Dreamland, Margate

[jimmy55]

Topic merged - Site Admin.

I don't know if you've been following the Dreamland saga, but sad to read this story of 'Missing Rides' now access has been granted to the site after two years.

http://dreamlandmargate.wordpress.com/

[badpenny]

It might help if the visual evidence (photos?) that the police have is shared.
Surely as evidence it can only be helpful if auction houses, restorers and other interested parties here and abroad can see it too?

However I have been on the receiving end of police assistance. Consequently I've learnt that now we hammer them with KPIs that condemn them for not meeting targets the police have become choosy about what they get involved in.

If recognisable details of what's missing aren't circulated at the first opportunity then in these days of scrap merchants touring every street in The UK on average three times a day and open frontiers across Europe I fear that already ironwork, brass and bronze bearings will have gone one way whilst artwork and furniture will have gone another.

BP

[jimmy55]

I did message them on Facebook this morning and suggest some photos would be useful. It would be tragic to lose anything from the project.

[badpenny]

I know I'm just a grumpy old pessimistic git but, if we don't know what's missing, when it went, carried off by whom or where it is now, then it is lost.

Somebody is accountable if only by opening the gates, not likely to get anything back, but at least the numpty might remember something.

BP

[coppinpr]

Am I missing something here? The piece seems to say they know who removed the rides. Surely this means that company are the thieves. Am I reading it wrong?

[badpenny]

It's one of those pieces that jumps about leaving more questions than answers.

It is with disgust and disbelief therefore that The Dreamland Trust reports that MTCRC began removing The Historic Rides Collection this week without consent.
Removing property that didn't belong to them I presume, are they saying where they moved it to?

Their removal and expected disposal via scrap merchants, or onward sale, is viewed as theft and has been reported to the police.
Viewed by whom as theft, all parties, Police or just The Trust?

The police are aware of all the missing items and have visual evidence of the property being removed from the site and are carrying out further surveillance and investigations.
So where's the issue? Nick 'em!

The Dreamland Trust asks that if anyone has information regarding the whereabouts of the items, or is offered the stolen property, to immediately contact Margate Police Station in confidence.
Why? The Police know what's taken and by whom, so why don't they know what's happened to it? Have they nicked 'em? Have they asked where it ended up? If not the details needed to have been circulated once they knew ...... which I guess didn't happen otherwise we'd all have known what to immediately contact Margate Police Station in confidence about.

[badpenny]

BBC News today with an article about Dreamland

[woody2]

The Dreamland Trust asks that if anyone has information regarding the whereabouts of the items, or is offered the stolen property, to immediately contact Margate Police Station in confidence.
Why? The Police know what's taken and by whom, so why don't they know what's happened to it? Have they nicked 'em? Have they asked where it ended up? If not the details needed to have been circulated once they knew ...... which I guess didn't happen otherwise we'd all have known what to immediately contact Margate Police Station in confidence about.

The missing ride parts where found in a scrap yard; shortly afterwards crushed.

[pennymachines]

Dreamland reopened on the 16th June, pinballs and other arcade machines courtesy of Peter Heath's Pinball Parlour.

Covered most extensively by the Guardian:
Margate’s Dreamland is back from the dead
'Pleasure without measure': Margate's Dreamland rises from the ashes
Like a dream: Margate's forgotten theme park – in pictures
Margate's Dreamland walks tightrope between work of art and funfair

[chris roadhog]

With the greatest respect, why open the park when it's not finished. Surely the main attraction is the Coaster?

[jonesthegarage]

Just skipping through my electronic programme guide with my morning coffee and I find "True Lives: Dreaming of Dreamland"



It's available on demand here: http://www.communitychannel.org/video/G ... ment_park/

[grabber]

The scenic railway was not allowed to open because of health and safety rules. Each carriage now has to have a wire cage fitted to it so the riders don't fall out.

[cheeky]

Will that now have to happen to the Gt Yarnouth one?