Tucktonia 1981 

I worked there in 1974/5. Drove the train for a while. Local kids would try to derail it by placing stones on the track. It was a fun and care free summer job. Opened a swimming pools in 1975 and I was nominated a lifeguard as I was a pretty good swimmer.

This is Christchurch. Homes and apartments now stand where Tucktonia was. I spent many a happy time at Tucktonia.

That was great having a trip down memory lane 👍 loved Tucktonia 🤩 thanks x

Wow. Fond memories of being taken there every summer holiday in the early 80's. Many of those rides would be deemed highly unsafe now, but back then we had a ball!!! Loved the model village too!

Quality,my dad was the MD at Tucktonia,good to see these old videos.

We use to stay at Bashley Park near New Milton and would always go to Tucktonia on our holidays. Brought back some good childhood memories of the late 70's and early 80's ☺

Had a dream about this place last night - used to visit in late 70's as my grandparents lived in Southbourne. Wow what a blast from the past!

Shame this place got canned.. Great video. Thanks

Loving the baby at the start with the Mohican ! :D

Oh they were the days.My father would take me and my brother there in the late 70's early 80's.Amazing footage thank you

A health and safety nightmare :) I go past that place everyday and never even knew what was there before, but now I do and find it fascinating, your videos are a great snapshot of early 80s everyday life.. thanks for sharing.

I have photo's of myself and my brother on those "bouncy boats" taken by our parents at about the same time this film would have been recorded. I can't remember all of the deaths or serious injuries that occurred at the time due to lack of H & S. Perhaps in heavy industry, but all we have left in that ilk is the construction industry which I have worked in for many years and health and safety has gone mad, a money making machine, nothing more. Anyway that aside, thanks for posting, brings back memories of a nicer UK.

I used to work in the pub😄 and my little brother was the seagull in the suit.... gosh that was such a long time ago 😨

Thank you for the upload, having only heard of Tucktonia, i really enjoyed this video, especially the lovely narrow gauge train. Yes the slide did make me giggle :D

I lived down the road from Tucktonia. It was originally a golf course. We used to steal golf balls and sell them back for sixpence each. Harry Spiller kept his formula one cars at the back of the site. McCarthy and Stone built on the site.

Total chaos that slide. I came out of the sack and ripped all my skin off my leg - like a huge friction burn that took months to heal. Good times!

Tucktonia..."the greatest little Britain in the world"....or so the advert used to say! Spent a lot of my misspent youth at tuckton

Thanks for the memories. Simple pleasures. Nowadays we have constricting H & S laws. Shame this couldn't gave been kept and modernised. There are no such amusement places in the area now.

My bike was stolen from outside the arcade! The zebra from a ride was stolen and left on a nearby roundabout.

I worked there in 1977 - first on the Go-Karts, then driving the train.

awsome, thanks for sharing this, great memories from the 70s

The collision at 5:24 is hilarious.......

Some serious holiday thoughts about this one we was only allowed to go once in our holidays my dad said it was too expensive I would look forward to it I will never forget the day I got off the bus excited out my skull and it was just rubble. To me it was a magical place where the rules of today health and safety didn't exist

Now a Residential Care Home.

i don’t remember tucktonia don’t think i ever went there when did they close it down?

Martin, do you have any videos inside the arcade at Tucktonia as would love to see them? Used to go as a kid and was my favourite ever arcade but cannot find any pics online anywhere!