Call for Flambards theme park to reopen for farewell weekend

Mr Terry’s parents were friends of the park’s original owner, Douglas Hale MBE, and took the first photographs of the Victorian village for the theme park’s official postcards when it first opened in the 1970s.

Mr Terry said his mother, Averil, developed a lifelong aversion to mannequins during the photo shoot because she helped set up the photos but was “freaked out by these dead things”, especially when some of their arms fell off.

His father, an engineer at Goonhilly Satellite Station, also put together an exhibition of prototype satellite dish designs he had helped design, Mr Terry said.

And his grandmother donated some Victorian items to the village when it opened, he said.