Ocean Beach, Rhyl

Ocean Beach was an amusement park in Rhyl, North Wales which operated from 1954 until 2 September 2007.

The Ocean Beach funfair opened in the 1890s, growing into an amusement park at Marine Lake which was seeing thousands of visitors annually.

[1] The town and the park declined in popularity since the 1960s and there had been very little investment in new rides or attractions in its final years.

[2] Plans to build a retail, leisure and housing complex on the site of the old Ocean Beach site, known as Ocean Plaza, was due to commence in May 2009 but were delayed and ultimately scrapped.

[3] As of 2015, plans for the site (now downsized and to be a retail-only park called Marina Quay) were approved, and stores began to open there in stages from 2017.