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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
Lifestyle
Lee Grimsditch

Frontierland: Lost rides of now abandoned theme park loved by Manchester kids in its heyday

Many Mancunians growing up in the 1980s and '90s will remember the excitement of a trip to Frontierland.

The Wild West theme park in Morecambe, Lancashire, closed in 2000 and has lay abandoned for the past 20-years. But many will remember it fondly for its classic rides such as the Texas Tornado roller coaster, Runaway Mine Train and Polo Tower.

The theme park first opened in 1906, titled West End Amusement Park, however little is known of what the park consisted of before 1936, when it was purchased by the Thompson family, owners of Blackpool Pleasure Beach. They also owned Pleasureland in Southport.

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