The Abandoned History of Pleasure Island Cleethorpes | Expedition Extinct
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- Опубликовано: 1 мар 2018
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Join us this time on Expedition Extinct as we look at the closed history of the Pleasure Island Family Theme Park In Cleethorpes, England.
Opening in 1993, the park closed in 2016 after 23 years of operation. Just another small theme park in the UK unable to make it in today's industry.
The park will be holding an auction on March 7th and 8th 2018 and will auction off the remaining assets from the park. If you would like to look at the auction lots or bid yourself you can find it here.
www.bidonthis.co.uk/catalogue...
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Special thank you to James at Smart Productions LTD for allowing the use of the interviews and some park footage used in the video.
Also thank you to Theme Park Worldwide for recording the history of this now extinct park as well as all other content providers. Find them at / themeparkworldwide
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I spent most of my life going to this theme park, with little to no changes made in the last 10 years, it's spiralled so quickly because people tired of its lack of new anything ever and when they start charging more for entry and the rides feel like they could fall apart at any second, it's a recipe for disaster, not to mention the fact that the majority of grounds staff looked between 16-18...
Don't get me wrong, I loved pleasure Island and it was upsetting when it closed... However, its was obvious why.
No Thanks I went there like every week in summer
Most of your life!!!!
It’s sad , but it reminds me a lot of flamingo land now , flamingo land is ran down and old it’s a bit like pleasure island but the new coaster can save it , pleasure island never got anything , other than that flat ride in 10 years , I’m sad that it shut but I can see why
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I held a season pass for this place, it was literally walking distance from home as a teen, I was even there with my cousin the day the gates didn't open and the staff were laid off (your facts were a little off, there wasn't a sign on the gates, there was literally no information until about an hour after the gates were supposed to open and that information came from the angry teenagers that'd just lost their jobs). It was a great place to go and hang out with friends for the day but the entrance fees kept rising and nothing new was being opened. By the time they actually brought some new rides to the park they'd killed off the trade with the costs.
p.s. you forgot The Gravatron, a simple ride yes but by far the crowd favorite and the one I miss most fondly.
p.s.s. NOW I'VE GOT THE TINKABOO THEME IN MY HEAD!
Thanks!
Oh my god the Gravitron was my faaaaavorite!! That takes me back a good 25 years!😅😅
God yeah the Gravitron was amazing! Not really anything like it at another theme park, although the stick to the walls idea can be found at fairgrounds
anybody remember that slide where you would sit in a potato sack and get stuck half way through 😂
why hate this place? it made so many memories
Helter Skelter?? Everyone of them you get stuck halfway and rest of timei so slow, could hardly call it a slide more like stop, start frustration.
😂😂😂 I remember that
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There was always a local urban legend that there's an elephant buried under the park from when it was a zoo.
My favourite was the listed merry go round in the big top
The Tinkaboo ride was one of the most sinister and freakiest rides I've ever been on. It was supposed to be all happy and cheery but it was just plain creepy, lol.
Chade Fallstar song still haunts me haha
Chade Fallstar nah it was alright
Is it me or was cat in the hat was on that ride
They had identical at pleasure wood hills they got rid of it tho sad
I loved it so much haha
This was my childhood place, literally 5 minutes away from me, so sad it’s gone now :/
was the owner Amanda Thompson who also owned Southport Pleasure Land And still owns blackpool pleasure beach
sorry but the worst loss the 1936 built Cyclone at Southport Amanda Thompson had it demolished in 2007
Anthony Mcdonnell Totally agree there, and with no real warning either. I was part of a campaign to save it back then. Very sadly she got her wicked way and left that park totally trashed. Don’t like her general business strategy, even at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Her last victim was the beloved wooden Wild Mouse. Haven’t been back there since. No respect for her punters IMO.
Im loving all your coverage of UK parks. Makes me think of my childhood. You should do Pontins in Hemsby, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Thank you, glad you enjoy the videos! I will add it to the list, and see if it is possible to do in the future. Thank you for the suggestions.
Having lived in Norfolk all my life,pontins was the best
I loved this park as a teenager! Never any queues 😂 would just stay on the ride and ride it over and over
It is a real shame the park is gone now spent most summers down in cleethorpes at the caravan site just next to pleasure island. So many memories their
As to create a new attraction!
Me too!! Was great when I was young 😊
I feel ya, I stayed on a caravan site next to it and I miss going there
I use to go to pleasure island as a kid but it's shut down now it looks empty and abandoned xxx
Holly Law horrible isn’t it، especially when you drive past 😟 xxx
This park was probably the only decent thing we had left here now we have nothing hardly
Hannah Rayton the bar was its best part just for the acts it haf
Well, looks like it wasn't the only decent thing, if people weren't showing/attending the theme park...
You still have the mighty Iron 💙💜💙💜
Went to this theme park loads when I was a kid. Looking at those drone shots makes me realise how small it actually was. Being there as a child it felt like it went on forever.
Considering it was both my local theme park and one of the first ones I ever remember going to (when I was about 5 or 6), I still miss Pleasure Island to this day. Even though it wasn't the biggest or most thrilling park out there, it definitely holds a special place in my heart!
I drive past pleasure island a lot and it's so sad because everything that is still there has been covered in graffiti and some of it has actually been burned down...!
I live nearby Pleasure Island and everytime I see it, I feel so depressed because the place had alot of history and potiental and it even brought in alot of people in Cleethorpes.
Get out there next week and pick up a sign or something to make a part of its memory live on!
Expedition Theme Park I've just visited the auction and took some decent photos that may be at interest to you.
Yes I would love to see them! Can you email me at sam@expeditionthemepark.com
@@ExpeditionThemePark I use to live in grimsby and every weekend me and my mates use to go there and when I was small me and my gran went I have so many memory's here and before my mum passed away she worked there for 3 seasons
That's life! So sad.
Many places that we enjoyed as a kid, close. Almost nothing last forever... Times continue to change and those parks and places suffer the consecuences and ultimately need to close.
Now Disney is still going strong, the most visited park in the world. So I can safely say they will last for veeeeery long (especially their 2 resorts in USA).
I knew when I clicked on this video it was gonna be in the U.K. "Cleethorpes" is such an English sounding name, I can't ever imagine a place in the US with that name being successful
I love American names for places, especially the ones ending in -ville 😅
As someone who grew up in Grimsby - 5 minutes drive from Cleethorpes - I can assure you that even in the UK, Cleethorpes isn't really successful either 😅
I don't know how many times I have watched this I still miss pleasure island a lot i really do a lot of people don't understand how much I miss it.
What about the Gravitron??? That ride was vomit inducing
Jeffro86uk what I loved that ride 😂
Omg was that the spinning one that stuck you to the walls? Loved that ride until a kid threw up on it and his sister yelled at him to swallow it 😭😭😭😰
Yeah, that one was quite trippy lol
4:32 AHHH mini mine train a classic! one of my fave rides and can remember going on it with my cousins. i remember everything that was said and all the views!
Fun fact, this site was used for a massive airsoft event called AI500 last year. Over 500 airsoft players fighting across this place is an amazing prospect, Wish I went.
Oh reaaaaaly need to try and find some videos of that. Sounds awesome
Tim O'Connell same but I was too late
I was walking past when this was happening, they kicked me out for some reason
I used to come here every year as a child as my nan had a caravan on the site nearby. The Tinkaboo Factory music still haunts my dreams, I can still hear now "There's lots of lovely things to eat at the Tinkaboo Fac-tor-ry." I remember one afternoon I was easting a slice of fruitcake back at the caravan and I dropped the plate and it cracked, and without missing a beat my nan, to the Tinkaboo tune went "There's lots of lovely plates to smash at nanny's ca-ra-van."
Good times man.
Fantastic Retrospective and really well put together.
To my mind it looked a fantastic park considering it wasn't one of the big boys.
The rides looked amazing.
It's always sad when these places close but it must be a treasured thing to be able to say you worked there!
I remember visiting Flamingo Land a few times with my family many years ago.
But there were no rides when it first opened
as a former employee of this theme park this was amusing to watch and brought back so many memories. the tinkaboo ride was my home away from home and yes tho's lil bloody creep ass sweet people where as creepy as they looked i still have nightmares lol
and that music >.
So much to do with why these places fail seems to be location. A lot of the theme areas, rides & throwbacks to it's time as a zoo that this park had seem very similar to Chessington's. Tommy Tinkaboos Sweet Adventure especially, that's the twin ride to the old Professor Burp's Bubbleworks that used to be at Chessington's.
In the days when I used to go Chessington's was small, some places were tatty & all of the animals really looked like they wanted to be somewhere else. They never had the biggest or best rides, haven't rebranded in over 30 years now, but one thing they always got right was the atmosphere & considering where they're located, on the doorstep of London with good local transport, means that they always have visitors all through the season. It wouldn't matter if you went in April, August, or October, there were always huge crowds. I guess not being so dependent on holiday crowds makes a huge difference.
I faintly remember Prof. Burp's ride... is it still there I wonder?
@@aliciapearson3120 How do you not know- Was in loads of media that it was closing way back on the 6th of September 2016
So a very long time ago now
It was a sad day when it closed. It was a good day out and always very clean.
Love cleethorpes come every year have done for nearly 20 years heart breaking theme park sold on great memories my kids came here one now 26 my son was very young never forget this awsome park who knows later may be theme park again
It's really sad the park is gone now. I live just down the road so I have to see it abandoned everyday. Lots of great memories though 😢💕
I got to ride on a boomerang for a test run, nonstop for at least 50 cycles years ago. It's really one of my ultimate favorite rides! And buss made my top 10 as well, the skylab. After much research, and my own ride time, I'm grateful to be alive! But growing up surviving Action Park, I've definitely used up my mulligans, and need to be super careful!
Me and mates once got the train from Doncaster and climbed over the fence into this place, rollercoasters for free! It was so fun it was prolbably 15 years ago when I was 15 😂
So Glad I Found Your Channel!
This Video has so much nostalgia for me!
And your UK videos are amazing!
Thankyou so much !!
Ive been watching all your content and I really enjoy it! I really like how you talk about the manufacturer names and models of the rides in this episode, Great work!
Thank you!
sigh, pleasure island was all my childhood, i went there every year and had the most amazing memories with my loved cousins. the fact that it shut down was heart breaking and sent me to long lasting tears. love you pleasure island xx
Fun fact: the ride “Terror Rack” used to be at Fantasy island near Skegness and was known as “Topsey Turvey”.
I think the biggest issue this park had was that most people who visited ended up being ill from all the gross flat rides they had 😆
I feel like all they needed to do was to sell a few of the flat rides and bring in a compact Log Flume and Wild Mouse style coaster, to really help make the park feel more complete!
i am pretty sure they did have a log flume in the past.
@@comicbookguygamecat I not 100% as I never visited every year, but I did visit as a child and as an adult, and I don't ever remember a log flume!
Memory’s With the whole family in that theme park some of the most treasured moments with my grandparents we used to go down every school holiday it was really nostalgic watching this video brought memories running to my head
I think you should do a theme park ride history for Snow White's Scary Adventures in the Magic Kingdom in Disney World
I will do! The next Expedition to start will be Expedition Magic Kingdom!
Can you do one on flamingo land
I know I'm two months late to this video but I would like to say thank you for doing a video on this park as it was an absolute staple of my childhood whilst growing up but I wasn't surprised with how it shut down as it was a bit meh when I got to my late teenage years but thank you for honouring it's memory with this video, I appreciate it honestly. Thank you.
Oh my pleasure. Thank you so much for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed it
The black water slide is now broken crushed into pieces
Allan Corner .....yep....... that was one of my fave 😭
I love that you mentioned Flambards. I’d love a history of that park since I live only 20 miles away now. As fun as the history of the US parks is I’m loving finding out about less known UK parks.
I have a few more UK parks planned in the future! Maybe Flambards will sneak in there. I do like that park
This place had a Rock-Afire Explosion and a New Rock-Afire Explosion and they tried to sell both of the shows but failed so they were sadly destroyed
I have so many amazing memories here, it is so sad to see this park close it's doors at least mcormacks is still open
Didn't realize this had closed we were at the caravan park next door in 2016 but didn't want to pay alton towers prices to visit again as nothing changed since previous visit!
Watching this video makes me sad and realise how much fun i had there every weekend, i used to stay at haven caravan sight every weekend with my nana and granddad, starting when i was 13years old stopped going when i was 18... I'm now 23 years old how time flies 😖😱😭
this park had by far the best flat ride collection
Me and my family spent so much time here when we stayed at Beachcomber over the road!We can still get in the gates now its closed but just too the pub called Mccormacs, had some great memories here, gutting it closed down🙄
When I'm older I will literally cry if I see "abandoned Alton Towers"
OliLovesUndertale I have never been but I cried when I saw abandoned pleasure island because that’s my childhood rotting away there
It will never be closed.
Same!! Alton towers is so much fun!
That is also the name of the now defunct pleasure island Night clubs at Disney springs
Yep!
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Yeah when I saw the title of the title of the video, I thought he was referring to that, as I'm Floridian who wouldn't have plans to visit Theme Parks even if he went to the UK.
I live in Grimsby and I loved going on the rides, especially the boomerang but it only closed down because they raised the cost too high.
Have you considered doing a history of Hersheypark? it's a great park with lots of historic rides
I have thought about it, but it is tough as i have never been. I am planning to go this year though so it may happen in the future!
This was great, well done!
Thank you!
i went to pleasure island a LOT as a kid, maybe 8 or 9 times, its only a small place and didnt have "amazing" rides but it was still great.
I went again coincidentally in the same year it closed down, in the last week of the last season. depressing that its gone but im just glad i got the chance to take my daughter before it closed down.
When it was £7.00 entry, you could get in for 50% off if you collected (I think 6.1 of each flavour) lids of a drink called Punika. Many brands used to trial products in the Grimsby / Cleethorpes area, something to do with the right social mix (rich, poor, young, old etc). This drink was on trial but even with the offer, it never took off. I remember Ariel wash tablets being trialled there and possibly Sunny Delight juice. Nowadays Cleethorpes still has some random things for the UK at least, a drive thru Taco Bell being one.
I live locally and still feel incredibly sad when I see the site going into decline. It had a good few years and our kids loved going there - such a shame.
I used to go to this par with school a lot - I swear I never remember any of the shows being performed, and a lot of the attractions being shut. This will have been 2008-2014. Still sad to see it go, though hearing the theme for the Tommy Tinkaboo ride brought back some of the nightmares from that dark ride.
Another great video! Always heard of Pleasure Island but never got to visit, did seem a little outdated towards the end by the looks of things though, but as she said without a good year they don't have the money in order to upgrade
Exactly once you start dipping it’s really hard to recover!
I used to go there so often. I would only go on the Boomerang because I don’t like flat rides (except the pirate ship and the Gravitron but they were tiny). Boomerang bashed your head so much on the restraints that after going on five times in a row I’d have to take a break until my headache died down and then I’d go on it five more times and go home feeling sick. It also felt kinda janky so I was always convinced I was going to die. They were great times.
I was born in Cleethorpes (a long time ago) although we moved south when I was very young, I still used to visit family up there. I had never heard of this park until seeing the video - perhaps lack of advertising was part of why it failed!
Enjoyed watching this great video many thanks
Really interesting! I wonder if the original owner hadn't of died, if the park would have stayed open? Just goes to show you never know what's round the corner...
Wow, you used my footage from the documentary I made on the construction of Shrieksville....I’m flattered! Great video, such a sad thing to think that I used to frequent this park with my kids, it was cheap entry and had plenty of fun rides. Melanie really tried to keep this park afloat and she loved the park too.
Thank you so much for the footage! I wish I could of found more but it seemed hard to find. Thanks! Yeah a shame really
This was my childhood! Tinkaboo factoryyyyyy - always had to smell those little scented things lol. And jeffro the parrot was my fav.
I remember going to this park a few years ago when I stayed at the camp site next to it. I didn’t think much of the park.
I used to go here every year and now I'm so sad it's gone I have so many amazing memories here xxxx I wish it didn't close 😭😭😭
Agree with comment on smaller parks in the UK. I remember Southport, its more like a funfair now I've been to alot as a kid (obviously Blackpool n Alton Towers are still the best even as an adult) but it must be hard for those that don't/didn't have that kind of money, and it's sad really. Loving the vids though, brings back memories
Literally got the dreaded tinkaboo factory theme song :’) had some wonderful memories at this place . The boomerang was harsh though would smash your head to the side on the loop lol . Also remember mum giving me £10 for food and it getting like one burger n chips was so expensive . Very sad to see what’s happened over the years
I used to go here a lot when I was a kid. Some really great times with my family. It was a bit shit but I'm a charming kind of way
I remember going here when I was about 16, and leaving early afternoon to go skateboard on the cleethorpes promenade instead
There was a small flyover bridge near a bike rental place. Awesome place to skate
Used to be a ride operator there. Interesting to see the history behind it all.
This is so wild. I live near here and used to go a fair amount. It sucked it shut down
great video again, really glad i never went here kinda reminds me of a bigger pleasure island in Southport, to many flats for me im more of a coaster buff. but still enjoyed the video. your channel reminds me of theme park Callum but more interesting cause you actually talk and have motion pictures. keep the good work coming!!
Thank you very much!
Another great video :) love it
Thank you Ben
I used to go here a lot. Nearest theme park to where I was living in lincs. I enjoyed it and was a good park.
So many childhood memories from that place
That woman didn't want to deal with the park. If they stuck with there plans they would have done great and they still would be open she let down her father and everyone who enjoyed the park. I can tell when she talks she didn't care about the park as much as her dad did and the people who visited since it opened. It's sad very sad to see a park that could have been something great get shut down and for the people who had jobs lose them and the people who enjoyed the rides is sad and it never had to happen, If they put there heart and soul into it would have been the best place on earth. But it's too late its gone never again to be enjoyed by the people and the family that owned it couldn't be happier.
Thank you for this great video
Thank you for watching Alice!
7:20 we had one of those here in the states. Worlds Of Fun in Kansas City and it was called the O'Megatron.
I use to go there with Forge Valley School in 2012 & 2015.
It was the best day of my life.
You forgot to mention condor, I saw the site be built and was there on opening day and spent many years going here I was also luckly enough to play Airsoft at the closed site in June 17 so many happy memories there
I used to go there and I loved the sea lions when I was younger. It’s sad though because I was young and I don’t remember it that well💖💞
Majority of the American local theme parks have all gone the way of the smoke and disappeared in the light of Disney, Universal, Dominion and other large companies. Sad to see that but I see the point as I want bigger and better. Thanks for sharing!
Yeah, they just can't keep up without the money
I went up today to check it out I used to go when I was little it actually made me cry just seeing everything gone
I’ve been to pleasure wood hills once, I never knew it had a sister park.
Waaaa bring it back !!!!!'!!!!! I love the tikka boo ride
I remember the gravity wheel, condor, aladdin (possibly called alakazam) and the century 2000 ride in the early 2000s. Fun times
You should do a video on the history of Worlds of Fun/Oceans of Fun in Kansas City, MO! I love that park and would really enjoy knowing the history of it!
Used to love going to Cleethorpes when I was a little kid, shame it has shut down now.
So many memories...
6:26 HUSS Enterprise's are the freaking SHIT! Such fun little rides! :D
I remember going here when we was on holiday at Haven Thorpe park. I rember it was very quiet.
They never come back as BOYS!
In all seriousness the Mini Mine Train was the first roller coaster I went on and enjoyed.
I can't believe it's been so long since it's closed down and I miss it soon much and recently I found one of the tinkaboo animatronics at Skegness in a sweet shop I also got the last ride on the voltar with one of my mates
The stock car stadium was actually next to pleasure island on the land that is still there now and still derelict...it usually plays host to the various circuses...i live there and used to play in the abandoned zoo and on the stock car stadium :)
This was down the road from me. I loved it! I couldn’t stand the alakazam! But loved the pendulus
If Pleasure Island didn't break away from Flamingo Land in 2010, then there's a chance that it would still be running today....
Yeah, in the long wrong though i am not sure it would of survived either way.
I worked here one season, it was a great summer!
The luxor casino use to have a river ride. And no one on RUclips has ever done a video on it.
My mate worked here. Always a shame when places like this close down, but sometimes it's just the way it is
Great video
Thank you so much!!
Yeah it’s a shame ;-; I lived there and the theme park was danm epic!
should do a video on Hurricane: Category 5 roller wooden coster that was taken down in 2006 in SC. Was my first big roller coster i ever riden. this video made me think of the old park.
I went here when I was little ........ aaaahhhhhhh the memories