Photographs, c1974 - 1999
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
Topical
Repository Details
Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
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