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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: General Discussion

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What's that between the Dipper and the theatre?
 
Dipper...Extended it in 1936, made drops steeper, and increased length to fit in with south park expansion.
River Caves...just above the dipper turn round after the lift hill, the entrance was on more of an angle to the main path originally, diagonally facing the south pier, which opened before the Caves.
Good spot our Rick.
Across from the Caves frontage there is a rooftop waterfall effect I think, like the one that used to be on the Southport caves.
Cracking photo.
 
Definitely some sort of car ride where grand prix is now. You can see the cars in this close up.

I can't find any mention of a ride like that in the 1930s anywhere on the interweb.
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Amazing to think that the beach came all the way up to the train line.

Photo from 1920 with switch back and velvet coaster. The park changed a lot over the next 15 years or so.

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The beach used to go all the way to Clifton on the edge of Preston shakey!
And dippy, there used to be a walking footpath ford between Hesketh Bank and Freckleton, all the old paths to the Ribble are still there, so you could walk home after a few pints too many.
 
Another fine photo Rick...
The moat protected the auto museum that was on the site (now skyforce).
It was one of those bubble buildings, with twin airlock doors at each end to keep the inner pressure up.
The door systems were pretty big, and were dragged across the walkway to become the Beast simulator ride building when the bubble tent was removed, after a few brief years.
The moat was there to stop people popping the bubble tent for fun.
Only a foot or so deep, but the water was wet, cold and a bit slimy.
I only fell in drunk the once.
The other times I was sober.
 
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I think you can narrow it down to 1935.

Nash is there (opened 1935) and Dipper is still the original layout. (new layout in 1936)

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Well spotted. Nerd of the day award right there. Totally forgot about Nash, I was thinking mainly of Rollercoaster opening in 1933 and 1935 being the last year of the original Dipper layout. Surprised you even noticed your least favourite woody in that pic!
 
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