Ted Lightbown Collection
Scope and Contents
Promotional photographs from Rhyl pleasure beach and a large number of plans for Rhyl and associated parks. This includes Battersea festival of Britain, the Battersea Amusement Park and client parks for whom Rhyl built water chute structures.
Dates
- Creation: c1910 - 1999
Creator
- Lightbown, Ted, 1943 - 2022 (Person)
- Leisure Parcs Ltd (1995 - 2016) (Organisation)
Conditions Governing Access
PHotographs are available to view in the NFCA reading room by appointment. Other items are being catalogued and are not yet available for research
Conditions Governing Use
Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of National Fairground and Circus Archive, subject to copyright law and condition of the material
Biographical / Historical
Ted Lightbown is a resident and local historian of Blackpool born in 1943. Together with his wife Anne, they have been active in the archiving of the history of Blackpool specifically its Pleasure Beach and Winter Gardens. Over the years, Ted and Anne's efforts have enabled many local heritage projects to gather momentum.
Ted is also the author of various books on Blackpool history including; Blackpool: A Pictorial History, which is a brief and sobering retrospective look at the history of Blackpool and its lost buildings, Blackpool Through Time and Blackpool History Tour, the last two of which he co-authored with Allan W. Wood.
Extent
12 Box(es) (508 photographs and 10 boxes of archive)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Catalogued according to type
Cultural context
Topical
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Created by Ian Trowell, updated by Arantza Barrutia on Finding Aid Date field date
- Date
- 25 February 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