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Photographs, c1974 - 1999

 Series
Reference code: 178C49

Scope and Contents

4565 colour photographs and associated negatives relating to fairs, fairground amusements, vehicles and transport, compiled by Dick Price. Includes photographs of waltzers, dodgems, chairoplanes, gallopers, host traines, big wheels, helter skelter, flat lorries, box lorries, sheeted lorries, framed lorries, living wagons, tractors and other vehicles taken at different fairs and locations across the United Kingdom. Notably includes photographs taken at Nottingham Goose Fair, Newcastle Town Moor Fair, Knutsford May Fair, Hull Pleasure Fair, Kirkcaldy Links Market, Southport Pleasureland, Hampstead Heath, West End Pleasure Beach in Morecambe, Botton's Pleasure Beach in Great Yarmouth, Oxford St. Giles Fair, Wanstead Flats, Astle Park Steam Rally, Stourpaine Bushes Steam Fair, Malborough Mop Fair, Dreamland Amuseument Park in Margate and Skegness Pleasure Beach.

Dates

  • Creation: c1974 - 1999

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Items are available to view by appointment in our reading room.

Conditions Governing Use

Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of the National Fairground and Circus Archive, subject to copyright law and condition of the material

Extent

19 Box(es)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Catalogued according to type

Repository Details

Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository

Contact:
The University of Sheffield
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Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
0114 222 7231