Adventure Island (UK)

Adventure Island

amusement park
Location	Southend On Sea, Essex, England
Status	Operating
Opened	1949 or earlier
Owner	Stockvale Ltd
Operating season	February to November
Previous names	Peter Pan's Playground Peter Pan's Adventure Island
Website	www.advenrureisland.co.uk

Overview of the park in 2019

Adventure Island is a free-admission amusement park located at Southend On Sea, Essex, England, UK. It has five roller coasters and over 30 other rides, as well as attractions including restraunts and a gift shop.

The current site of the park flanks the north end of Southend Pier and has been an amusement park since 1976 when the Miller family purchased the land now forming the west side of the park. The site is currently owned and managed by Stockvale Ltd.

History[edit | edit source]

In 1976 the land to the west of the pier was purchased by the Miller family and they developed their amusement park on the site from the rudimentary original. The site was extensively redeveloped and in 1995 the park was vastly expanded when the land to the east of the pier was purchased to form part of the park.

The park has previously been known as Peter Pan's Playground and Peter Pan's Adventure Island, before becoming simply Adventure Island.

Roller coasters[edit | edit source]

Present[edit | edit source]

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Status
Barnstormer	Zierer	Family	2000	Operating
Green Scream	Zierer	Family	April 1998	Operating
Kiddi Koasta	Zamperla	Family	2011	Operating
Mighty Mini Mega	Pinfari	Sit-Down	2003	Operating
Rage	Gerstlauer	Sit-Down	2007	Operating

Past[edit | edit source]

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Closed	Relocated
Space Chase	J. Bakker Denies	Family	1984	1998	Travelling UK
Wendy Glide	Unknown	Family	Unknown	1970s	Template:Scrapped

Attractions[edit | edit source]

Operating[edit | edit source]

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened
Adventureville	Self-built	Tracked Dark Ride	2016
Archelon	Zierer	Waveswinger	1997
Axis	SBF Visa Group	Frisbee	2019
Big Wheel	Pinfari	Ferris Wheel	1983 or earlier
Crooked House	Self-built	Walk-through	1949
Dodgems	Reverchon	Dodgems	1980s
Dragon	Zierer	Sea Storm	1996
Dragon's Claw	Tivoli Manufacturing	Spin Out	2000
Drop and Smile	Self-built	Drop Tower	2003
Fireball	Self-built	Ferris Wheel variant	2006
Formula AI Karting	Formula K	Go-Karts	1995
Helter Skelter	Supercar	Slip/Helter Skelter	1986
Over The Hill	Self-built	Tracked Dark Ride	1999
Pharaoh's Fury	Sonacase	Twist	1998
Pirate's Plunge	SBF Visa Group	Drop Tower	2015
Ramba Zamba	Zamperla	Disk'O	2004
Sk8borda	Zamperla	Rockin' Tug	2004
Sky Drop	Zamperla	Drop Tower	2004
Smiles Per Galleon	SBF Visa Group	Pirate Ship	2015
Tidal Wave	Interlink	Dinghy Waterslides	1996
Time Machine	Self-built	Time Machine	2012
Vortex	Tivoli Manufacturing	Orbiter	2001

Closed[edit | edit source]

Name	Manufacturer	Type	Opened	Closed	Fate
American Freeway	Sobema	Superbob	1989	2000	Travelling UK
Barracuda	A.R.M.	Skymaster	1995	2000	Travelling UK
Blackbeard's Pirate Adventure	Art Tech Design	Walk-through	1998	2005	Scrapped
Devil's Creek Gold Mine	Self-built	Tracked Dark Ride	1950s	2015	Scrapped
Ferris Wheel	Unknown	Ferris Wheel	1961 or earlier	c.1970s	Unknown
Fireball	Zierer	Hexentanz	1999	2000	Relocated to Washington State Fair
Pirat Galleon	Zamperla	Pirate Ship	1990s	2003	Relocated to Funland Hayling Island
Raging River	Interlink	Log Flume	1996	2006	Relocated to Kongeparken
Scorpion	Tivoli Manufacturing	Troika	2000	2018	Travelling UK
Sea Serpent	Zapfun	Tube Slide	1996	2015	Relocated to Funland Hayling Island
Sky Lab	J. Bakker Denies	Enterprise	1990	1997	Relocated to Funland Hayling Island
Telecombat	S.D.C.	Jets	1985	1999	Travelling UK

External Links[edit | edit source]

Images of the park on NFCA Digital.

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