The RHYL thread

[MANC]

me and Neet sometimes drive over to Towyn. Those Caravan parks are just like council estates tbh. They mite have always felt like that but when I was a kid I didnt see that. I just loved the place, wished that I lived there etc

Rhyl is deffo a shithole now. Its such a shame and sad to see a once vibrant and successful town just decline into the ghostly shell as it now is. The fair has been bulldozed to the ground Blackpool isnt too far behind either tbh. It still has something maybe, but its nothing compared to what it once had! Last time I went I was shocked to see how its back streets are full of decay. Many of those busy well kept guest houses have gone and are now just cheap bedsits with dirty net curtains and boarded up doorways.

 

[Deleted member 6141]

guess where?

alfie had been asking about places i used to go when i was a kid n that so we took him to rhyl on sunday.it was like a ghost town (i know it's the depths of winter but still..) the suncentre is still there but was closed so we had fish n chips n went home. i was looking for pics of rhyl back in the day to show him n a link to this thread came up on google,hence my post on a dead old thread.

im affraid Morecambe went the same way, we used to go nearly every week when we were 12/13 ish had railriders tickets so it was 35p return, you could get a £3 band for the pleasure beach and there was the outdoor fun pool, even had the worlds biggest big wheel. theres nothing there now, its been cleaned up alot over the last few years, but not a patch on what it used to be

some of my best childhood memories are of morcambe, especially the funhouse and its maahoosive vertical drop slide

 

[steveod]

some of my best childhood memories are of morcambe, especially the funhouse and its maahoosive vertical drop slide [/QUOTE]

Mine too, our local labour club used to have a day out to Frontierland every year.They would put on about 5 or 6 double Decker buses and when you got there the mums and dads would go the pubs and the kids would all go the fair.Everybody knew eachother so it was safe cause everyone was looking out for each other.

 

[leaky]

guess where?


some of my best childhood memories are of morcambe, especially the funhouse and its maahoosive vertical drop slide

and that other slide that fooked your back in the Kamikaze was on the right as you went in and went round a banked corner

also catching crabs from the walled off boating pool in the sea

i can remember watching the Punks with their faces in their glue bags too as you went up the 1st hill on the Cyclone, and i think Morecambe was the last place i saw a speedway, (why did they vanish from the travelling fairs)

heres a good link i just found on the decline of Morecambe How the west was lost - Morecambe and District News - The Visitor

 

[Deleted member 6141]

and that other slide that fooked your back in the Kamikaze was on the right as you went in and went round a banked corner

also catching crabs from the walled off boating pool in the sea

i can remember watching the Punks with their faces in their glue bags too as you went up the 1st hill on the Cyclone, and i think Morecambe was the last place i saw a speedway, (why did they vanish from the travelling fairs)

heres a good link i just found on the decline of Morecambe How the west was lost - Morecambe and District News - The Visitor

nice piece.it makes me wonder what might of been if they had invested a bit more.

yeeah the kamikaze was ace too,didnt it go back in on itself so you freefalled a bit? (thats how i remember it anyway:S )

most of the speedway rides were converted to waltzers (funnily enuff i was reading about em the other day) more popular i guess. or maybe down to H&S, they'd be fitted with seatbelts n allsorts nowadays.

 

[Barrie Jay]

catching crabs

That reminds of the time, err, better not.

 

[leaky]

nice piece.it makes me wonder what might of been if they had invested a bit more.

yeeah the kamikaze was ace too,didnt it go back in on itself so you freefalled a bit? (thats how i remember it anyway:S )

most of the speedway rides were converted to waltzers (funnily enuff i was reading about em the other day) more popular i guess. or maybe down to H&S, they'd be fitted with seatbelts n allsorts nowadays.

yep i think H&S would be probable, i remember when we used to stand against the bars on the outsides, and my m8, had just paid and whilst putting his change away lost his balance and flew off lucky it was where the steps were and he flew down them onto the grass. we used to stand on the very top bar holding onto the motorbike bars and ducking under the beams :| bit hairy on the last ride when they bumped the speed up.

yes the Kamikazi did come back in on itselfe, we used to go head 1st down the hell slide when no one was looking, and sometimes your legs came right over your neck and nearly break your back...

 

[Deleted member 6141]

headfirst backwards used to sort the men out from the boys. wouldnt dream of doing it now tho.we used to push ourselves away from the slide at the top so we cud freefall down it too. ive looked everywhere for pics but cant find any. hope to dig some out from my ma's @w/end. this is the closest i cud find

the big slide @peabody's blackpool.
nowhere near as big as the funcity one but it gives an idea to those who don't know what we're talkin about

 

[BOD]

remember the Hell slide at Lightwater Valley