Fairground Scary
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Photographic Print. Scary beast guarding entrance to Ghost Train fairground ride in Blackpool Ple...
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Photographic Print. Scary beast guarding entrance to Ghost Train fairground ride at Blackpool Ple...
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Photographic Print. Scary Gothic horror vampire beast guarding the Ghost Train, Blackpool Pleasur...
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Photographic Print. Scary eyes fairground art above beast entrance to Ghost Train ride in Blackpo...
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Photographic Print. Jewelled skull decorated with tattoos and jewels, amusement arcade in Santa C...
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Photographic Print. Viking with winged helmet raising his sword across the skull on a cross in Bl...
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Photographic Print. Viking with winged helmet raising his sword across the skull, Valhalla Ride, ...
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Photographic Print. Skull on cross against dramatic waterfall rockface on Valhalla, Blackpool Fai...
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Photographic Print. Skull on wooden cross and cascading water on rock at Blackpool Pleasure Beach...
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Photographic Print. Black and white skull on cross, cascading water on rock, Valhalla, Blackpool ...
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Photographic Print. Skull with crashing waterfall at Valhall ride, Blackpool Pleasure Beach Amuse...
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Photographic Print. Scary skull in tower of the Ghost Train at Blackpool Pleasure Beach Amusement...
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Photographic Print. Scary gothic skull in the tower of the Ghost Train at Blackpool Pleasure Beac...
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Photographic Print. Scary skull in gothic horror tower of the Ghost Train, Blackpool Pleasure Bea...
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Photographic Print. Scary gothic skull in the tower of Ghost Train at Blackpool Pleasure Beach fa...
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Photographic Print. Gothic skull in tower of the Ghost Train at Blackpool Pleasure Beach fairgrou...
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Photographic Print. Scary skull guarding over the Ghost Train at Blackpool Pleasure Beach fairgro...
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Photographic Print. Gothic skull in tower of the Ghost Train at Blackpool Pleasure Beach Fairgrou...
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Photographic Print. Space Invaders dark fairground ride crashed rocket at Blackpool Pleasure Beac...
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Photographic Print. Space Invaders space rocket fairground ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Engl...
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Photographic Print. Space Invaders dark fairground ride crashed rocket in space mountain. Blackpo...
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Photographic Print. Tyrannosaurus rex Dinosaur at Blackpool Pleasure Beach Amusement Park, Engl...
Colours are accurate to my photographs but are often over saturated on current HD, uncalibrated and phone screens. I hope I have captured the gothic horror splendour of the Ghost Train vampire beast, the skull in the tower of the Ghost Train and the Valhalla skull and Viking at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. This quirky sense of fantasy they have is also present in Space Invaders, the Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur with a rocky, crater, lunar moonscape and in the skull with jewels at an amusement arcade in Santa Cruz, California.
While on a visit to Philadelphia in 1931, the new director of the Pleasure Beach, Leonard Thompson, saw amusement parks themed in the Modernist Style and wanted the style for Blackpool. In 1933 he brought in Joseph Emberton to design the whole of the Pleasure Beach and in 1939 The Casino building was opened. Emberton was the 1st British born architect to design in the Modern Movement Style and the only one included in the ground breaking New York Exhibition, The International Style in 1932. Emberton designed for the Pleasure Beach upto his death in 1956 then Jack Ratcliffe who had been involved in The Festival Of Britain, was brought in and continued until 1976.
Fairgrounds were once rich in fairground art, hand painted, often in a naive way, resulting in an original creation of quirky, fairground fantasy. Many rides are being closed down or replaced by ones with screwed on plastic sheets of computerised graphics. However there are some exceptions in the new rides, using originality such as Superbowl at Southport Pleasureland and Bling with it's hand airbrushed surreal eye at Blackpool Pleasure Beach which is now at Skyline Park, Germany.
I want to photograph as many old rides as I can before they disappear to show their enchanting sense of magic, fantasy and escapism. Some old rides from Pleasureland, Southport have been taken and restored at Dreamland Historical Amusement Park in Margate, including the 1920's Caterpillar, machinery from The Ghost Train and River Caves, the Hall of Mirrors and Haunted Swing. As a photographic print, or canvas if requested, a fairground art image is bold and distinctive. View other photographs in the section Fairground Pleasure .
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