I use to go with school and with my parents when we was younger, they thought Alton towers was to old for us at the time. some great memories I had here of my childhood
I wish it was still there! Had a walk round the other day and these nothing left. Loved it as a kid and now I've got kids, i wished i could of taken them to it.
Excellent collection of pics there. Weirdly enough I was thinking of driving up to the site at some point this year - just to see what was still there even if from the outside... From the looks of the comments here, there's sod-all left! Such memories! I'm in my mid-30s now and use to go there with Primary School every year!
the runaway train is now used as a travelling fair ride, it was at nottinghams goose fair october just gone operated by james mellors amusements, it took them ages to set up and take down!: ) loads of the track is missing from the original aswell
have fantastic memories of going here as a kid and i worked there during the summer! Although it is really sad that it has gone- it does look beautiful with all the wildlife back- a bit like it used too pre American Adventure when it was Brittania park (remember that?!). Shame they are going to build houses on there now...but it would be great to live there!!
Thanks so much for this video - went here as a kid. So sad to see it's closed down, but it's quite cool as a ghost town too - like something eerie from a movie
omg i remember this place so different i wannacry. I live near there im gunna go break in and see what happened to it. All i know is the pirate ship and buffalo ride went to twinlakes melton mowbray. Even go look
So ten years later, did you ever go back and break in? 😊 I heard it’s just a bunch of offices and flats now. Had some good memories in this place and it makes me a little sad to know it’s gone.
@@tylerb2438 unfortunately i haven’t. my friend went recently and a company had got permission to build in 2017 but nothing has happened as of yet. someone went around recently putting laminated paper with what rides were there though!
@@andie8989 Random question, I know. But do you ever remember some garbage bins there that made a noise (some kind of rawr I think) once you put litter inside? I was only a little kid when I used to go but that’s one of the few memories I seem to have of the place along with the Wild West show they would have and also the place you would eat which had 3 or large Indian 4 faces above the entrance. Or am I crazy? 😆 I never had anything like the same feels for Alton Towers as this place gave me.
@@tylerb2438 i do remember! they used to have similar ones in black gang chine in the isle of wight that would speak when you put rubbish in! yeah me too, i was only a kid too so my memories are sparing but i do remember the wild west shows and the indoor play area!
@@andie8989 Ahh, nice to hear that I wasn’t just imaging things or getting them mixed up with something else after all this time! I couldn’t ask my Father who used to take me as he isn’t here anymore, and my brother was even younger than I was! Appreciate you putting my mind at ease haha. Be safe! 👍🏻
Im from west Hallam i used to see the them park from by window, it was so awsum having a theme park right near ur home... and in ilson! .. always used to go as a kid just wish i could of grew up with it !
i remember going there, looking at some of my pokemon cards on the bus... jumping off the train ferry (when moving).... nearly falling out of the runaway train... i also remember going as a child at the rolller coaster simulator... clear in my mind,,, plain as day you think everything will last forever, but it won't. Ask your parents and elders what they see around them.... i wonder what the place will be when im 80 (now 21) looking back on my childhood memories with a tear in my eye...
was overlooking the park from Shipley hill on saturday the only building left is the old winding house from the days of Shipley Woodside pit that pre dates britannia park, all park buildings have now gone
For reference, American Adventure would have been reopened in early 2006 if Derbyshire County Council had let us purchase it, but they had "other plans" for the site, and insisted it was no good for a theme park site as the subsidance was too bad. From what I hear 4 years on its now completely flattened and still stood doing nothing.
Was there a few weeks ago - almost entirely demolished by now. Plans to redevelop it as a college are frozen now due to the credit crunch. The site is fallow, and will likely remain so for a while. Still worth a visit though...
I to missed it when it had closed. we used to take our 2 sons there almost every week. We had season tickets for quite a few years. The Log Flume was one of my favorites and the Big Dipper that wasn't realy all that big. and the prirate ship but my very very favorite was the Motion Master Cinima which was just brilliant. Sad it was allowed to get so run down as in this day and age we all need some fun and we all need some jobs.
Sad to see these great parks dissapear due to mis-management! This was also th case with Santa's Village in East Dundee Illinois which failed to open in time for the 2006 season.
bring bk american adventure i went there with my kids in 1999 they loved it so much i was sad to hear it had closed down i would love to take kids bk now they have grown up
Awww loved this place as a kid :) Little bit disheartening to see it's shut (i had no idea), but great to hear it's being rebuilt and reopened. Hope it is successful!
Went there last night for the first time since it shut down, the most recognisable part was the car park, its so overgrown inside that nothing is recognisable.
Jack Manson Is there ANYTHING left at all inside - I thought about taking a trip up there but its quite a drive and I'm yet to hear of anyone being in there recently (apart from you)?
I didn't go too far inside because it was so overgrown, you can just about recognise parts of it if you knew the place well, but really it just looks like a late with trees around it now. The only parts you'll recognise are the paths and markings.
You can get in, people have cut holes in the fance surrounding it. They are meant to be training police dogs in their though, but that being said I was in there for 4 hours yesterday and nothing happened.
@IhateOrton Actually the song i used was played at the begining of the movie when london is "empty" and "deserted" same thing applies here. Plus I like the song. Nothing to do with scaryness, whats scary about a theme park?
I understand that the building with all the indian faces on it (pioneer playland was it?) has since been demolished too. I used to go out with a girl who had relatives in the region, so we often visited the place when we were over that way. So sad to see what has happened to it, had very many happy memories of going there back when I was in my 20s.
Really disappointing to see it in such a state. I went there loads as a kid with my friends. I remember hearing that it was closing and that the The Missile had already been sold off to someone. I think it's just the fact so little remains that you can't even recognise where anything was :( I hope it does re-open!
I was in derbyshire, with my grandparents, brother and cousin. In the house we were staying in, we fond some leaflets for attractions around the area. One of them was about the American Adventure. It had prices, and a map of the park. So we decided to go there. Using TomTom, we got there. All we could see was a big chain fence blocking the entrance. We could see no theme park. It was completley gone. Nothing was there, only the remains of the park. It was horrible. (This was late 2008)
As a kid in the 90’s that lived less than an hour away, I used to go here quite often. I seem to remember some large garbage bins that made a noise if you put trash inside them! 🤔 I always preferred it to the more popular Alton Towers.
wish i could go back for 1 more day! got sum wicked memorys! i think people just stoped going as they were not putting any money into the park and eveything was looking so tired!
I was here yesterday and im going Monday, nothing much, most of the bricks are gone now, except where the mall was, theres the remains of a few staff buildings, the golf float is still there too, its pulled to shore, erm thats about, it i dont even think its guarded anymore
I went back a few weeks ago, the building aren't even standing, just rubble everywhere, it's actually upsetting, i'd give anything just to go back one last time
I was here yesterday 28/12/13 and there aint much to see now but i am going to try and get inside the grounds and have a look around and hope to post a vid of it soon great vid guy's
so sad to see it rot away like this, went there every year as a kid and one day in early '07 we went there and saw it all closed off... hate to see what it looks like now
so sad to see this i went there when i was 7 years old and i remember the buffalo roller coaster too, and the motion cinema there n all! sooo eriee watching this video seeing nothin but land :/ x
Don't know where you heard it was being rebuilt, but it says on the official website that offices, houses and leisure facilities are going to be built there soon. I'm confused o.O
Will it reopen as American Adventure and will all the attractions that have been deconstructed/taken away (Yankee Clipper, Silver City, etc) be rebiult?
QUESTION: when was the last year this park operated.............and why do you think it failed and went under. A lot of parks went under because they just could not afford the huge liability insurance any more....
Can you still get inside? I may take a trip down there and check it out but just need to know if you can get in there or not so I know if its worth the trip over.
it is going to be changed in to a retail park :'( I was going to hopefully go there for my birthday to have a look round and reminisce but the plan was to start building the retail park in June :'( it was the best place ever!!!! probably went down because the telegraph used to give free tickets away....a lot.
Can you get in any of the buildings?, cause i live close to it, and a few friends have been in the park grounds and they also have some keys for it, for some safes or something.
from what i heard, they got rid of a lot of the big rides to turn it into an under 13's park. this meant they could save shit loads on insurance. no one came however. it closed due to no custom.
A bit gutted to see American Adventure in such a bad state but if it is re opening again It would be nice to see it back.I didnt even know it closed down.
I went here with my primary school back when I was about 10 - 11 after we finished our London trip (our school is up north so yeah) and it's kinda eerie to see a place where we had so much fun just closed down. Seriously, kinda weird. Also what's the song you used? You don't know how many times I've heard that song. :)
This was always a half arsed theme park. I lived locally and visited when I got a discount ticket but the only God things were the flume, rapids and motion master cinema. You could walk around the lake a dozen times and be bored rigid after going on everything in the first hour there. The food was expensive as were the gift shops and I never forgave DCC for allowing the park to be built in such a beautiful area. I used to ride ponies in Shipley Park before Britannia Park/American Adventure and saw my first ever dragonflies and watched windsurfers and sailing dingies and there was even a Park Ranger who allowed access to the stables. They closed as were within the theme park boundary and were later used for the horses in the AA Wild West show. Of course they're going to build on the site now but future homeowners will have nothing but trouble with subsidence from the old colliery as that's why the grand Shipley Hall was demolished as well as some AA building and rides. The area is best left to nature but they've already bulldozed the trees which took over after the park closed. It's a sad situation.
Remember visiting here when my older daughter was young, she’s 29 now, was a good place at its peak, got videos as memories now xxx
Cant believe this has closed. Visited with my parents about 10 years ago. The water rapids were fantastic.
I use to go with school and with my parents when we was younger, they thought Alton towers was to old for us at the time. some great memories I had here of my childhood
many thanks,it good peeps like you that let us have a good look at old memories like Am Theme Park,fond good times.cheers.
This is incredible footage - thank you so much for uploading..
This just feels like alot is missing
Even if you didn't know what it was, you would just have this nagging feeling that something is missing....
is it odd that I'm obsessed with things like this?
no dude
did u go there
I wish it was still there! Had a walk round the other day and these nothing left. Loved it as a kid and now I've got kids, i wished i could of taken them to it.
Thanks for the memories .. great !
This is on the Theme Parks page in TV Tropes's Nightmare Fuel section.
I used to go here, brings back great memories& happy to know they will be building it back up:D
Excellent collection of pics there. Weirdly enough I was thinking of driving up to the site at some point this year - just to see what was still there even if from the outside... From the looks of the comments here, there's sod-all left! Such memories! I'm in my mid-30s now and use to go there with Primary School every year!
the runaway train is now used as a travelling fair ride, it was at nottinghams goose fair october just gone operated by james mellors amusements, it took them ages to set up and take down!: ) loads of the track is missing from the original aswell
have fantastic memories of going here as a kid and i worked there during the summer! Although it is really sad that it has gone- it does look beautiful with all the wildlife back- a bit like it used too pre American Adventure when it was Brittania park (remember that?!). Shame they are going to build houses on there now...but it would be great to live there!!
Thanks so much for this video - went here as a kid. So sad to see it's closed down, but it's quite cool as a ghost town too - like something eerie from a movie
omg i remember this place so different i wannacry. I live near there im gunna go break in and see what happened to it. All i know is the pirate ship and buffalo ride went to twinlakes melton mowbray. Even go look
So ten years later, did you ever go back and break in? 😊 I heard it’s just a bunch of offices and flats now. Had some good memories in this place and it makes me a little sad to know it’s gone.
@@tylerb2438 unfortunately i haven’t. my friend went recently and a company had got permission to build in 2017 but nothing has happened as of yet. someone went around recently putting laminated paper with what rides were there though!
@@andie8989 Random question, I know. But do you ever remember some garbage bins there that made a noise (some kind of rawr I think) once you put litter inside? I was only a little kid when I used to go but that’s one of the few memories I seem to have of the place along with the Wild West show they would have and also the place you would eat which had 3 or large Indian 4 faces above the entrance. Or am I crazy? 😆 I never had anything like the same feels for Alton Towers as this place gave me.
@@tylerb2438 i do remember! they used to have similar ones in black gang chine in the isle of wight that would speak when you put rubbish in! yeah me too, i was only a kid too so my memories are sparing but i do remember the wild west shows and the indoor play area!
@@andie8989 Ahh, nice to hear that I wasn’t just imaging things or getting them mixed up with something else after all this time! I couldn’t ask my Father who used to take me as he isn’t here anymore, and my brother was even younger than I was! Appreciate you putting my mind at ease haha. Be safe! 👍🏻
Im from west Hallam i used to see the them park from by window, it was so awsum having a theme park right near ur home... and in ilson! .. always used to go as a kid just wish i could of grew up with it !
i remember going there, looking at some of my pokemon cards on the bus... jumping off the train ferry (when moving).... nearly falling out of the runaway train... i also remember going as a child at the rolller coaster simulator... clear in my mind,,, plain as day
you think everything will last forever, but it won't. Ask your parents and elders what they see around them.... i wonder what the place will be when im 80 (now 21) looking back on my childhood memories with a tear in my eye...
the song is called "in the house in a heartbeat" its from 28 days later soundtrack. glad you liked the vid :)
was overlooking the park from Shipley hill on saturday the only building left is the old winding house from the days of Shipley Woodside pit that pre dates britannia park, all park buildings have now gone
@dacs1980
Excellent - just got the album now.
Wonderful piece of work!
THANKS!!
What a gem of a park :(
For reference, American Adventure would have been reopened in early 2006 if Derbyshire County Council had let us purchase it, but they had "other plans" for the site, and insisted it was no good for a theme park site as the subsidance was too bad. From what I hear 4 years on its now completely flattened and still stood doing nothing.
Was there a few weeks ago - almost entirely demolished by now. Plans to redevelop it as a college are frozen now due to the credit crunch. The site is fallow, and will likely remain so for a while. Still worth a visit though...
I to missed it when it had closed. we used to take our 2 sons there almost every week. We had season tickets for quite a few years. The Log Flume was one of my favorites and the Big Dipper that wasn't realy all that big. and the prirate ship but my very very favorite was the Motion Master Cinima which was just brilliant. Sad it was allowed to get so run down as in this day and age we all need some fun and we all need some jobs.
Top notch, went here twice with school 91&94, sad to see it, had a great day. Music's great.
Would like to go and have a look, can you still get in?
i had great memories here
Sad to see these great parks dissapear due to mis-management! This was also th case with Santa's Village in East Dundee Illinois which failed to open in time for the 2006 season.
its called "in the house in a heartbeat" by John Murphy, you can find it the soundtrack of "28 days later" hope that helps
i went there back in the day! good fun times
Nice touch with the 28 Days Later theme.
bring bk american adventure i went there with my kids in 1999 they loved it so much i was sad to hear it had closed down i would love to take kids bk now they have grown up
Awww loved this place as a kid :) Little bit disheartening to see it's shut (i had no idea), but great to hear it's being rebuilt and reopened. Hope it is successful!
Went there last night for the first time since it shut down, the most recognisable part was the car park, its so overgrown inside that nothing is recognisable.
Jack Manson Is there ANYTHING left at all inside - I thought about taking a trip up there but its quite a drive and I'm yet to hear of anyone being in there recently (apart from you)?
I didn't go too far inside because it was so overgrown, you can just about recognise parts of it if you knew the place well, but really it just looks like a late with trees around it now. The only parts you'll recognise are the paths and markings.
Ah ok, maybe best if I don't bother then.
Sad stuff!
Thanks for your reply.
Yh just to add me and my mates went in there today and there is absolutely nothing, just piles of rubble and brick
luke marshasll ok, thanks for letting me know! So gutted about this :-(
@jayceezborg its at goose fair in nottingham now the alton towers one is not the one that was at American Adventure
You can get in, people have cut holes in the fance surrounding it. They are meant to be training police dogs in their though, but that being said I was in there for 4 hours yesterday and nothing happened.
Went to Alton Towers a couple of weeks ago, i'm sure the runaway mine train is there now!
@IhateOrton Actually the song i used was played at the begining of the movie when london is "empty" and "deserted" same thing applies here. Plus I like the song. Nothing to do with scaryness, whats scary about a theme park?
I understand that the building with all the indian faces on it (pioneer playland was it?) has since been demolished too. I used to go out with a girl who had relatives in the region, so we often visited the place when we were over that way. So sad to see what has happened to it, had very many happy memories of going there back when I was in my 20s.
2:27 there was always loads of people round that area cus of all hte shops but now it looks soo... different!
Really disappointing to see it in such a state. I went there loads as a kid with my friends. I remember hearing that it was closing and that the The Missile had already been sold off to someone. I think it's just the fact so little remains that you can't even recognise where anything was :(
I hope it does re-open!
Soooo many memories. So sad.
I was in derbyshire, with my grandparents, brother and cousin. In the house we were staying in, we fond some leaflets for attractions around the area. One of them was about the American Adventure. It had prices, and a map of the park. So we decided to go there.
Using TomTom, we got there. All we could see was a big chain fence blocking the entrance. We could see no theme park. It was completley gone. Nothing was there, only the remains of the park. It was horrible.
(This was late 2008)
I used to love going there as a kid, sad to see it like this now.
As a kid in the 90’s that lived less than an hour away, I used to go here quite often. I seem to remember some large garbage bins that made a noise if you put trash inside them! 🤔 I always preferred it to the more popular Alton Towers.
I know. My childhood memories seem to have all just gone.
Also have to say that those faces where the door was to some sort of fast food restaurant from what I remember were a LOT bigger looking as a kid. 😂
@jayceezborg Yeah I went there too and i thought that Alton Towers also had the log flume, the rapids, and rollercoasters too! ......... or not.
wish i could go back for 1 more day! got sum wicked memorys! i think people just stoped going as they were not putting any money into the park and eveything was looking so tired!
I was here yesterday and im going Monday, nothing much, most of the bricks are gone now, except where the mall was, theres the remains of a few staff buildings, the golf float is still there too, its pulled to shore, erm thats about, it i dont even think its guarded anymore
I went back a few weeks ago, the building aren't even standing, just rubble everywhere, it's actually upsetting, i'd give anything just to go back one last time
I went to this place about 10 years ago and it was completely dead. There was about 20 people in the whole park. I loved it! Too bad it's gone...
its by john murphy, its called in the house in a heartbeat. hope that helps.
I was here yesterday 28/12/13 and there aint much to see now but i am going to try and get inside the grounds and have a look around and hope to post a vid of it soon great vid guy's
Have you been in yet?
so sad to see it rot away like this, went there every year as a kid and one day in early '07 we went there and saw it all closed off... hate to see what it looks like now
can anyone tell me what the shooting range thing was called where u shot the hillbillies & they spurted water at you? please its really bugging me!
so sad to see this i went there when i was 7 years old and i remember the buffalo roller coaster too, and the motion cinema there n all! sooo eriee watching this video seeing nothin but land :/ x
Tvtropes send me here. No wonder this is under Nightrmare Fuel.
I know this is over 6 years old but same here lol
Yeah sign still there, if you go down, look for the big tower with a smashed camera theres a hole in the fence there
Wonderful :) What I find weird however is the way in which some of your photos are "warped" :s Spoooooky!
Don't know where you heard it was being rebuilt, but it says on the official website that offices, houses and leisure facilities are going to be built there soon. I'm confused o.O
its sooo sad to watch this actually makes me feel depressed i love it there =0(
Will it reopen as American Adventure and will all the attractions that have been deconstructed/taken away (Yankee Clipper, Silver City, etc) be rebiult?
QUESTION: when was the last year this park operated.............and why do you think it failed and went under. A lot of parks went under because they just could not afford the huge liability insurance any more....
Damn sucks that we can't have a theme park in the East Midlands. The theming there was second to none.
Can you still get inside? I may take a trip down there and check it out but just need to know if you can get in there or not so I know if its worth the trip over.
01.19 - aah... I remember tucking down on some real American fish and chips here. Kendal Fried Chicken will also be missed.
Most likely got killed by Alton Towers or Thorpe Park, I've been meaning to go to AltonTowers but it's a good old 3-4hour drive from where I live.
it is going to be changed in to a retail park :'( I was going to hopefully go there for my birthday to have a look round and reminisce but the plan was to start building the retail park in June :'( it was the best place ever!!!! probably went down because the telegraph used to give free tickets away....a lot.
i live 2miles away in ilkeston and yes you can but theres no points because theres literally nothing there now just the lake and one rapid ride car.
Yo dude hear you went a couple of months ago how was american adventure was anything left worth looking at?
Was this the song used in 28 Weeks Later? Can ya tell me what it's called. Thanks!
Can you get in any of the buildings?, cause i live close to it, and a few friends have been in the park grounds and they also have some keys for it, for some safes or something.
Do you have any idea why this particular park failed and was abandoned?
Where is this place at? What was the name of the park? How long has it been closed?
Hey Man,
song is:- "in a house in a heartbeat"
from what i heard, they got rid of a lot of the big rides to turn it into an under 13's park. this meant they could save shit loads on insurance. no one came however. it closed due to no custom.
Not sure mate, I live in the Philippines now so I've not been back in over 4 years.
A bit gutted to see American Adventure in such a bad state but if it is re opening again It would be nice to see it back.I didnt even know it closed down.
I used to always go there as a kid
@ChiefPredz
Hillbilly Moonshine, we currently have 2 if you want to buy one ;)
sorry, completely at a tangent here...
... but whats the music on this???
:)
can you get in to look round whats security like then
I want to visit the remains soon. Hopefully in late 2020.
please tell me .. i need the name of this song and who is the interpret ... please thank you
is the entrance sign still there?
I went here with my primary school back when I was about 10 - 11 after we finished our London trip (our school is up north so yeah) and it's kinda eerie to see a place where we had so much fun just closed down. Seriously, kinda weird.
Also what's the song you used? You don't know how many times I've heard that song. :)
where is this theme park like what state?
Can you still get on to the site?
It would be nice if folks would post where the park is etc.I'm having no luck lately, my posts just don't show up on here.
I'm guessing that song is by Godspeed You! Black Emperor?
you can get on there still?
what song is this please?
This was near Nottingham right?
why did it close down ?
very sad. had some brill times here in my teens.
I still go there now on my bike
This was always a half arsed theme park. I lived locally and visited when I got a discount ticket but the only God things were the flume, rapids and motion master cinema. You could walk around the lake a dozen times and be bored rigid after going on everything in the first hour there. The food was expensive as were the gift shops and I never forgave DCC for allowing the park to be built in such a beautiful area. I used to ride ponies in Shipley Park before Britannia Park/American Adventure and saw my first ever dragonflies and watched windsurfers and sailing dingies and there was even a Park Ranger who allowed access to the stables. They closed as were within the theme park boundary and were later used for the horses in the AA Wild West show. Of course they're going to build on the site now but future homeowners will have nothing but trouble with subsidence from the old colliery as that's why the grand Shipley Hall was demolished as well as some AA building and rides. The area is best left to nature but they've already bulldozed the trees which took over after the park closed. It's a sad situation.
Gena F we just had a container delivered and going to level the land for housing
Gena F I wished for the whole American adventure to take over the whole of Shipley park lol
where did you hear that?
I live literally 2 mintues from Americans Adventure, its sad to see it looking like a ghost town.