Scrivens and Smith Collection
Scope and Contents
Colour photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides and scenes and black and white photographs of Lang Wheels dodgem cars and two artist's impressions of Lang Wheels aerodrome. Also contains cassette recordings of showman John Ling's memories of travelling life.
Dates
- Creation: c1950 - 1994
Creator
- Scrivens, Kevin, Born c1960 (Person)
- Smith, Stephen, Born c1960 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Items are available to view by appointment in the NFCA reading room Audio equipment must be booked prior to visit
Conditions Governing Use
Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of the National Fairground and Circus Archive,subject to copyright law and the condition of the material
Biographical / Historical
Kevin Scrivens and Stephen Smith are fairground historians and authors who run New Era publications. They have researched and published a large number of books and provided articles for journals relating to the history of Showmen.
Extent
4 Box(es) (2,398 photographs and 3 audio cassette recordings )
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Catalogued according to type
Existence and Location of Copies
Audio material digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project led by the British Library 2021.
Subject
- Ling's Family Amusements (Initiated c1850 - 1859) (Organisation)
Cultural context
Occupation
Topical
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Created by Ian Trowell, updated by Arantza Barrutia on Finding Aid Date field date
- Date
- 19 August 2015
- Description rules
- International Standard for Archival Description - General
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
0114 222 7231
lib-special@sheffield.ac.uk