Does Anyone remember and/or have any pictures of the Big dipper that used to be in New Brighton?
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Does Anyone remember and/or have any pictures of the Big dipper that used to be in New Brighton?
Hello bigpadQuote:
Originally Posted by bigpab
See "1951. Miniature Railway and the Big Dipper. New Brighton" at
http://www.20thcenturyimages.co.uk/t...1860/index.htm
Chris
Wasn't the big dipper at New Brighton a figure of 8? Here are some of the other attractions.
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.
Thanks guys and yes it was definetly rickity to say the least!!
Hi GedQuote:
Originally Posted by 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
New Brighton also had a tower like Blackpool and cable cars, Imonly know this as my grandmother had a newspaper cutting.
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
Thank you for the memories guy's:handclap:
Pics of New Brighton and the Tower Ballroom can be found here:
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...%3Den%26sa%3DG
So New Brighton has had two towers then? Because one burnt down in 1969Quote:
Originally Posted by phredd
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by sheilsy
I remember riding to the top of the tower Ballroom in the cable car in the mid to late 50's.Quote:
Originally Posted by john
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by drone_pilot
See http://www.merseyside.net/newbrighton/Pages/tower.htm
Chris
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.