Day Trip to Skegness 1986
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- Опубліковано 17 лис 2024
- Had this old video lying around for years, so I uploaded it more for reasons of history really, things change over the years.
Starring the unhinged duo Eric and Mr Webber, we start coming by train from Grantham to Skeggy. Then we go straight to the rides at Botton Bros Pleasure Park taking the camera on board (risky then as they were quite big things). Some wandering about at the beach, some pleasure boat rowing, a cash machine of the period then eventually back on board the train taking in aspects of Boston en route back home.
This is memory gold for me, went every year during the 80's with my grandparents. Thanks for video, priceless 👍
Haven't been to Skeggy for years. But I'm back as a 11 year old right now. My uncle had a caravan on Stows Manor Farm near butlins...Loads of memories in Skeg... Fantastic video, thanks for sharing!
I am glad you uploaded this for historical reasons as it has given us some visual memories of how it was back in the 80,s. I was their in 1989-1991. By the way the video footage is of brilliant quality and preserved very well for its age from a home movie. Thank you.
Oh my word. The best thing I’ve seen for years. Brought back the best memories or Skeggy. We went every year from my memory I was born 1974. Took my daughter back for the same memories she still looks back on it fondly xxx
Thanks so much for sharing. Brought back so many memories of going to Skeggy in the 80's with my nana.
I was 10 years old when this video was done, my parents lived near Skegness a still do so it brings back happy memories.
Has brought back some lovely memories for me. Thank you for uploading.
Skeg has changed loads and not at all. The pleasure beach is still almost the same. I was there in 1986, 88, 90 and 91 and many times since. Tha ks :)
I used to go when I was a kid and the rides were excellent (well I used to love watching people on them). Many thanks for sharing this video!
It was about 30 years ago
The video! It was done in 1986.
Great video :-) I'm so pleased I found it :-) I used to go Skeg for day trips all the time as a kid and it's great to see just how much it has changed over the years :-) Thank you so much for sharing your memories x
Your video just brought back so many memories, Skeggy wasn't much different in the late 80s-early 90s thanks for that
Brilliant and ty for sharing takes me back as a young man about 14 taking the old escort jammed in the back seat lol
I used to love pretending to driving the cars around the track it used to be located to the right of the funfair it was on tracks and used to go around
We stayed in mablethorpe as we had a caravan there wow those where the days
Ty again for bringing the good times back xx
Same, I'd completely forgotten about the car track till I watched this last night, by the time I moved their in 97 it had gone, I worked on the dodgems seen here for a bit. I remember being on the little boats too as I nipper in the early 80s, brought some good memories back
Fab footage, thanks for uploading. Happy days.
This brings back some childhood memories
God this brings back memories, I grew up near Skeg.
great vid of how it looked when i was born.. cant believe the price of the donuts 😋 55p for 4!! i paid £2 for 4 yesterday.. i must say still worth the £2.
nice touch that they have the vintage fair their at the minute next to the big car park at the beach if you'd like to reminisce on the helter skelter
Fabulous video, in a decade when I used to go on holiday every year there , I was thrilled to finally see an image on the old ghost train under the pier, which many of my friends say I exaggerated that it existed , any ideas when that ride closed down?
great video loved skeggy back then
Bottons pleasure beach has changed loads :o nice to see how it was back then
It's somewhat gotten smaller in the recent years, but it will seem big again when the Freak Out arrives next year.
I wonder what happened to the Zyclon roller coaster. I have a vivid memory of seeing it in around 1988 but I'd have been about 4 years old!
I remember that blue ride at the end of the pier..called the enterprise if i recall..
hah Boston still hasn't changed in looks just the bloody people lol. loved this vid nice to see how skegvegas used be, i was too young to remember what it looked liked thanx for the vid
fantastic video.
happy days , good memories
excellent just how i remember it
Used to go to Skegness every year in the 70s and 80s as a kid. I think the last time I went was around 1986. Watchin this doesn't want to make me go back to be honest!
Thanks for the memories....good times. Plz does anyone know what Spaceship was called on the pier.
The Starwheel was the spinning ride.
We used to nickname it the "Blue Boots"
The Rocket next to it was the Space Simulator.
There was a "Disco Bounce" indoor bouncy castle next to it too that had flashing disco lights and music inside.
Shame some ff them rides. Aren’t still there, a enterprise on the pier is mad
Cool video pal :)
If this is the Skegness Pleasure Beach in the 1980's, then this Roller Coaster must be the Zyclon before it got replaced by the Storm in 1991. Of course, things have changed again and the Rockin Roller replaced the Storm in 2006 and it's still there today.
It is i work on it
Mad mouse was early 1980 still there then that's were the Queen bee ride is now
looks like you guys was having lost of fun lol
Who remembers the Wheel Of Death & the Fun House ? Wall of death long gone, but the fun house still stands but permanently closed. Bloody brilliant times in the 1980's. Just out of interest I think most Donut sellers are still using the same fat for today's donuts...PMSL.
Remember the steep slide in the fun house. Terrifying. You slid down and bounced back off a huge foam slab at the bottom.
@@dickiea8048 Yes but once you'd got the 'knack' it was easy to go down, can you remember the big rotating hollow tube ? My older brother could hold the top with his hands, spragging and pushing outwards he rotated upside down, I used to try it but too small, so fell out :-D
@@IanLanc Yes I remember that.
There were several moving floor contraptions upstairs near the glass window ( you could look out over the park)
@@dickiea8048 Wasn't it just great! It got closed due to someone getting seriously injured, personally I'd like to see it open again.
And the jungle ride
I got covered in thick black oil the last time I went swimming at Skeg-Vegas
at 7:25 whats the rocket thing?
The Starwheel and Space Simulator
@@dickiea8048 Both built by MItchells- of Skegness!!
@@rar321blue
The Starwheel is still operating now ( travelling as "Oxygen") on the travelling fair.
@@dickiea8048 I thought it was called the enterprise.
@@rar321blueat 2 mins 50. . We see the old ghost train to hell under the pier, any ideas who it was made by, when it operated and ceased to operate ?
That a funny looking atm