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Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach: General Discussion

Error said:
I suppose because I live there I see it in a different light to people who visit.

Like Blackpool, go deeper into the town and it gets pretty rough, both in people and sights.
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I think that's true in any sort of tourist hot spot - the nature of the seasonal, low wage employment has big effects. Couple that with the social problems you typically find in British seaside resorts, the two things aren't entirely unrelated in the first place.

Friends of ours who live in Orlando and Vegas say similar things. As a day tripper or holidaymaker you don't typically look behind the facades, unless you really make the effort to do so. If you want to, you can remain largely ignorant to it.
 
I learnt very quickly in Blackpool that once you go maybe 2/3 streets up past the front it’s like being in a different area. I didn’t find Great Yarmouth as bad but I haven’t explored that are as much.
 
Large parts of Blackpool, a few streets back, are really nice suburban properties.
It is only "between the piers" a few streets back that is pretty nasty.
Bits further out are very nice indeed...lots of nice houses in Lytham and Stanley Park.
Yarmouth is generally a nicer dungheap than Blackpool.
My best mate is East Angular, he refuses to call it Great.
Love them both.
 
According to the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 (page 16), they both are in the top 25. Blackpool is 6th, Yarmouth is 25th.

Of the 10 most deprived Lower-Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs), 2nd - 9th place are in Blackpool (Jaywick is 1st, Anfield is 10th) - same link, page 5.
 
I've never been to Great Yarmouth, but I have been to Blackpool, and the bits I've been in seem perfectly nice! I will say, Blackpool is definitely a very different sort of seaside to the ones I was accustomed to visiting; my childhood seaside was the Pembrokeshire coast, and places around there like Tenby have almost quite a rural feel, whereas Blackpool feels very large-scale and commercialised. Not necessarily saying that they're any better or worse than one another, but they definitely feel very different to one another. I should probably note that the furthest I walked along the promenade was to South Pier to ride the coaster, and we didn't leave the promenade at all. The bits we drove past looked perfectly nice, however!
Rick said:
Friends of ours who live in Orlando and Vegas say similar things. As a day tripper or holidaymaker you don't typically look behind the facades, unless you really make the effort to do so. If you want to, you can remain largely ignorant to it.
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I've been to Orlando numerous times over the years, and while the touristy bits look quite well off, there are definitely some distinctly poorer areas once you've left International Drive.
 
Rick said:
Friends of ours who live in Orlando and Vegas say similar things. As a day tripper or holidaymaker you don't typically look behind the facades, unless you really make the effort to do so. If you want to, you can remain largely ignorant to it.
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When I was with my Mum in Orlando last year, we saw some of the suburban neighbourhoods on a bus back from Universal (neither of us can drive) and whilst neither of us felt unsafe, it was a real eye opener to see the parts of Orlando majority of tourists don't get to see.
 
RoyJess said:
Do you live in Gt Yarmouth?

If yes, I'm surprised that you haven't seen Jess and me about, especially during the summer fireworks
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I do yes, I used to work in the Sainsburys in Yarmouth for 10 years. Now I commute to Norwich to work,
I wont be surprised if I've served you at some point during that time.
 
GY may be a sh¡thole, but its an unthreatening sh¡thole, unlike Blackpool*.
Way back in '08, when me and the missus did our "100 coasters in a year" challange, our weekend in Yarmouth was easilly the most entertaining of our whole year!

... Though that may have been heavily weighted by me and her, on our own, beating a large group of German schoolkids at laser tag. ;)

*I actually LIKE Blackpool, but I totally see why most don't ;)
 
John said:
I feel I'm missing something here, has anyone suggest GYPB's Roller Coaster is likely to be removed?
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Sorry I should have said a few years ago I heard someone say it's going to cost a lot to refurbish the ride so apparently, they're replacing the rotting wood in sections!
 
Just leafing through another box of 'junk' (her words, not mine).

In the 1994 leaflet for GY Pleasure Beach, one of the main photos is a four car Schwarzkopf Speed Racer type train. I don't recall anything of that type at the park back then, nor is anything listed on RCDB. Anyone got any clues? Stock image? Cancelled project? Or indeed something the internet has forgotten?

Anyone around much at the time @RoyJess ?
 
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