Thumbs up as always, thanks! 🌞

I went there in 92 & 94. This version of Dreamland is long gone, but its exactly how Dreamland is in my mind :D

I was Margate 89 and 90. Remember BIG wheel, Loop and ship that go upside down.😊

Oh the caterpillar ride . Such sweet memories of going as a child with my family .

Such brilliant days of my unforgettable, wonderful, and trouble free childhood, when the worst thing you had to worry about were a few cross words with other kids. Now days you look at someone and they stick a knife in you. Why has it gone so sour? Really sad.

Loved this place in the 80s and 90s. Used to get so excited on the train journey there because you could see The Looping Star and the Big Wheel as you pulled into Margate Station. We used to stay at the Butlins hotels in Cliftonville every summer..........amazing memories x

i went there more times than i could remember, riding the woody, mary rose, always going to the wimpy 1/4 cheeseburger meal with loads of burger sauce, way back in the 80s, and sadly watched its decline until it shut, where has the years gone.

The best rides gone but not forgotten

No idea why this just popped up on my suggesteds, but gosh this prought back a lot of memories. A whole bunch of us when up there around this time so this is exactly how I remember it. Just a shame the usual suspect sold it off as soon as he could, but couldn;t pave over the whole thing and sell it off to developers. That pesky Scenic Railway getting in the way again. You may possibly know, but two of the most iconic rides are still in operation. Mary Rose is now called the Black Pearl & is at Lightwater Valley, and the absolutely iconic Looping Star has got a new home and a new name. It's now called Gwazi, and is still happily taking passengers at Lion Safari park in Botswana.

Went there in the mid eighties and loved it... will always be as it was then in my memories.. never forget the roar of the rattling metalwork on the looping star and the clunking of the loop at the top and bottom .😊

This was the best Time at Dreamland Margate with all the Huss and Schwarzkopf Rides!

The noise of the Shooting star as it went into & out of the loop is a sound I'll never forget. I spent so much time on that ride as a kid! Thank you 😊

Heat wave was originally the Apollo and had gondolas that circled around as they wen round the moon.

I went here in '93, and the Ben Hur was one of the few rides I went on. The horses were made to gallop in an unusual way, with their front ends lifting up, although on some European carousels the galloping mechanism is underneath the horses, rather than the horses hanging from poles. I wondered when I first saw this ride if the horses were adapted kiddie rides due to their bases. There used to be skid rides called Ben Hurs, as they had chariots. When I was there, I also noticed that most of the electric motors on the rides sounded similar. Melody Swings is an unusual name for a paratrooper ride.

Good old days.

there was a boat ride called stowaway that seems to have been completely forgotten by everyone on the internet, do you know anything about that? asking because apparently it was haunted in some way and i'm looking for footage or photos of it :)

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Good times

Most of these rides ended up in Scotland when the last owner shut the park he opened a theme park up there

I’m sure someone who used to go to dreamland before shutting in 2005, will remember this ride, it was called sombrero, I have a very small memory of riding this with my mother as a wee child (must’ve been between 4-6 years old) and for some reason, it’s bugging me that I’m not able to find much info about the ride being at dreamland, only a website that tells you about past rides there🤔 I know Drayton manor had a sombrero ride as well but not entirely sure if it was the same one or it was another ride.

wasn't there a water ride at this park? i remember something, but i was quite young at the time. i remember splashing down sevearl times and a lift hill at one point. i rmember the mary rose too, though was too small to ride it at the time.

Isn't that first one the Troika?

I want to try this 7:51

Just started the video so it might be on here but I doubt it, does anyone remember the pirate ride under the cinema on hall by the sea road