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Sunday, 24 January 2010
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Conference on amusement
park history announced |
| This year's
Institute for Archaeologists Conference will feature an entire morning
session devoted to amusement park heritage, and Dreamland will feature
heavily. Hosted by Jason Wood, who has provided heritage advice to The
Dreamland Trust for a number of years, the session is called
'Fairgrounds for Debate: celebrating the heritage of amusement parks'
and will run from 9.45 to 12.45 on Thursday 15 April at the Southport
Theatre & Convention Centre at Southport, Merseyside.
Six speakers will be talking on various
aspects of the history and heritage of amusement parks, from their early
twentieth-century origins to the demise of many in the early
twenty-first century.
The speakers and their subjects are: |
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Opening remarks
Jason Wood, Heritage Consultancy Services
The rise of the seaside amusement park:
international perspectives
John K Walton, University of the Basque Country
‘A fortune in a thrill!’ Early
amusement parks in Britain
Josie Kane, University of Westminster
Battersea Park: plans to build, plans
to forget
Ian Trowell, University of Sheffield
Last night of the fair: heritage,
culture and closure of Southport’s Pleasureland
Anya Chapman, Liverpool Hope University
Delivering the dream: saving Britain's
amusement park heritage and the reawakening of Margate's Dreamland
Nick Laister, RPS Planning and Development & The Dreamland Trust
Places can be
booked online and, although the conference runs for three days,
it is possible to book for the Thursday only.
Click here for more details of the morning amusement parks session ('Fairgrounds
for Debate' features on Thursday 15
April).
IfA Conference website |
Saturday, 16 January 2010
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Coast magazine highlights
Dreamland |
| The February
issue of
Coast
magazine features Dreamland prominently, as the first in a new series
called 'Save Our Seaside'. The Editor's message on Page 7 explains:
"...this month we are launching our Save Our Seaside campaign (or SOS
for short) to highlight the plight of coastal buildings that have fallen
on hard times. The campaign starts on page 20, with the inspiring story
of Margate's Dreamland pleasure park, rescued by campaigners. They've
proved that grass roots lobbying can change things for the
better. Let's see what difference we can make."
"CASE ONE: Dreamland, Margate" is on pages
20 and 21, where architectural historian Allan Brodie starts the series
with "the makings of a success story" as he briefly sets out the history
of Dreamland, bringing it right up-to-date with the park's closure and
Scenic Railway fire. The article states:
"Work is about to begin on the creation
of the world's first heritage amusement park, due to open in 2012.
Thirteen vintage rides have been collected and there are plans to obtain
another 15."
Magazine website |
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