Frontierland operated in Morecambe from 1909 to 1999. Since then, it's been abandoned and only now is the local council looking to finally bring life back to the site
It welcomed countless thousands of visitors through its gates across a massive 90 year period. But as of 2023, barely anything remains of Lancashire's iconic Frontierland theme park.
A further planning application was approved the following year to allow additional retailing within the same scheme. But both planning permissions expired in 2019 and no new proposals had been formally submitted by Opus, or by the site’s owners, Morrisons. It is unclear when the park was named Fun City, but in a final, last-ditch attempt to boost visitor numbers, owner of the park and Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Geoffrey Thompson, decided to rebrand the ten-acre site as Frontierland in 1986, which ironically, is now a Wild West ghost town.
These included the Cyclone roller coaster which was designed by American engineer Harry Traver and built in 1937 for the Paris World Exposition. It was moved to the park in 1939. It was moved in 1993 to make way for the Big One roller coaster and rebuilt at Frontierland in 1993, opening to the public in 1994. It survived until 2017, although the cabin was removed in 2008, because a mobile phone company had a transmitter on top of it, and the contract ran until 2013.
The first ride to go was Stampede, which had opened in 1988, and no-one is sure where it ended up, followed by the teacups, which were moved to Pleasureland Southport, and were disposed of in 2006 when it closed. Apparently, some of them remain in the Southport Zoo site, hidden by the undergrowth.
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