Sad day for Worthing....Peter Pans is no more.

[vegster]

Un-f***ing-believable. You never had a game with 30 kids with cutlasses defending The Castle then did you ? The Helter Skelter was temporarily dismantled and taken to Brighton pier for a film one summer - A Carry on film if memory serves me right - but luckily we got it back. It hasn`t been the same for many many years though and my kids never ated it lke we did. The parrallel slides, the helter skelter, the castle, the dolls house ? You bloody retract those comments vegster or you I`ll run you through.

(edit : just read the Bovian post... of course Oh what a lovely war)

I'll not retract a word, it was always tatty and overrated, I was made to go there and play with oiks and common ruffians when I could have been doing something useful like reading.

 

[Questions]

I'll not retract a word, it was always tatty and overrated, I was made to go there and play with oiks and common ruffians when I could have been doing something useful like reading.

You wouldn`t have been allowed on the helter skelter with those national health bins anyway Speccy.

 

[Vatican Citys No.2 Keeper]

And the football team crashed out of the fa cup today. Cup dream over for the Rebels.

Don't get me started...cos of our managers complete disregard for the FA Cup and playing our reserve side our season i over...we will do f all in the league!

Our forum is full of anger from supporters, myself included, who spent A LOT of money to get to Enfield today....not a happy Rebel here

 

[Screaming J]

I'd forgotten all about Peter Pans. I was born in Littlehampton and my Mum & Dad used to leave me and my sister there whenever they went shopping in Worthing in the early 1960's.

Happy days !!

 

[Pavilionaire]

Ironic name that, Peter Pans. The playground that lives forever. Now shut.

Reminds me of Tim in The Office describing clubs in Slough:

"...then there's New York New York, the "Club that never sleeps"...that shuts at 2."

 

[Brovion]

It wasn't just the playground. There was also the paddling pool, a boating 'lake' (ok, a sort of rectangle) and just in front of PP's itself was a little circuit of tarmac where they used to have battery-operated cars. And of course the beach just a few yards away.

I can assure the youngsters on here that back in the early to mid 60s it was a veritable DISNEYLAND. Especially to us Croydon kids.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

It wasn't just the playground. There was also the paddling pool, a boating 'lake' (ok, a sort of rectangle) and just in front of PP's itself was a little circuit of tarmac where they used to have battery-operated cars. And of course the beach just a few yards away.

I can assure the youngsters on here that back in the early to mid 60s it was a veritable DISNEYLAND. Especially to us Croydon kids.

To be fair - Worthing municipal rubbish tip would have been Disneyland to anyone from Croydon, then and now.

 

[The Peanut Roaster]

To be fair - Worthing municipal rubbish tip would have been Disneyland to anyone from Croydon, then and now.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

My Mum took us there often in the Summers - must have been early 70's. Seemed so exciting. I recall sort of concrete streams which seemed to fascinate me for hours.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

 

[Brovion]

My Mum took us there often in the Summers - must have been early 70's. Seemed so exciting. I recall sort of concrete streams which seemed to fascinate me for hours.

You're not confusing it with Brooklands are you? When that first opened it had an amazing waterfall/stream/pool system.

 

[Brovion]

To be fair - Worthing municipal rubbish tip would have been Disneyland to anyone from Croydon, then and now.

At least coming from Croydon I was tough enough to beat up the wussy local kids and nick theiir ice creams!

 

[Giraffe]

Don't get me started...cos of our managers complete disregard for the FA Cup and playing our reserve side our season i over...we will do f all in the league!

Our forum is full of anger from supporters, myself included, who spent A LOT of money to get to Enfield today....not a happy Rebel here

Completely mental I would say. As a passing local observer of Worthing Football Club I can't help but wonder why the hell you wouldn't take the FA Cup seriously. Surely it is the biggest chance of a pay day the club has? And I believe they have no money. Completely nuts.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

You're not confusing it with Brooklands are you? When that first opened it had an amazing waterfall/stream/pool system.

I am. Move along. Nothing to see here.

 

[Stoichkov]

Is the site earmarked for anything else, or could a playground be reopened there?

The new swimming pool is being built on the site. Seems a shame to lose something that is still popular.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

The new swimming pool is being built on the site. Seems a shame to lose something that is still popular.

That makes me feel old - I remember the Aquarena being built

 

[Marc]

I went to Pans when I was a kid back in the early 80s, I remember it being cold!

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Looking back it probably was tatty, but for a kid growing up in Worthing there wasn't much else in the 60's and 70's. Oh those rough mats and the swing boats.

Peter Pans, hot summer days in the paddling pool. Fish and chips from Worleys.

Grazed legs and arms from the rough concrete edges in the Lido.

Saturday morning pictures at the Odeon.

Kit Napier..................Those were the days.