We used to go with the children every year in the 90s. It was fantastic. The jousting was very entertaining. The serpent train round the edge. Tower of Terror was great. The falconry displays. Ghost train just inside on the left. Somethimng for everyone. It was a shame it closed.
Man, I have to say my eyes got watery going down memory lane. the match cuts you’ve made between the old photographs and the current sites are just outstanding. Thank you for your incredible work.
Another superb video Darren, and i can't wait to see the rest of the series. The irony that the new rollercoaster was refused planning permission because it was slightly higher than anything existing on the park, and would spoil the landscape, but when driving past on the M6 Motorway you could clearly see the existing rollercoaster anyway so what difference would it make! It was a local landmark. If only they had seen fit to dig down 10ft, the new coaster would've been ok to build! I'm guessing not enough money was passed over in brown envelopes so they refused it. Camelot was a brilliant day out but, it was badly managed and never changed with the times. Also, the opening hours were very restrictive so it was a mad dash around to try and get on every ride there when it was hugely expanded, rather than a relaxing & enjoyable day out.
I will say that this will probably be my most favourite explore you have done so far! Crystal Palace being the second. I love seeing abandoned theme parks even when bare but because you always bring these places back to life its even more amazing. Can't wait for the second part!
Another brilliant video Darren, its very very sad to see very little left. Unfortunately it takes ages to build things but can be gone in Seconds. As for the local council they won't allow houses to go onto the old park, they want a new park built, however I think that this will keep going on for the remainder and nothing will get sorted which is very upsetting, I look forward to part 2 of your visit!
I have some early memories etched in my mind from visiting as a young kid maybe 1986 or 1987. It’s funny to think how basic things were in the UK back in the 80s… but also sad and kind of weird that somewhere once so busy and magical is now a pile of rubble. Thanks for making this video - I’m looking forward to seeing part 2.
Another great video Darren, love the fade before and after images. I visited in 2008, mainly for Knightmare which was a great ride. I didn't think much of the rest of the park and I remember the food been terrible. It might have been more suited to families and not thrill seekers. The kind of place you'd visit once rather than the bigger parks were you'd go back again and again.
@Dan23 7 The street vendor style food stalls where the better options. From memory anyways. Always had issues with the food court. But the street style vendors where better.
@@Foxstar1387 My mum always had butties etc with us, the corn dog was a treat 😂 My mum used to take butties to the cinema and everywhere. I bet it saved her a fortune 😂
So many great childhood memories of camelot, incredible work with the amount of detail you go into, haven't seen a video like this before, it's interesting to see what it looks like now and then a fade to what it looked like when I last went as a kid, you explain the site perfectly, really sad to see this place go, looking forward to the next part great work
Nice one Darren. I admit to being no fan of theme parks and similar but it`s still a shame when large established places close and get torn down leaving just their footprints.
Happy memories of this place. A school mates dad played Merlin and I have other friends that worked there. It was always a happy place to go. There was a night club attached to the hotel some great nights there too
Amazing video so so sad to see what the park has become now. This was one of my favourite childhood memories to come to this park with my family and friends :(
its verry nostalgic place for me. can anybody remember the cats of the round table?🤣worst thing ive ever seen, you should all check out the explore by hell on earth
Fantastic as always Darren. Many happy memories there. Think there was 1 ride like a cage. Had to make sure your pockets were zipped up as it hung you upside down. Usually could hear people's belongings or money dropping out of their pockets. As you will be aware many videos on youtube of people getting in and security giving chase, checking out the old rides and park. A friend of mine used to drive the back way, of the motorway services then drive behind the police station, to get on. Think this was a short cut....? Can't wait for the next instalment. Is the jousting included ?
Great video, the transition shots from past to present are brill 👍 remember going to Camelot on school trips then in the first few years of it closing we would often go exploring. Still have the pics of me sat at the top of knightmare and other parts of the park. Sad to see it like this now
As a boy scout in the 90s i had a couple of days out at Camalot and also American Adventure, i honestly cant remember much about them , but i still have some plastic toy cowboys and indians from AA :D Lightwater Valley was always my fav, but i am a Yorkshireman so its probably bias.
I worked the 1998 season at Camelot and this brings back memories. Such a shame its a great location for a Theme park. The buildings on the left as you entered the park were the old staff rooms.
Loved this place just wish it never closed visited at lest every year. I even turned up the year it closed and that’s how I found out it was never to open again 😢
Most interesting Darren thank you. I never made it to this park probably because it was always too close for Alton Towers and I would have the preference for AT everytime. I can remember the advertisements for the park however. Shame they couldn’t get permission for that boomerang coaster it could have saved them from closure. Nice filming as ever.
In the early nineties, round the back of the castle had almost like a splash play area behind it with kids flat rides surrounding it. I recently found all my pictures and vcr videos. A number of my family friends were involved in the performance side of the park suck as the equestrian jousting and comedy/magic. Always such a sad time viewing its demise
Darren, great fades, especially as in colour, remarkable that you were able to get those old images lined up and teh research seems top notch, obviously befitting from your passion for amusement parks. The length is about right any longer and my brain would burst assimilating all the data and detailed explanations. 🤣 A minor knee jerk observation. Do you write a script or just narrate / record 'on the fly'? I ask because there are a few repetitive phrases 'here you/we are' , 'you can see', 'right there' and a few others which are OK but I think for a documentary of this type a connected script rather than a series of specific observations for each picture may be more immersive. I'm probably not being very clear but in essence I think I'm suggesting that the narrative may be better if it led into the images and connected them rather than describing them individually as they came on screen. To put it another way tell the story using the images to demonstrate and enhance the tale rather than show the pictures and describe them. Please don't think I'm condemning what you have released - it still held my interest and gave a brilliant explanation of the site and its history. As I said knee jerk observation so others can condemn me. Oh and full marks for keeping Emley Moor in the title sequence 😂
Thanks Barrie. Not at all. I want these kind of comments, it's why I asked. I always record on the fly on site as it makes better discovery, besides its always hard to tell exactly what I will find. Im always aware of certain things and sometimes I have a basic plan. But once on site it's really hard to keep to it. So I never script anything as I never know what I'll find or do. And on this occasion I was very very pushed for time. Only having two hours to do the whole site. And racing against losing light. So I rushed around a little. Probably not paying attention too much to what I'm saying.
@@AdventureMe Perhaps then consider maintaining the 'face on camera' narration but mixing with some post production narration to form natural links for the no face on camera stuff. I know that may considerably add to the post production but heading that way moves the nature of the video to a documentary style rather than a diary / blog style. Anyway it's all good so I guess "Stay Calm and Carry" on is appropriate. BTW yes- small episodes not one big one hour event.
I remember camelot be nothing more than a cooler than your average park. Then it just got bigger and bigger. The jousting knights and live entertainment was pretty amazing to see. Pretty sad to see Parkhall like it is today
I loved this place as a kid, The tower of terror got me over my fear of inverted roller-coasters due to the loop being hidden in the Tower and not finding out until I rode it.
Darren, this must be the first time when you did photo fades that the old and new were both in color. Sad that the park closed, people today spend WAY too much time indoors sitting. Without places like this to go to kids find a way of getting in some sort of mischief. All the people that paid a visit Camelot will always have the memories. Thanks for your time and effort you put into your work. Breaks over, back to work for me....... lol
I’ve got some really fond memories of this theme park. My last visit there was in 2012 and I remember it was a lovely sunny day. It always blows my mind how you can go to somewhere and regularly visit, yet one day you don’t realise it will be your last. It’s sad.
Darren, I absolutely love your video content. As an enthusiast I love the theme park and amusement park content, mixed with history and fascinating information. Your other historical content is also very interesting and highlights great places to go explore and visit. Yet again, the photo fades add massively to the content and are done so well. There’s an air of sadness, for something we’ve lost and will never get back. Thank you and keep it up. There really isn’t anything else like this on UA-cam 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I went there as a teen in the mid 90's - probably near its peak. Theres always something really eerie about an abandoned theme park imo - you can almost hear the laughter and screams echoing around....
I grew up going here every summer with friends we used to take the back door into the theme park, it's a shame it closed as would of loved to taken my child
Amazing video mate, loved how you managed to line up the new footage with the old pictures, must have taken ages to do that !! God I miss this park loads, it was the UK’s best “themed” theme park
Cracking photo fades as always, although the most powerful bit for me was the time-lapse style Google Earth changes over the years. Interesting to see the woodlands properly fighting back in the central valley!
The photo at 2:20 if I remember would have been taken from the top of a child-friendly, catterpillar coaster if it existed at the time, because this one and a log-flume was there in the exact corner, by mid to late 2000's, flume being possibly behind the photographer, jousting ring would have been to their right, at the other end, earlier in the 00's it was used more I guess, when I was 10 or under, but not used by 2010/11 when I went there in last year or two of secondary school, just sat there for lunch I guess. Cant exactly remember going on that ferris-wheel but it was there when I went around. The line on the slope behind it was for the dragon-ride, going round this hollow, with some wooden ramp/path leading past it's station, just behind the jousting ring and the swing ship that mum reminds me of, having had to accompany me on when very young. Though there was some stuff behind this hollow, past the dragon station, excalibur, ghost train and extra go-carts maybe?
Thank you Darren for another fascinating video, of seeing Camelot theame park before and after. I have never been but to see what would have been there was exciting, and when you had the drone up, you could imagine the buildings a shame it had to go
Great video. I worked at Camelot from 2001-2005 but I learned a few things I didn’t know about the history of the park. It’s sad to see it in such a sorry state. Hopefully some plans for the site will eventually come to fruition.
I was lucky enough to live round the corner in Coppull and could walk to Camalot from my house with my friend in the late 80s early 90s. We used to get discounted tickets because we lived so close. The Beast is still my favourite Dark ride. Tower of Terror is where you would find us all at the end of the day getting off the ride and then running round to get straight back on again. Great memories.
If you go back earlier in time, 1970s the site was used as a horse jumping arena and some scenes from the movie , International velvet was filmed there. I was a child film extra so I remember it well.
Love all your videos Darren. They are very informative and we love the way you fade out your photos so we can compare how it looks now to how it used to look. We watched this with great sadness as we have very fond memories of Camelot. My mum loved watching the jousting tournaments and our favourite ride was the Dragon Flyer. So sad to see it all gone 😢. What were Chorley Council thinking refusing planning permission which may have saved the park! It wasn't as if it was going to affect the town centre and all they are now left with now is ugly wasteland. Shame on them. Keep up the good work Darren. Looking forward to seeing your next videos. 👏👍
Great part 1 Darren as all your videos are. I'm not a million miles from there and visited the park more than once as a young boy. Is the car rally track still there? As a teenager to my twenties in the mid nineties when I was driving myself we used to drive up there to watch the rally cars events. Think it's route was over the back of the park?? Also Park hall was a night club!!
I've finally watched all Adventure Me videos so now I'm up to date. As the series shifts from railway lines to old theatres and theme parks it's farewell for now to "abutments" but we still have "retaining walls".
I love your videos so much! You tell the stories so well and your graphics, camera work, and transitions are fantastic! It's brilliant to watch your channel grow from strength to strength.
Darren, you never cease to enthral us. That was so interesting. The before and after photos so nostalgic. How sad it is all gone but thanks to you, the memory is kept alive. Look forward to next instalment. Thank you.
The Beast 😃 forgot about that. Went many times as a youth in late 80’s early 90’s. Shame it isn’t there now as my 5 year old wants to go to a theme park that isn’t the pleasure beach again (as we live right near it) , but anything else is a fair drive away and she hates long journeys. 😅 I remember the first time I went as a small kid and the rain hammered down all day. I remember going on the caterpillar that day . Went on it just after the lockdowns at gullivers world. . They were only allowed a few people on it at once. They had to fill it with sandbags to make the weight up and give it a big push start to get it going
Great nostalgic video Darren. I never visited Camelot’s but it’s so sad to see a place in decline which would have once generated many many happy memories for lots of people when it was in its hey day
I have so many good memories of this park. I remember an attraction called "Roller-Quest" in the entertainment complex. I pushed through all the other kids to scan the sensors on the wall and achieved the daily high score and was given a complimentary baseball cap from one of the staff. The tower of terror was an amazing ride for a 10/11 year old, I remember falconry displays near the castle that surrounded the loop of the coaster. The live jousting tournaments were absolutely epic. So sad when I heard about the closure as I would love to come here as an adult. Probably my favourite theme park.
I can remember a dragon in a cave, a rope bridge in the trees , barbers shop quartet, castle dining hall with minstrel telling a story and lights on each character.
I use to work for a bakery in Blackpool sunrise and 1 of my daily deliveries was Camelot this was around 1987 I can stil picture the car park at the front it was a busy place, Love watching your videos very knowledgeable keep up the Great work.
Interesting series of videos 👍🏼😊. Never visited the park itself, but stayed at Park Hall hotel in 1991 for a course at work and my room overlooked the caterpillar rollercoaster. Very sad to see it in a derelict state now 🙁
We went every year sometimes multiple times a year. We thought it had closed tho early 2000. If I had known it was still open until 2012 we would have for sure went. Was always a place I thought I would take my kids, alas not to be. I honestly wish it still survived or something similar comes back.
Another major hit the park took was the introduction of the minimum wage, I worked there in 95 or 96 and ride staff was paid £2.50 an hour and I'm pretty sure concession staff got less, so in 1998 when the minimum wage came in everyone got as least a £0.70 an hour rise as most staff were students.
Great video! Loved The Ultimate! Such a unique coaster, being so close to the ground made it feel fast. Such a shame LWV made the decision to scrap it, totally the wrong decision in my opinion, nothing to draw in the crowds now, can't see the park lasting for long, it will be another Camelot before we know it.
I have very fond memories of this theme park, growing up as a kid it was my favourite and I remember going with my primary school as an end of school trip ❤️ so incredibly heartbreaking to see what little remains left 🏰
Just a pity it wasn't a few miles further west.... It'd have been in west Lancashire council area not Chorley.. west lancs are far more focussed on long term plans and attracting investment.. Chorley just seem to like saying no . Exactly Why there's nothing built on it now .
Used to go here every year on high school trips because it was only an hour drive from school. Great memories, Shame to see it close down but it was never that busy towards the end.
We used to go with the children every year in the 90s. It was fantastic. The jousting was very entertaining. The serpent train round the edge. Tower of Terror was great. The falconry displays. Ghost train just inside on the left. Somethimng for everyone. It was a shame it closed.
Man, I have to say my eyes got watery going down memory lane. the match cuts you’ve made between the old photographs and the current sites are just outstanding. Thank you for your incredible work.
Glad to hear it!
Another superb video Darren, and i can't wait to see the rest of the series.
The irony that the new rollercoaster was refused planning permission because it was slightly higher than anything existing on the park, and would spoil the landscape, but when driving past on the M6 Motorway you could clearly see the existing rollercoaster anyway so what difference would it make! It was a local landmark.
If only they had seen fit to dig down 10ft, the new coaster would've been ok to build!
I'm guessing not enough money was passed over in brown envelopes so they refused it.
Camelot was a brilliant day out but, it was badly managed and never changed with the times. Also, the opening hours were very restrictive so it was a mad dash around to try and get on every ride there when it was hugely expanded, rather than a relaxing & enjoyable day out.
I will say that this will probably be my most favourite explore you have done so far! Crystal Palace being the second. I love seeing abandoned theme parks even when bare but because you always bring these places back to life its even more amazing. Can't wait for the second part!
Another brilliant video Darren, its very very sad to see very little left. Unfortunately it takes ages to build things but can be gone in Seconds.
As for the local council they won't allow houses to go onto the old park, they want a new park built, however I think that this will keep going on for the remainder and nothing will get sorted which is very upsetting, I look forward to part 2 of your visit!
I have some early memories etched in my mind from visiting as a young kid maybe 1986 or 1987. It’s funny to think how basic things were in the UK back in the 80s… but also sad and kind of weird that somewhere once so busy and magical is now a pile of rubble. Thanks for making this video - I’m looking forward to seeing part 2.
Thanks Thomas
Stayed in that hotel a couple of times for work a few years ago, had a sneaky wander round the old theme park on an evening.
Another great video Darren, love the fade before and after images.
I visited in 2008, mainly for Knightmare which was a great ride. I didn't think much of the rest of the park and I remember the food been terrible. It might have been more suited to families and not thrill seekers. The kind of place you'd visit once rather than the bigger parks were you'd go back again and again.
In its early days it was cutting edge. As thrills got more mainstream it got left behind.
Food quality was never a strong point in the park. Was definitely more a family park. Go for a few hours then scoot off home.
@@Foxstar1387 I had my first Corndog at Camelot. There was a stall near the big pirate ship
@Dan23 7 The street vendor style food stalls where the better options. From memory anyways. Always had issues with the food court. But the street style vendors where better.
@@Foxstar1387 My mum always had butties etc with us, the corn dog was a treat 😂
My mum used to take butties to the cinema and everywhere. I bet it saved her a fortune 😂
So many great childhood memories of camelot, incredible work with the amount of detail you go into, haven't seen a video like this before, it's interesting to see what it looks like now and then a fade to what it looked like when I last went as a kid, you explain the site perfectly, really sad to see this place go, looking forward to the next part great work
Great video, me and friend managed to get in around 2018 before they started knocking most of it down.
Brilliant, 🙏🤍 your videos are some of the best out there 💯💯🙏 have a smashing week ahead ✊🏼🤟🏻💯🤟🏻
Nice one Darren. I admit to being no fan of theme parks and similar but it`s still a shame when large established places close and get torn down leaving just their footprints.
Happy memories of this place. A school mates dad played Merlin and I have other friends that worked there. It was always a happy place to go. There was a night club attached to the hotel some great nights there too
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for another really enjoyable video. It's not a park I visited but I do remember it. I look forward to seeing your next video.
Amazing video so so sad to see what the park has become now. This was one of my favourite childhood memories to come to this park with my family and friends :(
spent many a happy family day out at Camelot theme park the tower of terror was the very 1st coaster I ever went on.
its verry nostalgic place for me. can anybody remember the cats of the round table?🤣worst thing ive ever seen, you should all check out the explore by hell on earth
Very nicely done. Love the compositions too.
Many thanks!
Fantastic as always Darren. Many happy memories there. Think there was 1 ride like a cage. Had to make sure your pockets were zipped up as it hung you upside down. Usually could hear people's belongings or money dropping out of their pockets. As you will be aware many videos on youtube of people getting in and security giving chase, checking out the old rides and park. A friend of mine used to drive the back way, of the motorway services then drive behind the police station, to get on. Think this was a short cut....? Can't wait for the next instalment. Is the jousting included ?
Morning Darren, superb opening video.
Thanks 👍
Brilliant video, brings back many happy memories I had there with my daughters. So sad to see it in this state now 😢
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video, the transition shots from past to present are brill 👍 remember going to Camelot on school trips then in the first few years of it closing we would often go exploring. Still have the pics of me sat at the top of knightmare and other parts of the park. Sad to see it like this now
Glad you enjoyed it
As a boy scout in the 90s i had a couple of days out at Camalot and also American Adventure, i honestly cant remember much about them , but i still have some plastic toy cowboys and indians from AA :D
Lightwater Valley was always my fav, but i am a Yorkshireman so its probably bias.
I worked the 1998 season at Camelot and this brings back memories. Such a shame its a great location for a Theme park. The buildings on the left as you entered the park were the old staff rooms.
I only went twice in the late 80s early 90s and once when knightmare opened. So not much I remember about it. Just certain things
Great Video, the before and after shots are brilliant it's sad to see it gone. Many happy years working on the rides.
Glad you enjoyed it
Loved this place just wish it never closed visited at lest every year. I even turned up the year it closed and that’s how I found out it was never to open again 😢
Great video Darren.
Thanks 👍
I live about 2 miles from there. Used to be great in its heyday. The nightclub there was the place to be also.
A theme park getting screwed over by a zoning board is always a tragedy.
Interesting 👍🏻
Most interesting Darren thank you. I never made it to this park probably because it was always too close for Alton Towers and I would have the preference for AT everytime. I can remember the advertisements for the park however. Shame they couldn’t get permission for that boomerang coaster it could have saved them from closure. Nice filming as ever.
Thanks David
In the early nineties, round the back of the castle had almost like a splash play area behind it with kids flat rides surrounding it. I recently found all my pictures and vcr videos.
A number of my family friends were involved in the performance side of the park suck as the equestrian jousting and comedy/magic. Always such a sad time viewing its demise
Yeah I remember the kids paddling pool at the side of the castle. One thing that stuck in my head.
Brilliant.. wasn't there a big swing boat
Yeah. Next episode
Darren, great fades, especially as in colour, remarkable that you were able to get those old images lined up and teh research seems top notch, obviously befitting from your passion for amusement parks. The length is about right any longer and my brain would burst assimilating all the data and detailed explanations. 🤣
A minor knee jerk observation. Do you write a script or just narrate / record 'on the fly'? I ask because there are a few repetitive phrases 'here you/we are' , 'you can see', 'right there' and a few others which are OK but I think for a documentary of this type a connected script rather than a series of specific observations for each picture may be more immersive. I'm probably not being very clear but in essence I think I'm suggesting that the narrative may be better if it led into the images and connected them rather than describing them individually as they came on screen. To put it another way tell the story using the images to demonstrate and enhance the tale rather than show the pictures and describe them. Please don't think I'm condemning what you have released - it still held my interest and gave a brilliant explanation of the site and its history. As I said knee jerk observation so others can condemn me.
Oh and full marks for keeping Emley Moor in the title sequence 😂
Thanks Barrie. Not at all. I want these kind of comments, it's why I asked. I always record on the fly on site as it makes better discovery, besides its always hard to tell exactly what I will find. Im always aware of certain things and sometimes I have a basic plan. But once on site it's really hard to keep to it. So I never script anything as I never know what I'll find or do. And on this occasion I was very very pushed for time. Only having two hours to do the whole site. And racing against losing light. So I rushed around a little. Probably not paying attention too much to what I'm saying.
@@AdventureMe Perhaps then consider maintaining the 'face on camera' narration but mixing with some post production narration to form natural links for the no face on camera stuff. I know that may considerably add to the post production but heading that way moves the nature of the video to a documentary style rather than a diary / blog style. Anyway it's all good so I guess "Stay Calm and Carry" on is appropriate.
BTW yes- small episodes not one big one hour event.
I remember camelot be nothing more than a cooler than your average park. Then it just got bigger and bigger. The jousting knights and live entertainment was pretty amazing to see. Pretty sad to see Parkhall like it is today
Thanks for all your research and hard work on this Darren. It made me a bit emotional watching, but also brought back lots of good memories.
I loved this place as a kid, The tower of terror got me over my fear of inverted roller-coasters due to the loop being hidden in the Tower and not finding out until I rode it.
Darren, this must be the first time when you did photo fades that the old and new were both in color. Sad that the park closed, people today spend WAY too much time indoors sitting. Without places like this to go to kids find a way of getting in some sort of mischief. All the people that paid a visit Camelot will always have the memories. Thanks for your time and effort you put into your work. Breaks over, back to work for me....... lol
Yes I think that's true actually. It's normally black and white. Never thought of that.
Knocking it out the park as usual.
*Pun absolutely intended.
Your visuals and photo fades are easily the best of this type on UA-cam.
Much appreciated!
I’ve got some really fond memories of this theme park. My last visit there was in 2012 and I remember it was a lovely sunny day. It always blows my mind how you can go to somewhere and regularly visit, yet one day you don’t realise it will be your last. It’s sad.
I often think that about things so very true.
Darren, I absolutely love your video content. As an enthusiast I love the theme park and amusement park content, mixed with history and fascinating information. Your other historical content is also very interesting and highlights great places to go explore and visit. Yet again, the photo fades add massively to the content and are done so well. There’s an air of sadness, for something we’ve lost and will never get back. Thank you and keep it up. There really isn’t anything else like this on UA-cam 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I went there as a teen in the mid 90's - probably near its peak. Theres always something really eerie about an abandoned theme park imo - you can almost hear the laughter and screams echoing around....
I grew up going here every summer with friends we used to take the back door into the theme park, it's a shame it closed as would of loved to taken my child
Nicely done sir.
Thanks Jon. Big fan of yours too. We need to do something together. You were literally 200yards from me a few weeks ago.
Enjoyable article but at the same time quite sad. No doubt the site of many happy family memories over the last 30+ years.
Amazing video mate, loved how you managed to line up the new footage with the old pictures, must have taken ages to do that !! God I miss this park loads, it was the UK’s best “themed” theme park
Yes it was! Thanks mate. I thought you would like this one. Did you see the ultimate one too? Plenty more parks to come.
Keep your videos coming i worked at butlins at Ayrshire for 3 years a would love to see you do a video on that place now
That was really interesting, and I loved how you faded the old photos over the current view, to compare the two. 👍👍
Thanks so much! A regular feature in my vids.
Cracking photo fades as always, although the most powerful bit for me was the time-lapse style Google Earth changes over the years. Interesting to see the woodlands properly fighting back in the central valley!
The photo at 2:20 if I remember would have been taken from the top of a child-friendly, catterpillar coaster if it existed at the time, because this one and a log-flume was there in the exact corner, by mid to late 2000's, flume being possibly behind the photographer, jousting ring would have been to their right, at the other end, earlier in the 00's it was used more I guess, when I was 10 or under, but not used by 2010/11 when I went there in last year or two of secondary school, just sat there for lunch I guess.
Cant exactly remember going on that ferris-wheel but it was there when I went around. The line on the slope behind it was for the dragon-ride, going round this hollow, with some wooden ramp/path leading past it's station, just behind the jousting ring and the swing ship that mum reminds me of, having had to accompany me on when very young. Though there was some stuff behind this hollow, past the dragon station, excalibur, ghost train and extra go-carts maybe?
Thank you Darren for another fascinating video, of seeing Camelot theame park before and after. I have never been but to see what would have been there was exciting, and when you had the drone up, you could imagine the buildings a shame it had to go
Wow spent plenty of time and money here ...such a pity to see it so sad..
I remember getting a smelly finger there in 90s when in my early teens. on a school trip. met a lass from Cumbria. Aaaaarrrr the memories.
I never went here. Sad to see but great video yet again. The old pictures and videos really make it easier to understand then and now
It's just sad to see these places empty/derelict.. we really are a throwaway society.
Great video. I worked at Camelot from 2001-2005 but I learned a few things I didn’t know about the history of the park. It’s sad to see it in such a sorry state. Hopefully some plans for the site will eventually come to fruition.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was lucky enough to live round the corner in Coppull and could walk to Camalot from my house with my friend in the late 80s early 90s. We used to get discounted tickets because we lived so close. The Beast is still my favourite Dark ride. Tower of Terror is where you would find us all at the end of the day getting off the ride and then running round to get straight back on again. Great memories.
Cheers darren that brought back some memories
I loved granada studios. I wander if you could ever get permission to film how it is now.thatvwouls be amazing
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Amazing video, great memories. Just a sad loss
Fantastic video that so sad see old memories whoever remember it
it only seems like yesterday when as coach driver was there every other week some seasons
This will be Lightwater's fate if they persist on stripping it bare and focusing on the u-12 market.
Yeah I can see it too
Absolutely bloody brilliant. Nothing more to say.
If you go back earlier in time, 1970s the site was used as a horse jumping arena and some scenes from the movie , International velvet was filmed there. I was a child film extra so I remember it well.
Ahh no way! Absolutely loved this place being so local to us here in Leyland. 🙌🏼
They don't replace the fun...
Love all your videos Darren. They are very informative and we love the way you fade out your photos so we can compare how it looks now to how it used to look. We watched this with great sadness as we have very fond memories of Camelot. My mum loved watching the jousting tournaments and our favourite ride was the Dragon Flyer. So sad to see it all gone 😢. What were Chorley Council thinking refusing planning permission which may have saved the park! It wasn't as if it was going to affect the town centre and all they are now left with now is ugly wasteland. Shame on them. Keep up the good work Darren. Looking forward to seeing your next videos. 👏👍
Great part 1 Darren as all your videos are. I'm not a million miles from there and visited the park more than once as a young boy. Is the car rally track still there? As a teenager to my twenties in the mid nineties when I was driving myself we used to drive up there to watch the rally cars events. Think it's route was over the back of the park?? Also Park hall was a night club!!
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I've finally watched all Adventure Me videos so now I'm up to date. As the series shifts from railway lines to old theatres and theme parks it's farewell for now to "abutments" but we still have "retaining walls".
Plenty more coming, trust me! Out filming some today.
Sad that it’s not there anymore. 😢
Fantastic how you merged the drone shot with the Google earth pic at the end..Great video
My partner just said you talk like a northern Captain Kirk, Now I cant unhear that :)
Whaaaaat!! I'll have to change my narrative voice lol
I love your videos so much! You tell the stories so well and your graphics, camera work, and transitions are fantastic! It's brilliant to watch your channel grow from strength to strength.
Thank you so much!
Darren, you never cease to enthral us. That was so interesting. The before and after photos so nostalgic. How sad it is all gone but thanks to you, the memory is kept alive. Look forward to next instalment. Thank you.
The Beast 😃 forgot about that. Went many times as a youth in late 80’s early 90’s. Shame it isn’t there now as my 5 year old wants to go to a theme park that isn’t the pleasure beach again (as we live right near it) , but anything else is a fair drive away and she hates long journeys. 😅 I remember the first time I went as a small kid and the rain hammered down all day. I remember going on the caterpillar that day . Went on it just after the lockdowns at gullivers world. . They were only allowed a few people on it at once. They had to fill it with sandbags to make the weight up and give it a big push start to get it going
Great nostalgic video Darren. I never visited Camelot’s but it’s so sad to see a place in decline which would have once generated many many happy memories for lots of people when it was in its hey day
Glad you enjoyed it
While I haven’t visited i have ridden the raft slides when they got Re-Located to Gulliver’s Kingdom. Only 2 out of the 3 though
I have so many good memories of this park. I remember an attraction called "Roller-Quest" in the entertainment complex. I pushed through all the other kids to scan the sensors on the wall and achieved the daily high score and was given a complimentary baseball cap from one of the staff. The tower of terror was an amazing ride for a 10/11 year old, I remember falconry displays near the castle that surrounded the loop of the coaster. The live jousting tournaments were absolutely epic. So sad when I heard about the closure as I would love to come here as an adult. Probably my favourite theme park.
I can remember a dragon in a cave, a rope bridge in the trees , barbers shop quartet, castle dining hall with minstrel telling a story and lights on each character.
I remember the dragon in the cave. It was a rather camp sounding Puff the Magic Dragon. You used to push a button to get it to talk.
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Watching these theme parks, I keep thinking of scooby doo episodes 😂
such memories
I went here on a school trip in 1996 when I was 11yo. I have a photo of my on the log flum somwhere too
It's sad that camalot is not around anymore even tho i only went once i still miss it i wish i'd gone to camalot a lot more.
I never got to visit this theme park ether but I do remember it always being advertised.
I use to work for a bakery in Blackpool sunrise and 1 of my daily deliveries was Camelot this was around 1987 I can stil picture the car park at the front it was a busy place, Love watching your videos very knowledgeable keep up the Great work.
Your photofades are brilliant. What a shame about the site. It's amazing how quickly nature takes over.
Interesting series of videos 👍🏼😊. Never visited the park itself, but stayed at Park Hall hotel in 1991 for a course at work and my room overlooked the caterpillar rollercoaster. Very sad to see it in a derelict state now 🙁
been loads of times darren always remember the ducks hanging around the food area,
Yeah for some strange reason, I remember the ducks too. Would you change anything in the video so far?
@@AdventureMe no darren i am more than happy with things as billy joel sang lol
Thank you that was very interesting. Look forward to next week. It just shows how nature will take over any site that’s left abandoned for awhile
Very true!
We went every year sometimes multiple times a year. We thought it had closed tho early 2000.
If I had known it was still open until 2012 we would have for sure went.
Was always a place I thought I would take my kids, alas not to be.
I honestly wish it still survived or something similar comes back.
Every week you post, I think you'll never do better but you prove me wrong every time. Great stuff, a pleasure to watch.
Wow, thanks!
Can't wait for Part 2
Another major hit the park took was the introduction of the minimum wage, I worked there in 95 or 96 and ride staff was paid £2.50 an hour and I'm pretty sure concession staff got less, so in 1998 when the minimum wage came in everyone got as least a £0.70 an hour rise as most staff were students.
Great video! Loved The Ultimate! Such a unique coaster, being so close to the ground made it feel fast. Such a shame LWV made the decision to scrap it, totally the wrong decision in my opinion, nothing to draw in the crowds now, can't see the park lasting for long, it will be another Camelot before we know it.
I have very fond memories of this theme park, growing up as a kid it was my favourite and I remember going with my primary school as an end of school trip ❤️ so incredibly heartbreaking to see what little remains left 🏰
Just a pity it wasn't a few miles further west.... It'd have been in west Lancashire council area not Chorley.. west lancs are far more focussed on long term plans and attracting investment.. Chorley just seem to like saying no . Exactly Why there's nothing built on it now .
I went twice as a kid, 2010 and 2011.
Honestly can’t remember much but pretty sure there was a water ride i loved
darren ., you were so close to wigan , just 20 mins away from 20 bridges. best wishes , from nick and tracy
Only ever looked round this place from the carpark about 20 years ago so this is very cool to see.
Used to go here every year on high school trips because it was only an hour drive from school. Great memories, Shame to see it close down but it was never that busy towards the end.