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25 Years of Illuminating the London Skyline

Since March 9th, 2000, the London Eye has established itself as a defining feature of the British landscape. As the crowd-pleasing heart of London, tourists flock from around the world...

Winter Works @ Alton Towers

A busy start to 2025 for Garmendale has been filled with installations, ride manufacturing, and winter shutdown works. As soon as the 2024 theme park season ended, our phones were...

New Additions To Our RG-11 Gating System Fleet

Already we are somehow nearly 3 months in to 2025.  What a start to the year it has been for Garmendale Engineering, refurbishments with a few of our favourite clients,...

Winter (Shutdown) Is Coming

With Halloween in the rearview, the festive season is on the way, and fast approaching for most UK theme parks is winter shutdown. As the theme park season winds down,...

Celebrating A Very Special Birthday!

This August is the 90th Anniversary of arguably Denmark’s finest export and the Universes favourite toy. LEGO is one of the world’s most recognisable brands, with toys, films, tv shows,...

New fitting shop for Garmendale

Over the last year or two, there has been significant growth at Garmendale. We've grown our design, fabrication and fitting teams to be able to deliver this work. What this...

The Planes are flying home to Oakwood Theme Park Aerodrome

Here's a sneak preview of some of the planes from the Aerodrome Ride at Oakwood Theme Park having been completely refurbished and repainted.  Each of the planes has been totally...

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

At Garmendale, we have created train rides since the 1980s. Our range of electric cars have been delivering fun and excitement for kids at both Legoland Windsor and Sundown Adventureland...

Finish Line signage for Ascot Racecourse

Ascot Racecourse is one of the leading racecourses in the UK and hosts 26 days of top class racing, including nine Group 1 Flat Races. The course itself was founded...

Bubbleworks refurbishment – Chessington World of Adventures

Bubbleworks was originally opened in 1990 and built by Mack Rides. It’s a six minute dark ride that was designed to carry 1,200 passengers per hour in four person circular...