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April 2000 |
Joyland Books website is launched at
www.joylandbooks.fsnet.co.uk. |
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June 2000 |
Huge amusement park directory launched. |
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June 2000 |
Secondhand Shop opens. |
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July 2000 |
Theme park news service launched. |
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August 2000 |
Joyland Exhibition Hall opens with
'Gallopers at the Amusement Park' Exhibition. |
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October 2000 |
Joyland Books moves to a new website at
joyland.co.uk. |
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April 2001 |
Joyland Books moves to its final, permanent
home on the web, joylandbooks.com. |
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April 2001 |
Joyland Books launches its first online
message board, which would eventually become the popular Joyland
Forum. |
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July 2001 |
Joyland Books accepts credit cards and allows
online ordering for the first time. |
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October 2001 |
New look website launched with new logo. |
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November 2001 |
Magazine subscriptions first available. |
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April 2002 |
Joyland's Amusement Park Photographic
Library opens, supplying the world's media. |
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July 2002 |
Joyland Books
awarded membership of Which? Web Trader Scheme. |
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January 2003 |
Joyland Books launches the Save Dreamland
Campaign to save Margate's Dreamland Fun Park from closure. |
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January 2005 |
Circus bookstore re-launched as the world's
biggest circus store. |
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September 2005 |
Mailing list launched for customers who
want to keep up to date with new releases. |
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October 2005 |
Joyland is refreshed with a completely new
layout, which remains to this day. |
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June 2006 |
Greetings cards are sold at Joyland Books for
the first time. |
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September 2006 |
Pennies by the Sea website launched using
old Joyland Books domain, joyland.co.uk. |
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August 2007 |
New rides for sale service launched:
joylandrides.com. |
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October 2007 |
The world's best loved amusement park
nostalgia website themagiceye returns as part of Joyland Books. |
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March 2008 |
Our discount theme park tickets service is
launched, where the best deals and discounts are displayed. |
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November 2008 |
Joyland Books moves to Southcombe Farm
near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. |
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April 2010 |
Joyland Books celebrates 10 years! |
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"Congratulations and thank you to
Nick for ten years of Joyland Books.
Whether the interest be vintage
fairground or white-knuckle theme
park rides, Joyland gives access to
the largest selection of specialist
books anywhere.
Having a life-long passion
for the traditional fairground and
the seaside amusement parks I
enjoyed as a child, over the decades
I have bought many books from
numerous sources (some of which,
such as Worlds Fair and the
Fairground Association, being
inaccessible to the general public).
Joyland Books now makes web-based
purchasing of a surprisingly vast
number of specialist books
available, not just to hardened
fans, but equally to the novice and
the curious.
However, ten years ago, the
internet was still in a relatively
infancy, and to set up a business
selling specialist books through a
medium to which many (or perhaps the
majority) of enthusiasts had no
access, was either foolhardy or
truly visionary; fortunately, the
latter was the case. Ten years on,
and Joyland Books now does for us
what Amazon does for everyone else.
And finally, we should not forget
the work Nick has done with the Save
Dreamland Campaign, much promotion
of which has been through the
Joyland website. In short, Joyland
Books has created an awareness of
our amusement park and fairground
heritage, (as well as selling books
on 21st century white-knuckle roller
coasters)!"
Jerry Chattenton, Proprietor,
Mechanical Memories
Museum,
Brighton and
Mechanical Memories Magazine |
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