Amusement rides

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.

Design for Jack and Jill front for Arthur Holland slide, showing a boy and a girl falling forward and a well on top left. Pencil on paper.

Highly finished design drawings for capitel, mirror frame and show fronts including the Jelly Wobble, Chas Relph, Shamrock, Noah’s ark, The Frivol, Arthur Holland’s Jack & Jill slide and half section of outside decoration for roundabout.

End elevation of large boats framework for E. Holland with notes, scale 1".

This collection contains a large selection of archives from the Orton and Spooner Company. The collection comprises photographs and cabinet card images showing carved work, structural work and classic painted work, 4 boxes of notes, invoices and clippings, 8 drawers of plans and blueprints, 2 folders of ride specifications and order forms, accounts books and a library of source books showing turn of the century art used by the artists in the company.

Fairground posters printed by Taylor's of Wombwell, mainly for fairgrounds in Yorkshire, some presented by the Showmen's Guild Yorkshire Section.

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, steam engines, living wagons and showpeople, including Silcock, Pat Collins, Morley, Holland and Hibble & Mellor and other locations and showmen with numbers. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 28p.p some pages empty.

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, steam engines, living wagons, boxing, fairground shows, circus and showpeople, including Silcock, Manning, Holland, Waddington, Ling, Butlin, Farrar, Marshall and Pat Collins at Nottingham Goose Fair, Chorley Fair and Southport and other locations and showmen with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 16p.p.