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What about Gulliver's, Matlock... Derbyshire..? Nope, nothing to see here. Sent from my E6683 using Tapatalk

I do love those photos :) I've read two Blackpool histories looking and can't find it mentioned. I suspect it's something to do with the railways or gas works. It's a major building to not be mentioned - so that suggests something industrial. Was probably demolished during the road building...

Ho ho ho - as would the names of the "speciality groups" making it a place of pilgrimage :)

And still each time offer less than the year before while they're doing it. It's cunning. Next year they'll say that they're only open for an hour a week and then backtrack to four hours a week and everyone will feel as though they've listened and are giving good value again!

I do love how people immediately get their hackles raised by the mention of Apple :P The thing is, only a tiny proportion of people want to personalise things. Most people want a phone that is familiar and just works. They want to feel comfort in quality (whether real or perceived). This is...

It's not just about the waterproofing though, it's about reducing the size of the phone. If you have to think about a replacement battery, you can lose the design flexibility. You need waterproofing between battery and phone gubbins. You need (in phone terms) huge connectors between the...

Almost completely disagree. I think people buy iPhone because they give them the usability they want. And if Samsung's edge screen isn't style over functionality, I don't know what is. I see ios as the natural replacement for the old Nokias. It's the interface people learned on, so they...

Absolutely do not disagree with this. They should have been quicker on the press release and handled it better. To defend them a little though, they're a really good amusement park business owner - not so good on the PR front. I'd rather they spent more time being good at what they're meant to...

I think that this is getting stupidly off topic, so to keep it on topic, I believe that Amanda is also made of concentrated gherkin.

One of MMF's friends last week forgot to order his burger without gherkin - he hates gherkin. He took it off. I said, "you can't do that, the burger is now tainted with gherkin flavour. It's all the burger will taste of" He said, "I haven't noticed" I said, "well, you must like gherkin then" He...

He learned everything from me!!! :P

Lost a world class coaster, got a crap woodie - it's like the inverse of Blackpool's 2018 :p Okay... It's rubbish, but it's pretty much the only way to deal with these things. Let's just tackle one thing. BPB had two options. Announce and demolish or demolish and announce. For any major...

To be fair, back then it was pay per ride at Blackpool - so stopping running a ride would have cost them ;)

Not really. I'm not defending BPB as such, but... They put together a press release saying exactly what they want to say. They owe nothing to individuals (the customer isn't always right and you can't please all of the people all of the time) and, well... It's just the best way to handle it...

I'm just saving this in a careful place for the winter Alton do a Blackpool and remove Nemesis without warning anybody ;)

Yes and it's still ruining amusement parks :(

Absolutely doesn't. I didn't even touch on how Granada took over the Forte group - who were responsible for close Belle Vue in Manchester LOL The UK amusement industry (apart from what we have today) was a catalogue of disasters from the early 70's. Mostly due to dodgy dealings and takeovers...

It's kind of quite a long and complicated history, but essentially. It opened in the late 80's with quite a bang and without any massive amounts of competition. Alton Towers at the time wasn't really THAT much and Drayton Manor was still finding a place. So locally, it was okay in terms of...

Wow. Enough signatures to half fill Thorpe or Alton on a single day? So if those people are willing to commit to say, going for about a quarter of all opening days of the park each year - that would at least show some sign of potential commercial success. THAT would have people listening...

Rumour has it they've arranged a load of firewood from Blackpool to set the fires... Too soon?