Dreamland Flyers Site ?

[porf]

Hi All,

I seem to have acquired around 10 Dreamland Flyers (mostly 1990's) and have been toying with the idea of setting up a website with scans of them so they actually get seen rather than just sitting about on shelves in my computer room.

Would anyone actually be interested in this sort of site or is it just me ?

If it goes ahead does anyone have any older flyers or other literature that I can borrow, scan and return ?

Cheers and Happy Xmas

[Zoidstar]

That would prove intresting, could always expand it to include theme parks that have been lost over the years Rotunda, Southend Kursaal etc:

I am currently working on a web site all about Southend hope to launch it in the new year funding permitting.

[Sarah]

How about liaising with RowBot and adding a page or two to his Dreamland site?

Give my boys a Christmas kiss from me...

Sarah

[RowBot]

Ya sounds a great idea porf! Personally I would be interesting in helping I can give you space to host you site, a subdomain...or even access so u can add it 2 the site im currently running. Just pm me if any of these sound interesting

[DN]

Id be most interested to see these

[Vince, Charlie and Sam]

I'd love to see them!

Vince

[porf]

Ok, sounds like it's worth doing.

I'm currently playing around with the files to see what I can end up with, so something will happen !

The main issue is trying to maintain the readability of the text on them whilst keeping the file sizes down. I've been testing with the biggest flyer (roughly A4 double sided and colour).

I thought one downloadable Adobe PDF per flyer would be nice, even though the files are around 1.5 meg each. I could always break this down into one for each side.

JPEGS are coming in at a similar size for a complete flyer for the level of quality needed, but could be broken down into one image per page to cut download times for users with slow connections.

Currently toying with going the JPEG route first with the possibility of adding the PDF's later or making them available on request.

Hopefully get on the case a bit more during the week.

Thanks to those who've offered help, may be in touch once I've sorted the formats.

Cheers all!

[porf]

OK - quick preview scan as some of the flyers have quite nice maps in them.

http://www.shutterbook.com/hires/19797105606_10250.jpg

Image is around 400kb.

[Zoidstar]

Nice size nice and bright can read it all.

Spot on mate.

[DN]

I used to ahve every flyer from Dreamland from about 1983 to present...i recall 1996 didnt have the Pirate SHip in it and i thought they had got rid of it, but they moved it to in front of the Big Wheel (Where it suddelnly got put on much more thrilling settings)

Unfortunately i lost them all in a move a few years ago, i really would love to see some more, i have seen a couple of early 90s ones in Margate library but that is about it

I also loved the way they would put SPhinx and Crazy mirros as 2 rides when they were one ride at the end

[porf]

Hi All,

I still need to scan some of the flyers that are a bit awkwardly sized for my scanner. Typically for me I've done the easy ones!

In the meantime I've scanned in a recently acquired a set of postcards showing the Illuminations from Dreamland.

They are currently at : http://www.avfl84.dsl.pipex.com/dreamland/Dreamland_Illuminations_Postcards1.htm

Flyers to follow soon, honest