The Most British Theme Park You've Never Heard Of | Fascinating History
Once upon a time there existed a truly unique theme park in the town of Chatham in the south of England: Dickens World... Fascinating History posts weekly videos about infamous flops, failures and mistakes from throughout history... and whatever other weird stories from the past catch my eye. Thanks for watching! LINKS: 🔗 ► My other channel:    / @fascinatinghorror  ► Support this channel:   / fascinatinghorror  |    / @fascinatinghistoric  ► Follow me:   / funhistorytales  |   / funhistorytales  |   / funhistorictales  ► Get in touch: [email protected] CHAPTERS: 🔖 ► 00:00 - Intro ► 00:44 - Background ► 05:07 - Field Trip! ► 13:10 - The Fate of Dickens World MUSIC: 🎵 ► "Seagull" by Telecasted ► "Sugar High" by Jeremy Korpas ► Cash Register Sound by Zott820 via Freesound ILLUSTRATIONS: 🎨 ► Comics by Emma Galloway (https://artofemmag.carrd.co/) SOURCES: 📑 ► "What the Dickens?" by Rob McFarland, published by The Sydney Morning Herald, October 2007. Link: https://www.smh.com.au/world/what-the... ► "Hard times at Dickens World: the curious saga of Kent's £62 million literary theme park" by Tom Fordy, published by The Telegraph, December 2017. Link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/new... ► "Dickens World proves too popular" published by BBC News, May 2007. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/ke... ► "The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut" by Sam Anderson, published by The New York Times, February 2012. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/ma... ► "Great expectations?" by Finlo Rohrer, published by BBC News Magazine, April 2007. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6... Dickens World TripAdvisor Review Page, published by TripAdvisor. Link: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attract... ► "What, the Dickens World?" published by The Times. Link: https://www.thetimes.com/business/com... ► "What the Dickens?" by Simon Swift, published by The Guardian, April 2007. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/books/200... #history #failure #disaster #business #mistakes #themepark

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