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Terry Naylor
Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
edited October 2009 in Not Sports Related
Can anyone remember the name of the massive flume park/center in Dartford in the late 80's?
It was on top a hill you could see it from the A2!

I heard it had to be knocked down due to it sinking?

I had some great nights in there as a teenager!!

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  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,620
    seven seas?
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,338
    edited October 2009
    Fantaseas

    Mind Blower; Cyclone; Double Dipper; Nightmare; Doom Tube and Wipeout.

    Built in 1989; financially went "down the tubes" (ahem), until falling into liquidation (ahem) after eighteen months, with debts of £6m.
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Built on a refuse site, and no doubt had dodgy foundations anyway.
  • BDL
    BDL Posts: 6,001
    It sank - literally!

    Fantaseas - They had another one in Watford.
  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    edited October 2009
    Cheers fellas

    I knew I could count on you lifers!!!
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,753
    Went to the site in about 2001 on a little walk as I lived just down the road. The bottom of the pool was still there - tiles just laying in the middle of a great field.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    I did work experience with the police and they confirmed the story about running out of money wasn't true - the place was actually sinking courtesy of it's previous existence as a dump

    shame - I loved it there!
  • Medders
    Medders Posts: 5,572
    I can remember the lazy river and a slide that just went straight down, like a death drop into a plunge pool. Also the Bermuda Triangle and the Black flume. I believe some of the stuff, as mentioned above, is still at the site... tiles etc

    Here it is:
    8925_158210582601_721297601_2794275_6737733_n.jpg
  • Miserableoldgit
    Miserableoldgit Posts: 21,458
    How quick do you need the answer.......?
    ;-)
  • kigelia
    kigelia Posts: 2,582
    What it looks like now
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  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Miserableold-ish git[/cite]How quick do you need the answer.......?
    ;-)[/quote]

    LOL

    I was talking to someone about it last night and you know when its on the tip of your tounge but you can't remember?
  • Terry Naylor
    Terry Naylor Posts: 2,126
    I remember that river that went outside even though it would be freezing the water was boiling!!

    Also remember getting in those hoops and going down 4 or 5 levels.

    Good times!!

    If they had something like that now they would make a killing???
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,555
    [cite]Posted By: Terry Naylor[/cite]Can anyone remember the name of the massive flume park/center in Dartford in the late 80's?
    It was on top a hill you could see it from the A2!

    I heard it had to be knocked down due to it sinking?

    I had some great nights in there as a teenager!!

    Fantaseas , I'm sure of it

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