Pasaje del Morecambe

[Gary]

Love or hate the place, Morecambe continues to rear its head on these message boards in one form or another...

How many of you are aware that Morecambe's Frontierland was once considered for a Pasaje del Terror attraction like the one that now resides at BPB?

Three years ago I was lucky enough to interview Ed Marzola for BITSoftheBEACH..Reading between the lines the writing was probably already on the wall for the park...


"We first went to Blackpool sometime in 1993, and met with Geoffrey Thompson and David Mercer of the Blackpool Leisure and Amusement Consultancy Ltd.
We did not sell the Pasaje at that time because they did not have the space for it at the park itself. I am happy to see that Blackpool has finally installed one.
We went there many times trying to convince Geoffrey Thompson (now Sir Geoffrey) to have one in the park, but all we got was a lukewarm reception and the suggestion to install it in Morecambe, which compared to Blackpool is a rather sad seaside place without the traffic of the main park...On a field trip to Morecambe we determined that the flow of public would not be enough to sustain its commercial operation. "

I reckon if the Pasaje and the intended monorail had got the green light then perhaps...perhaps.. Morecambe would still be boasting a park to be proud of....

http://hometown.aol.co.uk/themagiceye/churchstreetrevisitedpage1.html

[Graeme]

I don't know if there would have been enough uptake for one to have worked at Morecambe, however, a similar attraction, "Sheer Terror" was tried and failed at Great Yarmouth. Perhaps a rather specialist attraction that only the biggest parks can sustain?

[Fraser]

Hmmmmmmm. Morecambe is like a living Pasaje these days:it's run down, bleak and full of ghosts.
Interestingly enough, I was once considering writing a horror novel set in a haunted walk-through attraction in a dead-end sea-side town not too dissimilar from Morecambe. Maybe I still will. It had a great plot, and was conceived with the sole purpose of turning me into the Stephen King of the UK, and making me also horrendously rich.

[Nick]

Have you read 'Carnival of the Dead' by Laurence Staig? It is set in a run-down seaside amusement park with haunted walk-throughs, old wooden roller coasters, the lot. I receommend it.

[Fraser]

Have you read 'Carnival of the Dead' by Laurence Staig? It is set in a run-down seaside amusement park with haunted walk-throughs, old wooden roller coasters, the lot. I receommend it.

Just ordered it through Amazon (not my first choice for ordering Coaster books you understand!!!!). Looking forward to reading it. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Dave H.]

Good old Morecambe.The first time I ever went was in 1971 when I was 11,what a place I thought,Illuminations,Winter Gardens Fairground,Happy Mount Park etc,we only stayed one night.That memory stuck in my mind and I returned 17 years later in 1988,the last year of the Illuminations.I have visited on the odd occasion over the past few years,when staying at Blackpool.I recently went back up to buy 2 Juveniles off the seafront,what a hole it is now,nothing at all compared to how it once was,a shadow of its former self.For some great old Pics of Morecambe,check out www,ilovemorecambe.co.uk and the msm link from it.