The New Palace after the War
The war came to an end and the New Palace was filled with all the latest amusement equipment.
In 1957, WH Wilkie left New Brighton to take his Travelling Circus to South Africa, leaving the New Palace to his son George (also known as Bill Wilkie).
The New Palace Amusement Centre ran very successfully up until the mid 1960s when customer numbers started to drop due to the increasingly popular 'package holidays' abroad, which families were now taking in place of British holidays.
Sadly, by the late 1980s, New Brighton had very little to offer as a holiday resort...