WE HAVEN'T BEEN THERE SINCE THEY STARTED THAT many many years ago.
I wrote to them saying that they would be making MORE money as my wife and I would be playing the arcades ETC whilst the kids were doing the rides, and also, making the money on the cafes and restaurants as we would ALL be eating and drinking. But they replied saying the '''board of directors''' on their £110k+ annual pay, thought it was better to charge people entering and that was the way to go. (that is them on their £100k+ that think it is a reasonable price to pay), but they don't live in the real world where it is almost a weeks wages for some to go in there for one day for a family.
So it hasn't changed, and I haven't been in now for many years.
So they have lost all my money and others like me. PITY REALLY.
Same here not been in since they charge. Like you I would spend money in the food and drink shops go on the odd ride of my choosing.
Neither have I
Yeah I still live near the Pleasure Beach and I used to enjoy walking through the place every so often but since they made you pay to enter, I've never been back. The amusing thing is, by me walking around or through, I'd always spend some money on arcade machines or food/drink. but now they've lost that.
Colin Parry - Droflas totally
It's a system that actually makes the park much safer. It discourages people who are looking to cause trouble since they have to pay to get in which has reduced crime within the pleasure beach. It also means that children can't just wander out of the park into Blackpool which has allowed school trips to visit the park since the children can't leave without a teacher. This increase in revenue from other groups of people is far greater than the likes of your few 10p's going into the slot machines. Personally, I prefer the safer, less crowded park as it is today.
wow, that brings back memories. i worked there in 1978 (15 years old). thanks for sharing.
Beautiful, a world before social media where people had real communication and real relationships
Correct 100%
Ok boomers
@sam mark 👌👍👏well said brilliant comment🇬🇧🏴🎡🎢🎪🎠
Why do people always talk like there’s no way we can still have real communication and relationships? It’s all a matter of choice, you know! You chose to give your kids mobile phones, so deal with it.
thanks for posting this , i miss simplier ways of life....
Yes it was, Glad that you enjoyed my home movie.
There are some priceless family memories right there! Very nostalgic for me age 47...
Although I wasn't born until the 90s, it was nice to see parts of the park that were part of my childhood in the late 90s/early 00s that are no longer there
Loved The Monster when I used to go in my childhood.
Great video, simpler times - definitely, better times - probably.
The child in the push chair is now around 42/43 years old...sobering thought...
I was there in 1978, and I was only 3.
I was 6yr old then but my memories are from frontier land in morecambe as my mothers partner gerry had his barbers shop there near the battery its gone now the fairground at morecambe building houses on the old site now was brilliant as a kid i remember goin to the hot ice skating as a 15yr old as i was in fylde farm approved school back in 1987-88
@Martay Artay Art Works haha iam 47yr old now its great in it😀👌
I,m 47 now , doesn't time fly.
@@matthewbritton4149 Well I am 54 years old and it appears I was older than all of you in push chairs lol
I remember the ride that you showed at the start of the video the octopus, been on it many times years ago, nothing like it use to be Blackpool
Loved it went holidays down there every year when a was a kid in the eighties it was buzzing
The Canadian Monster....
Great footage of a forgotten time.how times have changed in every way. Some spot on comments below a time when people were happy and made do with what they had.take me back to them days anytime.
Thank you so much for posting this. My late father and I went on holiday to Blackpool every year. Sad thing is it's much the same price to take my Grandson's to Euro Disney for few days than Blackpool for a week!
Lovely memories of my Dad before Dementia robbed him from me. 🐾xx
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Thank you this has brought back so many wonderful memories my mum loved Blackpool I live in Fleetwood now Blackpool is nothing now compared to when we were kids
I so glad that you enjoyed my home movie, much better times.
The 1970's Power cuts, the 3 day week, dodgy fashion and it was still better than the sh** we have today.
At least we were free no Coronavirus hanging around like a bad Chinese takeaway.
The pleasure and security of an indigenous country , memories .
Went in the Summer..with my daughter She's 31 and I'm 66..Loved it. Can't beat a good laugh
Brilliant footage the days when the family british holiday was good fun !
Great footage from back in the day ! Thank you for sharing this .
Its a tragic illusion that many perceive that as we move "forward" through time that we are somehow evolving/progressing ...so sad 🥺
Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed my home movie, yes it is sad what's happening these days.
Awesome, bringing back wonderful memories of days out in Blackpool in the late 70's to mid 80's with my best friend Dave his wife Carol and my lovely wife Denise... thank you for sharing
I'm glad you enjoyed it.
That laughing clown scared the life outta me as a kid lol
There having such a good time I love it take me back!!!!! 😫
Wow!! That took me back a bit. 20p to go on the Wild Mouse. I was 18. Used to go to Blackpool regularly. Life was much better back then. Fantastic footage.
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The grand national. A right old scary bone shaker
Still going today as well
You get strapped in today. Was very dangerous back then.
Especially on the back seat, used to very nearly get thrown out, really hurt my back on it once.
I genuinely thought I was having a heart attack on that ride. I was only around 22 but the pain in my chest on that deathtrap was excruciating.
Great to see my year of birth captured so innocently on film . I remember being pushed around in the blue version of the blonde baby's buggy !
Remember that week so well, camping with two mates Dave & Scotty, still got the photo of the three of us on that bench 1st sept 1978. Double denim,sunshine and drinking legally for the first time. Terry Wogan did the illuminations switch on. Thanks for the post, happy days !
Always remember the octopus was the first ride you saw walking in ❤..I also remember playing the game that young guy was playing it was shooting down planes and the volume was always full blast and you could swivel the chair from side to side, haha, great memories
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This is a great video. It was so much better during the 70's / 80's ! xx
Thank you, I haven't been back since I shot this!
OMG The Octopus! Used to love that!
The ride was not called the Octopus it was called THE MONSTER and it came from Expo 67 in Canada.
My first visit to Blackpool was 2 weeks after this was filmed. Brings back the best memories
I went on the infamous ‘ Mouse ‘ didn’t feel safe at all ! It moved around so much ! Felt as if it was going to come of the rails on the corners !
OMG That was amazing, absolutely brilliant , life was great then everyone was much happier no stress no mobile phones ect, I had many a bruise from that wild mouse lol and spent many an hour in the fun house . Great times happy days thank you for the memories. Rob in Dundee.
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I have a pic of my Dad stood under the giant statue ... and pics of my sister on my Dads shoulders and me and my brother walking beside ..... My Dad in the ground now ... I’d love to go back in time to these days as an adult and say .... “hey Dad wanna go for a pint” he will be like who is this guy? I will be like .......... I’m your son and I miss you so much it kills me everyday let’s just go for a pint 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Great. Took me right back. Thanks.
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awesome. thanks for the memories ❤👌
Great memories on video,this is the pleasure beach I fondly remember,sad to see so many rides that no longer exist, unfortunately the wild mouse has recently now joined them as well.
leefran71 It’s good wild mouse is gone.
I remember the wild mouse. It was terrifying!
Danielle Dewitt nah I had tons of memories on that ride yes it was a bone shaker but there’s the fun
I loved the Wild Mouse, but I'm amazed it lasted as long as it did.
Hey look!!! No mobile phones 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Blue Lady ok boomer
Gary Pendleton okay, Gary.
What people actually talking that would be fantastic, I just ban the use of phones when anybody come in the door, if you visit someone I mean what's the point if u just play games or whatever on it, it's not just young people. Soon people living together will be texting what do you fancy for dinner or would you like a coffee or tea. OMG give the phones and yourself a break. I personally believe the art of conversation is dying. 🤔
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@@Kettyvw shut up stuipd you must be one of the young disrespectful ungrateful idiots this world has now got , God help us all
Ahh yes i remember it well.
Before you know who showed up....
Yep we all know who you mean and all agree, ship them out.
Lots of people with happy faces
What a find this was! So many memories packed into this gem. Thank you!
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Great nostalgic trip down memory lane of the Blackpool that was the fair in its prime and the lights too and a time when britain was Britain a much happier simpler time pre internet and before political interference and PC drove us all mad- gem of a video.
My first holidays as a kid were to blackpool. Went three years in a row in 81, 82 and 83. We used to get the train down from glasgow and stay in a B&B. As a young kid the pleasure beach was brillant fun. I came back down in july of this year with my 5 year old daughter and she loved it. I went on the alice in wonderland ride for the first time in 36 years and the memories came flooding back.
Yes had some great hols myself both young with parents and then with mates in late 80s lots fab memories there I generally pop down twice a year to reminisce etc and see the lights or take in a Blackpool fc game.
@@colincarroll5953 even though its a bit rough around the edges in places (can say that about most towns and cities) you can see that blackpool is still putting on a show for visitors. Its only 3 hours away in the car so will defo be back at some point.
As a disabled person I'd like to say that the Internet is a big help to me. Apart from that, there was a wonderful atmosphere in Blackpool in the sixties and seventies.
@@anniespencer7879 That's great that it's a big help to you we all need the internet for something its necessary to have it in modern life I use it alot but the point I'm making is we did get by without it in more genteel times and had more time for eachother but times change I guess .There is good and bad on internet the bad being the scams the organised crime and the sexual predators etc the good being the apps which give us easy access to world news sport friends you tube ebay etc so it does have great benefits too.
The first time I went to Blackpool was in 1977 with me, my parents and one of my brothers (the other one wasn't born until 1978). We took a National Express coach (neither of my parents could drive and probably couldn't afford a car anyway) from Bradford for the day. We didn't go to the Pleasure Beach but we did go inside the Tower building. My mum still has the black & white photos she took on the Halina camera which took the 126 films. I'd love to go back in time and take my GoPro with me. It would make for fantastic footage. In 1984 I went to the Pleasure Beach for the first time and I remember the laughing clown. I said something inappropriate about it and got into trouble for it. My mum still has the colour photos of that particular visit as well somewhere. The last time I went to the Pleasure Beach, it was like going through airport security with the metal scanners and X-ray machines.
Brilliant!
remember the fun house. omg health and safety would never allow that place a licence now 😂
Speaking of safety, it burnt to the ground
Yeah - get a backdated claim in. Lol
Yeah the fun house was my favourite as a kid
We were a people and a country once.
Came here in 77 as a 10 year old boy, now 52 Great memories 😁
Brings back lovely memories. We had our 2 weeks holidays in Blackpool every year in late sixties to seventies. Great times. Thank you for posting this film.
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Yes the clown laughing in the kiosk as you walked in the entrance, scared me to death when I was a small lad , and 20p for a ride...wow
I'm Justin Peters, and I've enjoyed watching this video of Blackpool Pleasure Beach in 1978. Many amusements still remain, the Big Dipper, Roller Coaster, Grand National, Wild Mouse rides. Also the Gold Mine, horses, river caves, dodgems. Others are long gone like the octopus, cable cars, and I don't remember the Reel, and when that ceased. Also the Log Flume and Monorail are no more. I've heard of the Jack and Jill slide, before I was born, and I remember the Funhouse that was a stockingfeet amusement sadly burned down in 1991. The Revolution would be introduced the following year, 1979. Certainly no Pepsi Big Max rollercoaster then!
HJP1 HJP2 Roller coaster is nickalodeon streak now, horses on large carousel is derby racer or should I say derby loser, gold mine is replaced with wallace and grommit thrill o matic I mean bore o matic, river caves is still there, big log flume is gone, infusion is there now, though now we have a dark water ride near flying machines called valhalla and zipper dipper is now blue flyer.
Blue 13 No you didn’t take you’re dog on it because dogs are not allowed on blackpool pleasure beach, unless they are guide dogs/assistance dogs,even then no dogs allowed on rides.
Blue 13 No you didn’t you liar, you’re soul is getting blacker and blacker.
Blue 13 I’m 33 years old. The more you lie the blacker your soul gets.
Blue 13 Well I don’t. Unlike you.
Many thanks for sharing this video.Couldn't beleive at 4minutes 24seconds in was my late father George Gibson.He started working on the beach in 1950 for the Taylor family before he got his own stalls.The Pleasure Beach was his life even after he retired you could still find down on the Pleasure Beach.For me so many happy memories.A greeting.
I'm so pleased that you found this footage of your father.
What a wonderful find for you
Love Blackpool
Nice to see old videos. I was born in 79 and I’m 40 now
Aww so good ..went in 86 and went on the rickety roller coaster ..most rides .It was a great day..and yes noticed no phones..great days..and
Fabulous footage, good times before mobiles and extortionate prices to get in anywhere..... lovely film, thank you for sharing it. X
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Lol i was seven just brought back fantastic memories absolutely brilliant thank you for sharing
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When Blackpool was fun for the family and the Pleasure was fun for all under Doris and Jeffrey Thompson. I worked in the big restaurant and I used to wait for that clown to turn off and I knew it was getting near closing time. Brilliant footage and treasured memories x
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Thankyou so much for sharing this lol brilliant
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I still go to Blackpool a lot till this day my friends and I love it there, still a few of the old rides in the pleasure beach even the laughing clowns from the fun house its round the back of it now still laughing away, lights are as always great mind you some of them are adverts now. The prom is all cleaned up and looking great with lovely new state of the art trams. People are coming back again to Blackpool yes things have changed a bit but still something for everyone there.
Fantastic footage. Brought back so many memories when I was a young one. Especially now its lockdown everywhere with the COVID-19 virus. I gotta go back when this ia all over.
Looks like the family being filmed had a great time there. We went there by coach in 78. I was 10 years old at the time.
Thankyou for this lovely film I got a little bit teary Blackpool was our day out we got the sharra which was a coach outside our local shop and the whole street use to go together we never had a holiday so Blackpool was our magic day it’s a great film thanks for sharing it ❤️
Glad you enjoyed it.
I was in that year of 1978 in Blackpool and have a great time during those days..
Mum and Dad took our family there on holiday, in 1978.... I remember the doctor who exhibition very well
I went on that wild mouse and it was savage.. At one point you felt as though you were coming off the track.
Who would have thought that the entire world would be able to see this footage one day 🥳 it’s just incredible …I was trying to spot myself aged 9 then but didn’t 😂 Thanks for sharing, I LOVE BLACKPOOL …When we go now, it’s to a stunning air b n b a street from the front…ice skating, the zoo and a bike ride n back to Fleetwood along the stunning front ✝️😇🌷🌹❤️🦋🌈🥰😍😘
It's changed a great deal since this was shot. I was 10 when this was shot, and I remember everything in this video as is it was yesterday.
it’s wierd seeing blackpool pleasure beach without The Big One, Revelotion, and Icon.
brilliant film... many fantastic memories thank you.
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Lovely everyone happy smiley faces no mobile fones I was 18 then life was great love it
4:09 the original laughing man that was infront of the funhouse. He was later rebuilt after the fire and is now near the Avalanche still laughing and scaring everyone all day 😂
Interesting.
Those were the days my friend...God! My birthday today 56!!!!...I feel SO old!got this phone for xmas...So i hung on to the old days longer than most!!Cant work it very well.....!🌷
1978 I was 22 years old and just starting on the buses , now 42 years later still there and only two years from retirement :)
Why wait go now
@@bluenose007 Pensions that I have got are not good enough for early retirement mate :(