The Blackpool Pleasure Beach Log Flume was the first of its kind outside America and when it was built in 1967 it was the longest in the world, at 2,500ft (762m). It closed in 2006.
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The Thomspon Challenge was held every August by locals in the Cattle Market pub in Preston until the mid-1990s. The aim of the challenge was to ride each wooden coaster operated by the Thompson family in one day, visiting Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Pleasureland Southport and Frontierland Morecambe.
