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Morecambe Frontierland site.

I bung in 50p and want a place on the board. Thanks ;)
As for the site itself the council will do one of three things. A) cheap funfair from showman B) Luxury houses C) leave it empty.
 
If the Eden Project goes ahead they will lose a lot of event space that they use for funfairs and various festivals. The area that was the Dome and Bubbles is pretty grim these days.

Suspect some of it will become car parking of some kind.

Was it ever called Pleasureland @rob666 ?
 
OK Rick...subtle.
Frontierland you blithering idiot!
First time for everything, edit topic title button!
Edit...I can remember it becoming Frontierland, but what was it called before?
I even did the other two fairs in Morecambe...Bare Park (before Wombles Burrow/Blobbyland) and the Winter Gardens one.
Double edit...Originally West End Amusement Park.
 
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rob666 said:
OK Rick...subtle.
Frontierland you blithering idiot!
First time for everything, edit topic title button!
Edit...I can remember it becoming Frontierland, but what was it called before?
I even did the other two fairs in Morecambe...Bare Park (before Wombles Burrow/Blobbyland) and the Winter Gardens one.
Double edit...Originally West End Amusement Park.
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I think Frontierland may have been called 'Morecambe Pleasure Park' at some point. Or maybe that was somewhere else in Morecambe. I only say that because I saw that name on one of those old round pebbledash bins that used to be everywhere. The bin in question was probably spotted in Southport Pleasureland. I'll have a photo of it somewhere. Yes I am that man, sad enough to take a photo of an amusement park bin.

Speaking of which, one of the B&Bs on the back roads behind BPB has one of the old Beaver Creek honey pot bins out the front. Anyone else done any bin spotting lately? I thought not.

EDIT: I was right about that bin! From a certain encyclopedia: "Frontierland originally operated as West End Amusement Park, Fun City and Morecambe Pleasure Park from 1906 to 1986 before being transformed into Frontierland for the 1987 season, in an attempt to defeat dwindling visitor numbers."
 
So Pleasure Park to Pleasureland wasn't that far from the mark.
Frontierland was the first wristband place at the seaside locally.
Texas Tornado all day...my first wristband...bit of coloured string and a waxy sticker.
Those were the days.
 
My good lady is watching "The Bay"...
I spotted the precise spot where I got my last souvenir...a metal fence post with "blob"...
And now, the poor demolition bloke won't get his clearance bonus because they found a twenty year old stiff on the site, bullet to the back of the head.
I didn't do it, and I didn't spot a mouldy stiff when I had a wander a few years ago.
Honest.
 
Lancaster City Council are again seeking developers for the Frontierland site. They're holding an investment event at the start of October.
The council wants bids from commercial leisure, hospitality and mixed-use developers or consortia (with identified lead organisation) to promote and develop a comprehensive leisure and hospitality-led development that will help capitalise on Eden Project North and the estimated 3,700 peak daily visitors. Source
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So they want a leisure development.
There is an opportunity to broaden Morecambe’s offer, help attract new visitors and convert day trippers into overnight stays.
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I don't see how, for example, a bowling alley could achieve the above. Interesting Councilor Joanne Ainscough recently said this;
"We've just done the public consultation and the majority of people want a site that is a leisure site. We have done an expression of interest and the majority of developers came forward with hotels and housing, and that's not really the inspiration we want. We want something that's more exciting. If somebody came along with a really brilliant idea for a fairground, why not? But it has to be something that gives the council some money back on its investment but also gives something for both visitors and locals." Source
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I know her words effectively mean nothing, but it got me thinking - could the site be redeveloped into a park with rides; a new Frontierland with modern attractions whilst playing on nostalgia? 100% of the land that Frontierland took up remains undeveloped from looking at Google earth. I ask those more knowledgeable than me, is there any possibility of this scenario, or should we expect a cinema with housing above it?
 
The park failed because only older people tend to visit Morecambe these days...the park flopped on attendance alone, it had been invested in over time.
Can't see someone setting themselves up to fail again.
Small FEC or similar I imagine.
 
James Watkins said:
I know her words effectively mean nothing, but it got me thinking - could the site be redeveloped into a park with rides; a new Frontierland with modern attractions whilst playing on nostalgia? 100% of the land that Frontierland took up remains undeveloped from looking at Google earth. I ask those more knowledgeable than me, is there any possibility of this scenario, or should we expect a cinema with housing above it?
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Looking at Google Maps, the site whilst quite a bit has been redeveloped for retail, there is some room for a small seaside park.

I'd say an Arcade (possibly bowling too), A Spinning Wild Mouse and Flume from Reverchon, a Wacky Worm and some fairground flats and it could be a moderate success.

It doesn't need to be particularly ambitious for use as a park.
 
It would fail, as the old park did.
I loved Frontierland, though I didn't like it for being my very first "pop" park...the silly queues were instant!
Morecambe has a ten week season, you just can't make money out of that with a long lease...the other forty odd weeks the place really is a ghost town.
It only exists as a student dormitory for Lancaster.
Eden would make a difference, but it doesn't really attract young uns outside the holidays.
 
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