It entertained thousands of thrill-seeking Mancunians and people from all across the globe.

And now this amazing footage lets viewers relive the incredible dips and dives of the Bobs rollercoaster at Belle Vue’s iconic fairground .

The attraction was arguably the park’s most popular ride, named after the the price of admission onto one of its cars which cost a bob, or shilling.

The clip – believed to have been taken around 50 years ago - shows a first-person view of a passenger on the huge ride as it flies over 80ft drops and whizzes around the track at a 45 degree angle.

Bobs was built by American engineer and early roller coaster designer Harry Traver and designed by Fredrick Church, who developed a series of engineering innovations to make the ride possible.

The ride’s distinctive white-painted wooden superstructure became an imposing element of the Belle Vue skyline, with its cars racing around at 60 miles per hour and thrilling visitors to the attraction.

The video was shared with the M.E.N. after being posted on the Manchester History Revisited Facebook page, which was started by Stockport resident Mark Taylor three years ago and has amassed almost 15,000 likes.

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Mark, 35, said: “The clip was sent in to me by the son of the gentleman that filmed it – it really is amazing.

“There’s lots of interest in Belle Vue on my page and people love to remembering going there when they were younger.

“It’s great to think that the page I started has had so many likes and brilliant to see people come and share their memories of Manchester on it. People post from all across the globe talking about their time spent in the city and across the region.”

During its 150 years in operation Belle Vue’s zoological gardens and fairground wowed millions with its exotic blend of wild animals and dizzying rides.

Opened in 1836, Belle Vue zoo started life as a small private collection of birds owned by gardener John Jennison.

But his vision for a vast Victorian amusement park soon saw it blossom into much more – Manchester’s very own theme park.

By the early 20th century its collection of animals – from Asian elephants to chimpanzees – was being sold as the ‘showground of the world’, eventually making it one of the north’s most popular tourist attractions and the country’s third largest zoo.

But spiralling debts saw the zoo wound up in the 1970s and the park closed its gates in 1982.