The UKs Forgotten Rollercoaster Crash: The Big Dipper | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

This short documentary explores the history of Battersea Park's Big Dipper, and the fatal crash that took place on it in 1972...

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CHAPTERS: 🔖
► 00:00 - Intro
► 00:39 - History of the Big Dipper
► 04:40 - The Battersea Big Dipper Crash
► 07:44 - Investigation and Aftermath

MUSIC: 🎵
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES: 📑
► "Battersea Park big dipper disaster in 1972: The funfair tragedy the nation forgot" by Jamie Merrill, published by The Independent, June 2015. Link: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...
► "Battersea Park funfair disaster: First memorial unveiled" published by BBC News, May 2022. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...
► "Battersea Festival Gardens 1951" by Phil Gould, published by Joyland Books, May 2011. Link: https://www.joylandbooks.com/themagic...
► "The Battersea Funfair disaster where five children died but parents never got justice" by Robert Preedy and Callum Cuddeford, published by MyLondon, May 2022. Link: https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-...
► "The Festival of Britain 1951" published by The History Press, May 2017. Link: https://thehistorypress.co.uk/article...
► "The Battersea Big Dipper disaster - 50 Years on" published by BBC Radio London, May 2022. Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0c9...

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