Dreamland rebuilding

c anderson · Dreamland rebuilding

It has been announced that Dreamland has just been given a grant of £400000 towards rebuilding. Not much but a start.

Steven Burns

http://www.rcdb.com/id1087.htm

Okay this was the original looping Star from the parks glory days and it says its been romoved in 2009 from Vidámpark in Hungery. Wonder where it has gone and how great would it be to get that one back to Dreamland.

Well.......i can dream of Dreamland.

bradpeet · Re: Dreamland rebuilding

bluea61

This is excellent news, lets hope some work will start soon and maybe we can have a summer bash there again!

bradpeet

Looks like things are moving forward a little.

They are advertising 3 posts on their website

Following an award of £384,500 of funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund, The Dreamland Trust - a not-for-profit company - is now recruiting three key people to take forward detailed proposals for a world's first tourist attraction in Margate. The Trust is building an amusement park of thrilling historic rides and a national centre for the celebration of British seaside culture and street style at Dreamland Margate. We are looking for outstanding individuals to drive this exciting project forward.

Current vacancies:

Project Director (£31,250 P/T, £62.5K FTE)

Audience Development Officer (£28,000pa)

Project Archivist (£22,000pa, 1 Year Fixed-Term Contract)

from http://www.savedreamland.co.uk/

Happy Helen

sueysue

Scenic Railway at Dreamland to be rebuilt next year!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/8361781.stm

David Ellis

£3.7m in grant funding approved by the Government today.

http://www.scenicrailway.co.uk/

Fantastic news, and well done to all those that have worked tirelessly to make it happen!

David.

bluea61

This truly is excellent news. Lets hope Dreamland can push onwards and upwards from here.

Well done to everyone who made it happen.

smiler

http://www.joylandbooks.com/scenicrailway/heritageamusementpark.htm

A great website with a list of rides and photos of whats going in to the park looks great.

Coaster Police

England's Dreamland Trust appoints project director (Dec 4, 2009)

The Dreamland Trust has just announced the appointment of Jonathan Bryant as its Project Director. Jonathan will be responsible for implementing the world’s first amusement park of thrilling historic rides at Dreamland Margate following the award of grant funding from Heritage Lottery and the Government’s Sea Change program.

With a wealth of experience in the heritage and leisure sectors and in business leadership, Jonathan, who’s originally from East London, established the United Kingdom's first brewing museum and opened a working coal mine to the public in Staffordshire. In Scotland he led the City of Dundee’s renaissance Discovery project as chief executive and on the River Thames set up Henley’s River & Rowing Museum, which won the coveted Museum of the Year Award and was short listed for the Stirling Prize for the work of its architect David Chipperfield – also project architect for Margate’s Turner Contemporary. More recently, Jonathan project directed Birmingham’s Thinktank Science Center and for the last five years has been member of British Waterways’ senior management team. He is also an active volunteer in the cultural & heritage sector and has served as chairman of the Association of Independent Museums, trustee and chairman of Dundee’s contemporary art gallery, trustee of Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust and, currently, chairman of Watermen’s Hall Preservation Trust in London.

Chairman of The Dreamland Trust, Nick Laister, said: “I would like to welcome Jonathan to The Dreamland Trust. He has a reputation for action and for successfully bringing forward first-class heritage attractions delivered with commercial and creative flair. With Jonathan’s excellent track record, I am sure that we will be able to deliver a Dreamland that Margate can be proud of.”

The Dreamland Margate project is being led by The Dreamland Trust, a not-for-profit company. The Trust is developing an exciting theme park from the past on the Dreamland site, giving visitors to Margate an opportunity to enjoy spectacular historic amusement park rides. The rides will be built around the center piece of the park, the Scenic Railway, the oldest surviving roller coaster in the U.K. and the fourth oldest in the world. Restoration work will also be carried out on the Grade II-listed Dreamland cinema building, creating a major new visitor attraction of international significance.

Jonathan Bryant said: “I am inspired by all that The Dreamland Trust and its partners have achieved to date and am looking forward to bringing Dreamland back to life as a firm family favourite for the 21st century.”

Jonathan joins The Dreamland Trust in Jan. 2010. Jonathan is currently interim chief executive at Hornsey Town Hall Creative Trust, which is working with Haringey Council to refurbish and develop the 1930’s listed civic buildings and assembly hall. From January his commitments to Dreamland and Hornsey Town Hall will run concurrently.

The Trust has also appointed Jan Leandro as Audience Development Officer and Graham Ward as Project Archivist, both of whom start in Jan. 2010.

Additional details can be found at:www.dreamlandmargate.com and www.savedreamland.co.uk

Happy Helen

It looks like a lot of the rides will have been relocated from Pleasureland, Southport.

bluea61

I pleased they picked up the machanisms for the Whip (Blackpool) and the Water Chute (Rhyl). I've never been on a full size Whip so would like to ride it.

Regatta

I`m so glad they have got the Water Chute from Rhyl. I love that ride - it has so much character.
It looks like a trip to Margate will be on the cards. Summer Bash?? Will it be open next year?
The last time we went there was one heck of a thunderstorm in the evening. We actually left the tent and sat in the car. For one thing it was safer (Farriday cage effect) and we had a far better view. We were slightly nervous about the idiot trying to charge his car battery with jump leads while the lightning was flashing in all directions, though!! Shocked

bluea61

Great Scots Mary, if he had got struck by lightning who knows what could have happened Laughing

Magic

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