Porthcawl's beloved Coney Beach amusement park to close within months

I'm very sorry very sad to hear that Coney Beach Amusement Park will being closing their gates at the end of the Season it's been there in Porthcawl since 1918 hard working people who live in South Wales and further afield have enjoyed spending their leisure time there on day trips, week-end breaks, and even fortnight holidays.

Porthcawl has always been a very popular resort so why has this happened, Porthcawl is a large town there are very wealthy parts of Porthcawl I think these people disliked the Amusement Park they disliked the Caravaners and decided to get the right people on the local Council and destroy Porthcawl as a holiday resort, they have succeeded first it was the Sandy Bay Caravan Park and now Coney Beach Amusement Park, everyone I know is saddened to hear this news what a silly country Wales has become, there's no respect for hard working people's leisure time.

Lugwho · 61-69, M

Barry's in Portrush went through a similar fate a few years ago. It seemed certain to be developed into flats. Miraculously it has reopened as Curry's amusements. I suspect everyone still calls it Barry's.

senghenydd · M

@Lugwho Council and Governments nowadays are making the wrong decisions, Portrush were lucky, Amusement Parks are taken for granted Coney Beach was always full of holidaymakers and making a nice profit everyone were happy at least that's what I thought.