The Kursaal was the
largest amusement park in the south of England throughout much of
the 20th Century, and the destination for thousands of East
Enders, and others, up to the 1960s. This book tells the story of
the Kursaal, from its origins in the late 19th Century, to the
closure of the park in the late 1970s, and of the buildings in the
1980s, and then to its re-opening at the very end of the last
century. With 160 photographs - showing the Kursaal through the
years - many of which are published here for the first time.
Also available in the 'Amusement Park
Memories' Series...
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Pleasureland
Memories
by
Stephen Copnall
The Pleasureland
Amusement Park at Southport has been a major feature of the town’s
tourist industry since the 1920s and long before that the seaward
side of the town was synonymous with public amusement. From the 1870s
there had gathered a collection of shies, stalls and simple rides at
Southport’s southern lake near the foreshore. It was from this
haphazard gathering that Pleasureland evolved into one of the most
important amusement parks in Britain.
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