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To accompany our
article on Pleasure Beach Blackpool's Virginia Reel,
The End of the Reel,
we present this gallery of photographs of the ride through the
years, including the ride's demolition.
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 Photograph: Nick Laister Collection/www.joylandbooks.com |
An early view of
the Reel. |
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 Photograph: Nick Laister Collection/www.joylandbooks.com |
In this later
view, the Reel is joined by the Fun House and Grand National.
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 Photograph: Phil Gould |
The Reel in 1980,
a few short years before its demolition.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
The view from the
top of the Virginia Reel lift hill.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
The top of the
Reel. |
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
Demolition of the
Virginia Reel in 1982.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
Demolition well
underway at the top of the ride.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
Close-up of the
demolition work.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
A view across the
partly demolished Virginia Reel towards the Hiram Maxim Flying
Machine and Ghost Train.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
Most of the track had been removed when this photograph was taken. Note the 'Hardluck Bears Show' behind. |
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
The sad sight of
the remains of the Virginia Reel. The Reel isn't the only lost
Blackpool landmark in this photograph. In the distant background
can be seen Blackpool's former Open Air Swimming Pool, which is
now the Sandcastle Waterworld. And to the very right of the
photograph, just in view, is the former Gables Balmoral Hotel,
which was demolished in 2008.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
The Enterprise
ride can be seen behind the partially demolished Virginia Reel.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
Mechanical parts
of the Reel following its demolition.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
The main lift
hill pulley after the lift hill structure was removed.
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
A view of the main Virginia Reel slope after all the track was removed. |
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 Photograph: Ian Beech |
The end of an era
- a view across the remains of the Reel towards the Noah's Ark
on a wet winter's day in 1982.
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 Photograph: themagiceye |
The Virginia Reel
at Luna Park, Coney Island (USA).
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 Photograph: themagiceye |
The Virginia Reel
at Venice, California.
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 Photograph: themagiceye |
Comic postcard
featuring Blackpool's Virginia Reel.
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 Photograph: Les Tomkinson Collection |
Blackpool
Pleasure Beach was not the only British amusement park to
feature a Virginia Reel. There was also a similar Reel at the
Spanish City Amusement Park at Whitley Bay near Newcastle.
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| More on Blackpool's Virginia Reel | |
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The End of the Reel: Article
on the final days of Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Virginia Reel Reeltime Memories: Interview with the daughters of the Virginia Reel's inventor |
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