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Amy Goodwin Collection
Film about Amy and her work made by NFCA staff and examples of sign painting done for the Orton and Spooner exhibition in 2022.
Anderton and Rowland Collection
This collection contains copies of original photographs and photocopies of newspaper cuttings relating to the Anderton and Rowland families and their business on the fairground.
Arthur Jones Collection
The photograph library of the Friendship Circle of Showland Fans (FCFS). This collection includes material relating to famous fairs, engines and rides. As well as containing a full bound set of 'Merry-Go-Round' journals and numerous books, letters and other journals. The collection includes various catalogues and notebooks documenting the use of traction engines on the fairground.
Bill Weeks Collection
This collection contains photographs of fairgrounds and steam engines, journal articles, newspaper cuttings, correspondence and books on railways, engineering, fairgrounds and other related topics.
Billy Coats Collection
This Collection contains Black and white photographs of fairground rides and people associated to the rides around Stirling.
Bob Chase Collection
Black and white photographs of fairground people by Bob Chase, produced for his final university year project, also includes contact prints, negatives and notes.
Celine Williams Collection
A collection of 5 black and white photographs, four relate to the Silcock Brothers' dodgems and arcades in the 1950s, and one to Whites' stall.
Charles Taylor Collection
The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.
David Braithwaite Collection
This collection contains photographs taken by David Braithwaite from the 1950s and used towards his publications alongside older images collected from other sources as well as business records, monographs, articles, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, advertising material, bibliographies, catalogues, programmes, films and some other miscellaneous items.
Dick Price Collection
Dick Scott-Stewart Collection
Slide transparencies created for the 'Fairground Snaps' book and later projects. The material in this archive is all of Scott-Stewart's work relating to fairs and circuses, particularly from an artistic and social angle. This collection covers all the field work completed by the artist in preparing his book, as well as trips following the publication.
George McIndoe Collection
Photographs, slides, newspaper cuttings related to the Biddall family and photographs of Kirkaldy Fair created for a documentary on Scottish fairs.
George Tucker Collection
This collection comprises fairground photographs and 3 members' cards, two from Yorkshire Stall Holders Association and one from the Yorkshire section of the Showmen's Guild
Graham Downie Collection
This collection contains photographs of ex-service showmen taking part in the 1994 Remembrance Day Parade, trade literature, calendars, posters, a monograph from the Alcester & District Local History Society and Charlie Merrin's paperwork for the 1989 centenary fair in Hyde Park.
Harry Lee Collection
Photographs, posters and other documents relating to Waddington family Steam Yacht.
Harry Poole Collection
Black and white photographs of rides, engines, shows and acts as well as scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings from 'The World's Fair' including British Fairground Society Notes, 1949-1963 and scrapbooks relating to fairs, particularly in the Lancashire area.
Harry Russell Collection
This collection contains photographs of Oxfordshire Fairs, Showmen and preservation societies.
Hull Fair Project Collection
Research material used for the Hull Fair Project exhibition and DVD including audio visual material, digitised images, oral history and transcripts.
Jack Leeson Collection
Photographs and negatives, both collected and taken by him as well as notebooks with detailed lists of every fair visited. Jack Leeson used an elaborate system of cross-referencing which match the photographs and Jack's account of the fair. Also included are letters, scrapbooks and a collection of records of fairground music and some fairground models.