Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Most of you are to young to know what Dreamland was like or not living in Kent.But it was my weekend place,it was the place all as youg men would head for. Also Ramsgate was on the map,we would go first to Ramsgate front to see all the lights etc then on to Margate from friday night round to Sunday night all the big singing stars where in shows there in the summer weeks, and there was lots of danceing halls and then Dreamlandand all it rides and side shows and the rollercoaster I been on that so many times,even when alad my mumand dad would takes there great times,and there are to come back for our grandkids,it will be the first place I take my 12 grand kids and great grandkids.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Yes if you can go please do it ,the first thing should be the tunnel .I am not feeling well at this time or we might have gone.I can you it will be great to see it all open again with a real tunnel of love you sit in round tubs and it goes round and round in water .
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Also there was a big wheel,!"So what you might think" Well this big wheel had a second big wheel on top of it and then both would turn round .The side shows were good to and the cafes ,dance hall Dreamland had the lot . Will be the same this time,we will have to wait and see,and mate of mine was a engineer there he also helped in the desighs of some of the rides,when it closed down he went with Mr Godden the money man and worked for him at the Roetonder at Folkestone,
Then he left there and went to where I was working and we worked off and on for about 6 years around London and local.He all ways said he would like to go back if they rebuild dream land.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes Mr Gary I forgot about that one ,I went on it a few times,are there anymore anyone can name.?
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I would like to think that all the rides would be the same now as they were in the 1950s 1960s but I do not think they will time has moved on and rides we had then the young ones would find boring ,but there was one and I would not go on it and that was the rockets there was two rockets on a long arm one each end and they would go round at speed like a windmill ,if you was under 16 you was not allowed to go into the side show that had the one arm bandits in it there was a big punch bag out side with a clock telling you how hard you had hit it,must say I was good at that one,also the one you hit with a hammer and had to ring the bell at the top of the post.Also you had the horses that went up and down and around.Cannyfloss was the thing and Toff/apples but the apple most times was bad in the middle.
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Another good link.
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Beware of the idiot screaming.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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GREAT thanks I have been siting there and thinking was there also a steam train running round the park,and now I see there was,.Just loged into that site again thank you.
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This covers Margate as a resort.
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This covers Margate as a resort.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I hope you all log into what Mr Gary found,yes Margate was the place to be in my young days,you can see in that last film the rides we were talking about and the night lights and I have been in the speed boat in that film I have play on that stage in a army band great thank you brings it all home again,lets hope that Margate will get back to what it was in the 1960s .
Being it on.
