The Flambards Experience

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The Flambards Experience is a family amusement park in Helston, Cornwall.

The Flambards Experience (formally Flambards Village theme park) was founded in 1976 as the "Cornwall Aircraft Park" by Lt Cmdr Douglas Kingsford Hale MBE and his wife Audrey. Whom trade as the registered company "(The) Cornwall Aircraft Park (Helston) Ltd"

Attractions include

• The Victorian Village Experience
• The Britain in the Blitz Experience
• The Memory Lane Experience
• The Hands on Experience (commonly remembered as the exploratorium)

and a number of rides

Rides and amusements:

• The Hornet Rollercoaster - A Zierer Hornet style coaster
• The Canyon River Log Flume - made by [[Zamperla}}
• The Cyclocopters - made by Zierer
• The Balloon Race - made by Zamperla
• The Extreme Force - Keith Emmet Skymaster style ride previously owned by Joesph Manning
• The Chariot Race - former fairground ride previously called the SuperBob
• The Thunderbolt - Superrides International made Superstar ride (SS6) previously owned by Scott Manning as "Wildthing". This ride was actually used in the millennium celebration on the Mall in London
• Sea Legs Childrens indoor play area
• The Coolzone & tots zone indoor play area
• The Hags play outdoor play area
• Shiver m' timbers (the wobbley bridges)
• The Demon Drop Slide (death slide)
• The Animal Express (kiddy train ride)
• The Cornish Childrens Eye (ferris wheel)
• The Swiss Carosoul (childrens merry go round - about 80 years younger than its decoration says)
• The Tea Cups (S.W. amusements made childrens Tea Cups ride)
• The Pirate Ship (a childrens pirate ship approx capacity of 12 children)
• The Human Cannonball ride

In addiation to these there is a Go-Kart track, video games arcade, and an animal show.

The latest additions to the park are

• The Kingsford Venue

A theatre tent bought from i think it was the Royal Shakespear Company. Building of this finished in late March 2005 and was initally opened for the "centre stage" shows and later named the Kingsford Venue

• The Magmun bar

Formally the milkcan prize games area which closed at the end of 2004 summer season. This area was used as the jacket potato stand in the 2005 summer season. The building of the Magnum bar started early in the 2006 summer season but wasn't finished (late due to the builders taking their time then the electrician cover for the rest of the park was virtually suspended until the electricians finished wiring the place) by the mid July 2006

Trivia:

• The Goats for the 2006 summer season are known (at least by the General duties staff) as Frodo Baggins and Mr Tumnus.
• By mid September 2006 visitor numbers were rumored to be approx 27000 down on that time 2005
• The Park made a Loss in the 12 months up to the end of Jan 2005 in the region of £350,000 and had an overdraft and other loans totaling in the region of £2million

Anticipated changes for the 2007 summer season include: The "war of the robots" being moved from its current location by the drop slide to in front of the sea legs play area in place of the "nice ice" kiosk. There are not expected to be any new rides for 2007 due to the Kingsford Venue being so much over budget in its construction. There possibly wont be any new ride in 2008 either

[edit] External links

• Website: http://www.flambards.co.uk