History Hunters home Blackpool home Raikes Hall team the rise and rise of the working class holiday team the movers and shakers team [Blackpool history] Blackpool Tower [Blackpool Pleasure Beach] the Great Wheel the Foreshore by-law landladies and boarding house maps evidence and finds glossary Blackpool resources	Blackpool Pleasure Beach Sir Hiram Maxim's Captive Flying Machine opened on 1 August 1904 -- the first ride on what was to become the Pleasure Beach -- and is still running today. There was a similar ride at Crystal Palace Sir Hiram Maxim's Captive Flying Machine as depicted by a comic postcard artist Sir Hiram Maxim's Captive Flying Machine in 1998 -- the boats have been replaced by rockets The Noah's Ark of 1922 -- the cubist animals were replaced in 1961