I emailed the Thanet Gazette three times asking them to investigate this travesty and didn't they didn't even have the courtesy to reply.
- Whip and Corbiere Wheel
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- Whip and Corbiere Wheel
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THE STORY GOES:
Tuesday, 2 February 2016
Thanet Council's Historic Fairground Rides Vandalism.
Vintage fairground rides, destined for the Margate Dreamland Amusement Park, which were purchased using government grants, have been “left to rot” at Ramsgate Port says former Green Party councillor Ian Driver.
The rides including a Corbiere Wheel; a Junior Whip; and an American Whip have been stored outside, without cover or protection, for a year and have become badly damaged by continual exposure to the elements.
Said Driver “these rides are of great historic importance, some of them are over 70 years old and are amongst a tiny handful of surviving examples. The Heritage Lottery Fund allocated £1.235 million to restore these, and other rides, to their former glory for the public to use and enjoy at Dreamland. But sadly they have been dumped at the port of Ramsgate forgotten about and allowed to rot and deteriorate. It’s probably too late to restore them now as they have become so badly damaged. This is an insensitive act of historic vandalism by Thanet Council and the latest in a series incompetent blunders by senior TDC officers responsible for managing the Dreamland project".
Its is understood that in order to make space for the car importation contract at Ramsgate Port, the rides will shortly be moved to another Thanet location where, once again, these valuable historical rides will be left outside unprotected from the elements.-