Visitor Attractions in Blackpool - Parks and Commons in Blackpool, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool, Blackpool Tower, Pleasure Beach Blackpool (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Parks and commons in Blackpool, Pleasure Beach, Blackpool, Blackpool Tower, Pleasure Beach Blackpool, Ripley's Believe It or Not , Blackpool Illuminations, Kincraig Lake Ecological Reserve, Fylde Memorial Arboretum and Community Woodland, Valhalla, Stanley Park, Blackpool, Grundy Art Gallery, Infusion, Pepsi Max Big One, Pasaje Del Terror, Blackpool Zoo, Trauma Towers, Bispham Rock Gardens, Wild Mouse, Ice Blast: The Ride, Blackpool Mecca, Salisbury Woodland Gardens, Blackpool, Avalanche, Big Dipper, Moor Park, Blackpool, Grand Metropole Hotel, Space Invader 2, Pleasure Beach Express, Grand National, Blackpool Pleasure Beach railway station, Nickelodeon Streak, Zipper Dipper, Steeplechase, Irn Bru Revolution, Bling, Kingscote Park, Blackpool, Sandcastle Water Park, George Bancroft Park, Blackpool, Hot Ice Show, Morgan's Circus Clown Coaster, Golden Mile, Blackpool Sands, Blackpool. Excerpt: Pleasure Beach, Blackpool formerly 'Blackpool Pleasure Beach' is a family owned amusement park and resort situated along the Fylde coast in Blackpool, England. It is the most visited amusement park in the United Kingdom, and one of the top twenty most-visited amusement parks in the world with 5.5 million visitors in 2007. The park is owned by the Thompson family. In 2003 the park opened the Big Blue Hotel, a four star hotel, making the park part of an official resort. The park operates an additional children's park in the resort called "Nickelodeon Land" which is part of the Nickelodeon Corporation. The main attractions at Pleasure Beach, Blackpool include: Pleasure Beach was founded in 1896 by Alderman William George Bean after he failed in his attempt to become an advertising man on New York's Madison Avenue. He returned to the UK in 1897 and opened two separate amusement parks; one adjacent to Euston Road in Great Yarmouth and...