Buying memories: Pleasure Island comes under the hammer

And for the many with fond memories of Pleasure Island at Cleethorpes, now is the chance to buy a piece of history as hundreds of fittings and fixtures from the legendary theme park go up for auction.

Fancy Shrieksville, a ghost ride, with macabre skeletons in shrouds and ghoulish graveyard scenes? Yours for £60,000 to £80,000. Or maybe, from the Tommy Tinkaboo sweet factory, an indoors water-boat ride for young children, a candy throne, a Toffee Head in a satin suit and bow-tie, or even a cow with startled expression and large bony rump, connected up to a Chocolate Mixing Machine.