Which resort is the site of the art deco Midland Hotel and Happy Mount Park, the venue for the short-lived 'The World of Crinkley Bottom'?
"renamed the ""Midland Hotel"" in 1871 when the Midland Railway took over the North Western Railway; and another hotel at Heysham, the ""Heysham Towers"", which was converted from a private house in 1896. The Heysham Towers served railway steamer traffic from Heysham Harbour to Belfast; but it was not a success and was sold in 1919. In 1932, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) bought land from Morecambe Corporation to build the 40-bedroom Midland Hotel replacing the old hotel. It opened in July 1933. The hotel is designed in the Streamline Moderne style of Art Deco. Oliver Hill designed"
"park attractions based on Crinkley Bottom and Mr Blobby were set up in existing parks at Cricket St Thomas in Somerset and Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park in Lowestoft, Suffolk. A park was also built in Morecambe, Lancashire, on the site of the former Happy Mount Park. Following disappointing visitor numbers, and in the case of Morecambe, legal disputes with the local council, the deal was scrapped and the park closed. The two existing parks reverted to their previous state. Edmonds was said to be very critical of Lancaster City Council's management of the Morecambe park. A report by the District"
"little remains of the enclosures or buildings. The manor house was developed into a Warner Leisure Hotels resort in 1999. As a result of pressure from the development of the hotel and leisure market, it has been added to the Heritage at Risk register; despite areas being restored through Natural England's Environmental Stewardship scheme. Cricket Park was also briefly the home of Crinkley Bottom, a theme park based around the BBC television show Noel's House Party. Mr Blobby's house, named 'Dunblobbin' situated at the rear of the park. Mr. Blobby, the house and its gardens opened as an attraction in"
"started building a second Pleasurewood Hills style park in Cleethorpes. RKF went bankrupt in early 1991 and its attractions were sold. Some Pleasurewood management staff took control of The Bygone Village at Fleggburgh. Noel Edmonds converted the Haunted Theatre into Crinkley Bottom Castle in the mid-1990s. The park also featured appearances by Mr Blobby and Edmonds himself. The park continued in this vein until 1996-7, when it was bought by Leisure Great Britain, a caravan park operator. It owned the park until 2000, when Peter and Peggy Hadden, who had been connected with the park for many years, bought it."
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"were demolished in 1978; Central Pier, damaged by fire in 1933, was removed in 1992. In 1994, The World of Crinkley Bottom attraction in Happy Mount Park closed only thirteen weeks after opening. The ensuing Blobbygate scandal led to a legal battle between Lancaster City Council and TV star Noel Edmonds. The closures of Bubbles, Morecambe's swimming pool, and the Frontierland fairground soon followed. Concern over the decline of Morecambe's West End led to regeneration and investment in the area. ""The Times"" and the ""Daily Telegraph"" ran features on Morecambe's revival around Easter 2006. After falling into abeyance in the"
"by Mildred Tarnow (later by her husband John Tarnow after she died) and the Giddens family. John Tarnow ran the park as well as kept the carousel and other rides in good mechanical shape. The Jolly Roger restaurant (which had never been known as Nunley's) changed its name to ""Robin Hood"" in 1974. While the name of the restaurant changed, in the restaurant, everything else was the same. The restaurant (as Robin Hood) closed in 1976, and the park followed in 1978. (Some sources say 1977.) The site is now occupied by a strip mall. When Happyland opened in 1951,"
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"A two-year investigation by the district auditor was started due to the investment of £2 million by Lancaster City Council. It resulted in both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats withdrawing from the cabinet, leaving four councillors from Morecambe Bay Independents and the Green Party running the authority. A third Crinkley Bottom theme park was based at Pleasurewood Hills in Lowestoft, but has since closed. <nowiki>*</nowiki> <nowiki>†</nowiki> Noel's House Party Noel's House Party was a BBC light entertainment series that was hosted by Noel Edmonds. Set in a large house in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom, leading to much innuendo,"
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"the park alive. To be a part of the Kiddieland Facebook page, you can join by clicking the link below. https://www.facebook.com/groups/Kiddieland/ Kiddieland Amusement Park Kiddieland Amusement Park was an amusement park located at the corner of North Avenue and First Avenue in Melrose Park, Illinois. It was home to several classic rides including the ""Little Dipper"" roller coaster, which opened in 1950. The park closed on September 27, 2009, and was demolished in 2010 to make way for a new Costco store, the sign for the amusement park was relocated to the Melrose Park Library where it can be seen"
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"four-star boutique hotel, 20 apartments, a 1950s diner and a pleasure garden. The completion date was announced as 2014, but work was halted in 2013 because of a lack of funds. The project received a grant of £3.7m from the Heritage Lottery Fund in November 2013. The building re-opened in July 2018. Dire Straits refer to the Spanish City in their 1980 song ""Tunnel of Love"", which became the fairground's unofficial theme song, played every morning when it opened. The town mentioned in the song, Cullercoats, is a stop on the train line (now part of the Tyne and Wear"
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"Midland Hotel, Bradford The Midland Hotel is a 90-bedroom three-star Victorian hotel in Bradford city centre, owned and managed by London-based Peel Hotels. The architect was Charles Trubshaw, who was contracted to design many railway stations for Midland Railway Company. Construction of the hotel began in 1885 and took five years to complete. It was built by the Midland Railway Company as part of the original Forster Square Railway Station, as a showpiece for the company's northern operations. Following the ""golden age of steam"" the hotel fell into disrepair until it was bought by Bradford entrepreneur John Pennington in 1992,"