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Blackpool Pleasure Beach at Night

These photographs of the Pleasure Beach at night were taken in 1977.

The Big Dipper dominates these views of the finial atop the rise and turn of the ride before it plunges down the first and best dip.

The Pleasure Beach north entrance from the Promenade.

Noah's Ark stands in front of Hiram Maxim's Flying Machine. On the left is the distinctive round Casino Building, housing the Horseshoe Bar and White Horse Restaurant. To the right is an amusement arcade.

Looking from the north entrance towards the Wild Mouse and Big Wheels.
Joseph Emberton's wonderful Fun House building.

The attraction was a magnet for many visitors who would spend the entire day inside, enjoying such simple pleasures as the cakewalk, the giant slide, the smaller but vertical drop slide, the spinning disc that threw riders off and into each other and of course the barrel walk.

The three faces mounted on the front of the building to the right would swing and rotate and made a face no matter which way up they happened to be.

After the success of the Space Tower, a smaller version was built in the children's section of the park.

Below left: the Ghost Train and (then) new Gold Mine ride, seen behind it from the northern half of the park.

Maxim's Flying Machine looms over the Auto Shooter side stall.