Lambton Lion Park - Then & Now.
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- A brief look at the history of Lambton Lion park and the later Pleasure Park. 34 years after its closure i take a look from the air at what remains of this once popular North East Attraction shot in stunning HD. I hope you find this interesting and informative. Shot using a DJI Phantom 3 and Litchi ground planning software, Edited with Adobe premier elements.
We lived 5 minutes away, and my aunt worked in the cafe.....lots of happy memories, lovely to watch, thank you.
+Barbara Daines you are welcome. Ive just been waiting for my Phantom flying skills to get to a level where i could capture this before is gone forever. Pleased you enjoyed.
Fantastic! I'm fascinated by Lambton Park. I worked on 'The Paradise' as Choreographer for one of their episodes. Thanks for making the video!
+ChoreographyTown you are more than welcome. I had a feeling this would be a popular subject as a lot of people hold the Lion park and estate close to their hearts
My hubby has told me about his trip here as a kid and he held a lion cub. He lived locally. its great for me to be able to see this and Penshaw monument and Worm hill where he spent his youth. thankyou
Well worth an update now. Look at all of the new housing😮. Joy
Great job with the video, loved it, informative but also sad. I hadn't realized Lampton Lyon park was this close to Newcastle. My father took some cine footage here in 1973, so I will have to get it digitized and uploaded onto my channel in the coming months.
Newcastle Upon Tyne - Video from the past I would love to see that when it’s done. I have better equipment now so your footage would be nice to integrate into a new video. Let me know when you have it didgitized. Pleased you enjoyed
Thanks but I will actually be uploading the footage to my own channel to make a video feature of Lampton Park.
I worked there as a keeper from 1978 to 1980 and my dad was the curator and vet on the site. Massive shame it closed
iain shilliday Do you remember my father Roy Jackson ? That's him in the landrover feeding the lion's the big one was called grumble guts !
iain shilliday
This was great we went their in the 70s in a land rover had a great day never knew it was that size fantastic to see where we went from a birds perspective. ....
Thanks for the video. Very interesting history. i would have loved to have seen the place in it's heyday.
There used to be good car rallies on this estate in the 80's. cracking venue and would be great to be used again for a rally.
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visited when I was a young lad.. great to look at the site now..always wondered what it was like behind the walls now! thanks for that 😉
You are very welcome
Fantastic ,Derek I remember visiting the park as a child
+totter1966 many thanks for the comments. Id love to see this back here.
Me too…Took me back to those ‘good old days’
I had to do this as the plans are in for houses on this site. Need to hold it as it is for history sake. How cool would it have been if it had took off like lightwater valley or flamingo land had. would have been epic.
Were all going to the zoo tomorrow. Flamingo land, zoo tomorrow. Flamingo land, have a good day. Lol.
Excellent video...it's not until you see a aerial shot of the estate ,that you realise how big it actually is.Also,after the safari park closed, Lord Lambton transformed it into 1 of the best Pheasant/Game Shooting Estates in the UK...Hence,they was no public access..( unless you did a spot of poaching...back in the 80's..)
Cracking video that Derek lad. I'm gutted I wasn't old enough to visit lambton's estate while it was still the safari park, being born in '82 I just missed out on it! And what's worse I've lived just outside the estate boundary walls all my life and always wanted to know more about its history as it's a rare thing to be able to visit. I was lucky enough to be in last year for a sporting event and loved being able to see the castle and see a small amount of the estate. Love the place!! Proud to live near it!! Hope you're keeping well anyway mate and keep up the cracking drone work. D
Cheers Dan.. Thats the most you ever spoke haha. Hope ya well and cheers for the comment.
Cool video - nice camera work along with information 👍🏻
+MrSilky1969 Thanks for your comments. It was a big surprise for me to be there again after all these years.
+Derek Sweeting - you did a great job mate - nice memories
Great video!! how many acres does the Lambton estate cover?
that brought back some great memories
at 3.04 the landrover pic, the man feeding the lion's is my late father Roy Jackson who was the park butcher for a number of years, the large male lion was called grumble guts! the little kid in the cage was me !
Wow Thats absolutely mad. Im pleased its brought back some good memories for you.
Derek Sweeting the funny thing is I didn't know that photo existed until yesterday I now live in Wiltshire, my family came down here when the park closed, my father accompanied some of the lion's down to longleat safari park and found work down here so we moved a few miles from longleat!
Great story
Is that Derek who used to hang about with us through the 90s? Dave, Mick, Darren and John?
Yup
my granddad 'john bull' ran bournemoor cricket ground, in the summer,we would stayl, in the cottage across the road. i remember being in bed with the sash windows open listening to the lions roaring not far away. i may be wrong wasnt someone mauled to death, as he got out of his car...
paul oliver great story
So my mam and dad and me were driving through the lion section when steam started coming out of the car bonnet and the car overheated and broke down. We had to wait until a ranger in a Land Rover and a rifle came as we couldn’t get out of the car for obvious reasons. We were eventually towed to safety. The car Ariel had been snapped and the wing mirror pulled off by the monkeys so the car was looking pretty sorry for itself. We only lived 15 minutes from it but it was the best (albeit prematurely short) experience ever ! It would be good to know why it eventually closed, presumably because of money.
id like to get permission to fly around with a drone im new to it i know lawfully i can but would prefere to ask first it just seems fair. however if they say no i wont anyone got contact details.
I went there a couple of times with my parents when I was young. Do my eyes deceive me or at 3.04 is that a hatch in the 'safety' cage on the back of the jeep for putting your hand out?!! I was always told the park was closed due to a number of babboons escaping. Legend has it they bred in the wild and that's why the poulation of Bournmoor (or insert village of your choice) has grown so much ;)
Probably for chucking food out.
TheDarkBagpuss that is my father in the back, and the little lad with him is me !
I’m 13 and we got lost on a bike ride today and found this we called it a real life hogwarts
For the record, there was no miniature railway.
not originally but one was added, sites.google.com/site/allthingsbournmoor/p-lambton---lion-park
@@kenmeade9924 There was no track. It didn't go anywhere.
My parents took me and my brother there as kids. Little did my brother know he would be burying a dead elephant there working for George Vardy Plant hire years later.
Didn't know a thing about this until I started work on the housing estate being built here.
one of my all time favourite zoos... fantastic historically ... inspired me to write my own blog at www.unboxthosememories.com about closed zoos
Thanks Kevin i shall certain give that a read
Guessing you ran out of medicine
why should we the public help lampton with his huge dept mate not me im poor like most people in the northeast sod lampton and his land dept thats the way of the world and the criminals that run it THE BANKS.
And that has what to do with a much loved and missed piece of north east history?? I have no idea why you are on a rampage against the lambton estate and you have a phone so you can’t be classified as poor it’s not exactly and essential item is it ?? If you have nothing constructive to say to me about my content then say nothing .. ps drop me you details and I will send you a tenner .