Littlehampton Rollercoaster - Smarts Amusements 1990

Some vintage video footage of the Littlehampton rollercoaster that was part of Smarts Amusements, which has long since gone!

This footage was shot in July 1990.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Littlehampton
• Rollercoaster
• Butlins
• Billy Smarts
• Smarts Amusements
• 1990
• West Sussex
• River Arun

[kitty3309]

We were always too scared to go on when it was open because of the rumours at school that someone got killed on it! Half the time it was closed and rusty.

[Caspersdaddy]

@kitty3309

I never went on it! I think I had heard the same stories!

[tonched00]

Wow...shame it's not there anymore!

[Caspersdaddy]

True - I never got to go on it!

[Andystonemusic]

Thanks for posting this! Brings back old memories right back to the early 70's! CAnt you remember the monorail?

[Caspersdaddy]

No Problem! Sorry - can't remember the monorail - but the miniature railway is still running!

[emptypages1970]

I remember going on the wild mouse in the late 70's,me,my brother and dad in one car,i was about 7.What a rickety bone shaker of a ride,I'm fairly certain there was no belt to hold you in,but we were double hard bastards in those days,not like the mollycoddled,pampered,

spoilt little pussies of today!

[rupertstratton]

Went on the wild mouse when i was about Nine. i never, ever went on a rollacoaster again. it was seriously scary.

[MrJasonBromley]

I went on the Wild Mouse Ride at the Harbour Park Littlehampton in the Summer of 1979 at the age of 7. I had never been on a ride like that before. I went on with my Dad and he sat behind me and me in the front of a two person carriage. I was very scared. But am not now. I also went on the Wild Mouse at the Harbour Park in the late 1980s and it was a more modern one had been put in to replace the old one. Has anyone got any photos or videos of the old Wild Mouse ride what was at the Littlehampt

[StarKiddd1]

this is old !! :L

[lulu64uk]

I remember the wild mouse very well from the 1970's - two of you in one carraige, from memory not strapped in and the person at the back getting a headache from hitting your head on the back as you went down ! I remember how it laboured up to the top and when going round corners it felt like you were gonna go straight over the edge ! God I was brave in those days !!!!!

[oldageraver]

I rember going to smarts through the 80s. Loved the enterprise and the matterhorn most. The coaster on the roof did seem scary but im sure it was safe. I wish harbour park could bring some of the old type type of rides back for the older age group (10+).

[tenterden16]

If you think this coaster was good, Littlehampton had a huge wooden Big Dipper. It was built on the same site by Billy Butlin in the early 30s and dismantled in 1962. The woodie was built on top of the now demolished building that has become the main entrance. The ride was a triple figure eight and thundered around the rack. It was painted blue and had the name Butlins Park in giant red letters on the front of the dipper. I was always scared to ride it . Photos of this ride do exist on line.

[mrwebb195]

harbour park got shit rides now lol