Thorpe Park has a very interesting history. It previously  was the site of a limestone quarry for concrete. When the Quarry closed in the early 1970s the company that owned it decided upon using it as a place to dump fill dirt until a leisure park could be built upon the newly levelled land. Residents opposed this plan seeing the concept as neither economically viable nor a good idea for the neighbourhood seeing how large the quarry was. It was then decided to fill the large quarry with water so that a park could still be built within the newly formed lagoon. This plan met little resistance and went forward.

Thorpe Park was opened in 1979 with the infamous Earl Louis Mountbatten of Burma in attendance.  Some of the first attractions to open at the newly commissioned park included a 180 degree Cinema  and Aircraft Display, numerous water sports and activities, and the Mountbatten Pavilion 1981 brought the park's first roller coaster Space Station Zero. In 1986 several new attractions were christened including a mini-golf known simply as Crazy Golf and a Roller Skating Rink. in 1987 when it opened the Teacup Ride and spent roughly two million pounds on a brand new rapids ride named Thunder River. The year after the park finished its brand new 630 seat Palladium Theatre.

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