Nick Ousey: This picture shows the dodgems flooded. I used to work in the dodgem booth and as you can see from the picture there there was a box from which you controlled the ride.
Inside there was a red button and a green button to switch the electric on and off for the six or so cars. It was up to you how long the ride went on for.

If you had a girl with you in the booth the kids sometimes got a very long ride!!

There weren't many scams you could get up to as the customers used to buy tickets from ticket booths. Each ride cost a set number of tickets (normally 2 or 3 per ride - 12 tickets per sheet).

One of the only things you could do is that when someone had a big family and they gave you a full sheet of tickets you could then sell them back to a ticket seller and then they could be resold as a full sheet again.

You were doing well if you made £5.00 a day. You were only on about that anyway for 10 hours work!

Overall a happy and fun three seasons 1974-76.

"Happiland was put up for sale after the close of the 1989 season. The specification was as follows:
 
Developed as a Children's Amusement Park and separately fenced Playground together with an on-site car park which can accommodate four hundred plus cars. The rides include: Ghost train, Viking Boats, Sante Fe Train, Jet Ride, Magic Roundabout, the Wheel and Giant Astroslide."
 
Stephen Copnall, Pleasureland Memories