Rhyl Ocean Beach Rides Arrive at Ffrith Beach

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Rhyl Ocean Beach Rides Arrive at Ffrith Beach

Postby mrjimlowe » 14 Apr 2008, 02:11

Hello

Some of Rhyl Ocean Beach's rides have now arrived at Ffrith Beach near Prestatyn. This is the Festival Gardens site.

Rides include the Spiral Slide and the Waltzers (now built up) as well as the Pepsi Loop coaster, the Nessi coaster, and the Dodgems.

My latest pictures of Ffrith Beach are now at:

http://www.conceptnews.org/ffrith
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Postby furie » 14 Apr 2008, 08:23

How strange?

The council destroyed Ffrith Beach with an ill conceived idea that a garden centre would be more popular than an amusement centre. It failed and cost them millions (and left them with a lot of wasteland.

Now they do the same to Rhyl, and try to botch a fix up a Ffrith??? I don't quite get how these things work?

I have a lot of good memories of Ffrith beach - we used to holiday in Prestatyn/Rhyl/Towyn when I was young (I remember walking once from Towyn to Ffrith on one of my Dad's mad ideas - we got a taxi home because my sister got stung be a jelly fish :lol: ).

We used to holiday at Kimnel Hall too, and Ffrith was always one of the highlights of the weekend.

I wonder what on Earth is happening then?
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Postby mrjimlowe » 14 Apr 2008, 12:15

I vaguely remember passing the original Ffrith Beach and it was popular, as there used to be coach trips there from the Merseyside area. There are very few pictures of it on the internet.
http://flickr.com/search/?q=ffrith+beach

There were a few travelling fairground rides on the Festival garden site in 2007, so it looks like the local council have woken up to the idea that there is still a demand for funfairs in the area. There was also a rumour of them having a pavement train like Southport which will run from the caravan parks in Towyn to Ffrith. There is a private development company involved as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffrith_Beach
http://www.attractionsnorthwales.co.uk/ ... h-fun-parc

http://www.visitprestatyn.com/index.php ... &Itemid=83
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Postby mrjimlowe » 17 Apr 2008, 00:56

I have been back to Ffrith today (17/4) and the Waltzers are getting painted and there is a wooden structure being built nearby. The other arrivals remain unchanged.

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Postby Nick » 18 Apr 2008, 19:44

Interesting that. A park in a busy resort closes because it is "no longer viable" and its site is redeveloped for apartments and an ASDA supermarket. Then the same rides are reopened by the same operator a few miles down the coast, except this time in a not-so-busy resort. Go figure.
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Postby mrjimlowe » 18 Apr 2008, 21:44

There was probably much 'corporate hospitality' involved in securing that land deal on the Ocean Beach site.
If you fly councillors down to London to look at the plans, then put them up in a luxury hotel, they will probably like the look of those plans and say "yes".
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