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Billy Bellhouse Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0038
Scope and Contents

Photographs, handbills, newspaper reports and financial records relating to Billy Bellhouse and his life as a wall of death rider as well as other performers.

Dates: 1914 - 1960; 2016

British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0134
Scope and Contents

Minutes of meetings of the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions and some historical information regarding the organisations’ anniversary celebrations.

Dates: 1936; 1950 - 1996; 2002 - 2004

Cathy Ward Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0132
Scope and Contents

This collection contains digital colour photographs of fairground rides, fairground art and showpeople from both travelling fairgrounds and amusement parks in Salzberg fair, Blackpool and various other places in the UK and abroad.

Dates: 1985 - 2002

Frankie Roberto Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0155
Scope and Contents

Photographs, programmes, plans, trade and advertising material, tickets, badges and other items of ephemera for British theme parks and attractions, including Alton Towers, Pleasure Land, Thorpe Park and Legoland.

Dates: c1900 - 2006

Jack Wilkinson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0168
Scope and Contents Black and white and colour photographs and negatives of fairgrounds, fairground organs, steam engines and other transportation systems with annotations by Jack Wilkinson and other sources, such as William Keating, James Davidson, Philip Bradley and Jack Mellor, as well as notebooks, scrapbooks, journals, books, correspondence, research material, audio tapes of fairground organ music and some 3D items including Jack's recording equipment and a model of a fairground organ. Jack Wilkinson’s...
Dates: c1900 - 1979

Joe Stumcke Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0162
Scope and Contents

This collection contains scrapbooks, programmes, photographs of performers at the Kursaal, Bertram Mills Circus and sideshows as well as some business records related to the Stumcke family and their work at the Kursaal and Bertram Mills Circus.

Dates: 1829 - 1974

Leisure Parcs-Six Piers Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0115
Scope and Contents

Maps, charts and plans of Rhyl fairground, Blackpool, Battersea, Belle Vue and other parks.

Dates: 1910 - 1985

Paul Angel Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0059
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs both taken and collected by Paul Angel, associated notes, newspaper cuttings and 2 videos relating to fairs, seaside and amusement parks and the preservation movement.

Dates: 1970 - 2005

Peter Wellen Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0096
Scope and Contents

The collection contains black and white and colour prints of fairground rides and transport, mainly of British southern counties fairs and rallies in the 1960s. There are also some American amusement park images, manuscripts for the first 6 issues of 'Century of Tobers' (Fairground Association of Great Britain) magazine, a small selection of calendars produced by Carters funfair and commercially produced DVDs on the fairground and preservation movement.

Dates: c1967 - 2012

Ronald Allen Taylor Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0015
Scope and Contents

The collection contains photographs in twenty two albums taken by Taylor and other photographers, correspondence and a number of catalogues including his Dodgem research material.

Dates: c1900 - 1991

Rowland Scott Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0037
Scope and Contents

Photographs related to all aspects of British travelling fairgrounds including; rides, transport, living wagons, showpeople, fairground shows, circuses and organs by Rowland Scott and other authors, a selection of manuscripts by Rowland Scott and a small amount of correspondence.

Dates: c1899 - 1989

Sanger Circus Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0154
Scope and Contents

Black and white and some colour photographs, negatives, handbills, programmes and other items of ephemera relating George Sanger's circus and the Hall by the Sea.

Dates: c1850 - 1945

Sanger Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0166
Scope and Contents

This collection contains black and white photographs of George Sanger's Circus, photocopies of newspaper cuttings related to the Sanger Family and original drawings for costume designs by June Dick.

Dates: c1900 - 2018

Ted Lightbown Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0088
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: c1910 - 1999

WGH Rides Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0133
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises 27 years of the WGH company’s business history. The collection is split between physical and digital born records and contains project files, financial information, designs, photographs, drawings, plans and some samples of 3D ride models.

Dates: 1989 - 2016

Zoe Beloff Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0116
Scope and Contents Archive of the Blackpool chapter of Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and their Circle1926-1972 comprising; 12 framed humorous postcards from Blackpool mounted on A4 paper with hand written text, 18 framed pieces of A4 size letters containing typed text and drawings and watercolours, 1 large hand drawn piece with text a hand drawn introduction to the material described above, 14 black and white photographs of people, 32 negatives of landscapes and people, 5...
Dates: 1929 - 2013

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Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 3
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 2
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 2
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Leisure Parcs Ltd (1995 - 2016) 2
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 2
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 2
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 2
Alton Towers (Established 1980) 1
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 1
Angel, Paul, c1930 - 2005 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Angolpark (Established 1910) 1
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 1
Bellhouse, Billy (William), 1907 - 1980 1
Beloff, Zoe, Born 1958 1
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 1
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 1
Booth, William, 1829 - 1912 (The General) 1
British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions. (BALPPA) (Established 1936) 1
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 1
Butlins (Established c1920) 1
Carters Steam Fair (1977 - 2022) 1
Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1
Codona (Established c1790) 1
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 1
Corrigan's Amusement Arcades (Established c1960 - 1969) 1
Crow Amusements (Established 1865) 1
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 1
Dick, June, Born 1928 1
Disneyland Paris (Established 1994) 1
Dreamland (Established 1919) 1
Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 1
J.W. Shaw Amusements (Initiated c1860 - 1889) 1
Kelvin Hall (Established 1918) 1
Lee, Harry, 1913 - 1997 1
Legoland (Established 1968) 1
Lightbown, Ted, 1943 - 2022 1
Ling's Family Amusements (Initiated c1850 - 1859) 1
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
Magical Kingdom of Camelot (1983 - 2012) 1
Manders (Established 1850) 1
Manning Carnival Fun Fairs (Established 1850) 1
Mellor, Jack, c1894 - 1979 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Mellors Group Events (Established 1890) 1
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 1
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 1
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 1
Paultons Park (Established 1983) 1
Roberto, Frankie, Born c1985 (Theme Park Enthusiast) 1
Roger Tuby & Son Funfairs (Established c1871) 1
S.D.C. (c1960 - 1993) (Amusement Rides Manufacturers) 1
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 1
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 1
Scott, Rowland, 1921 - 1998 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Scrivens, Kevin, Born c1960 1
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 1
Silcocks Fun Fairs (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
Six Piers Plc (1993 - 2020) 1
Steptoe, Brian, Born c1960 1
Stumcke, Joe (Joseph), 1926 - 2017 1
Taylor, Ronald Allen, 1925 - 1994 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
The American Adventure (1987 - 2007) 1
The Kursaal (1894 - 2020) 1
Thomas Whitelegg & Sons Ltd (Established c1880 - 1899) 1
Thorpe Park (Established 1979) 1
W. Marshall Amusements (Established c1986) 1
WGH Transport Engineering Ltd. (1989 - 2016) 1
Waddington's Funfairs (Initiated c1860 - 1899) 1
Wallis' Amusements (Established 1883) 1
Ward, Cathy (Catherine), Active 1985 - 2002 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Wellen, Peter, 1932 - 2011 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Wilkinson, Jack, 1904 - 1979 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Williams, Randall Kay, 1846 - 1898 1
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