New Brighton Big Dipper

[bigpab]

Does Anyone remember and/or have any pictures of the Big dipper that used to be in New Brighton?

[ChrisGeorge]

Does Anyone remember and/or have any pictures of the Big dipper that used to be in New Brighton?

Hello bigpad

See "1951. Miniature Railway and the Big Dipper. New Brighton" at
http://www.20thcenturyimages.co.uk/trolleyed/4/21/1860/index.htm

Chris

[Ged]

Wasn't the big dipper at New Brighton a figure of 8? Here are some of the other attractions.

[drone_pilot]

God That ferris wheel looks a bit rickity, now i look back at it we were a bit brave to go on it back then.

[bigpab]

Thanks guys and yes it was definetly rickity to say the least!!

[ChrisGeorge]

Wasn't the big dipper at New Brighton a figure of 8? Here are some of the other attractions.

Hi Ged

Inspired by the photograph you posted. :PDT11

Nothing to Hide

The couple neck high
on a rickety ferris wheel
above the muddy beach,
the forsaken fairground;

no one else to brave
the Tunnel of Love, gamble
a shot for a Valentine bear.
The gondola sways

in the New Brighton breeze,
lips, tongues, hands, swarm:
intrepid explorers, for
a lifetime or just now,

dangling in mid-air.

Christopher T. George

[john]

New Brighton also had a tower like Blackpool and cable cars, Imonly know this as my grandmother had a newspaper cutting.

[phredd]

John
The tower at New Brighton, (Tower Ballroom) was taken down before my time on earth through lack of maintenance my Mam told me, and she was NEVER wrong :lol:
Dont know what year it was but I think sometime in the mid 1920's.

The Ferris wheel and the Roller rink where two of my fav., spots. Must have been crazy to go on the wheel them days.

Happy days long gone but not forgotten. 6pence pocket money per week = 1 penny return from West Derby Rd to Pier Head, bunk onto the ferry or pay 2 pence return and 4 pence to spend, Oh we were rich them days :)

Phredd

[ladyhawk]

Thank you for the memories guy's:handclap:

[Ged]

Pics of New Brighton and the Tower Ballroom can be found here:

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.new-brighton.co.uk/tower_ballroom_img/towervale.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.new-brighton.co.uk/tower.html&h=274&w=185&sz=10&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=iJRc0aGiu6bNQM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=76&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnew%2Bbrighton%2Btower%2Bballroom%26g bv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

[sheilsy]

John
The tower at New Brighton, (Tower Ballroom) was taken down before my time on earth through lack of maintenance my Mam told me, and she was NEVER wrong :lol:
Dont know what year it was but I think sometime in the mid 1920's.

The Ferris wheel and the Roller rink where two of my fav., spots. Must have been crazy to go on the wheel them days.

Happy days long gone but not forgotten. 6pence pocket money per week = 1 penny return from West Derby Rd to Pier Head, bunk onto the ferry or pay 2 pence return and 4 pence to spend, Oh we were rich them days :)

Phredd

So New Brighton has had two towers then? Because one burnt down in 1969

[drone_pilot]

So New Brighton has had two towers then? Because one burnt down in 1969

The original "Tower" stood on top of the Tower Ballrooms, The "Tower" was taken down year's and year's ago, the Tower Ballroom which was the base burned down in 1969.

[drone_pilot]

New Brighton also had a tower like Blackpool and cable cars, Imonly know this as my grandmother had a newspaper cutting.

I remember riding to the top of the tower Ballroom in the cable car in the mid to late 50's.

[ChrisGeorge]

The original "Tower" stood on top of the Tower Ballrooms, The "Tower" was taken down year's and year's ago, the Tower Ballroom which was the base burned down in 1969.

New Brighton Tower was modelled after Eiffel's famous towers in Paris and Blackpool. It was demolished in 1919 as being unsafe, although, as you say, the building below the tower, which contained the ballroom, remained until 1969 when it burned and was demolished. The Beatles famously played the Tower Ballroom in their early years.

See http://www.merseyside.net/newbrighton/Pages/tower.htm

Chris

[Ross08]

It's hard to believe these days when I'm in New Brighton that the town was as much a thriving resort as Blackpool.

The New Brighton Tower was in fact bigger than the one at Blackpool.

It's good to see that work has started on the redevelopment of the Floral Pavilion. So far, the theatre and the adjacent gardens have been cleared.

I hope that this will encourage further redevelopment in the town because apart from Riverside Bowl & Lazer Quest and the Bright Spot arcade and funfair, there is very little left in New Brighton.