Amusement rides

Ghost Train Track Blueprint, c1930 - 1939

Item

Reference code: 178M15.32(xxvi)

Scope and Contents

Layout of Bourmouth ghost train track by Messrs Orton, Sons & Sooner, scale 1/2". Drawing W3841.

Dates: c1930 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Blueprints for Ride Structures and Platforms

Ghost Train Track Blueprint, 6 October 1931

Item

Reference code: 178M15.29(xxx)

Scope and Contents

Layout of ghost train tracks for Brixton, using rails from drawing X384, scale 1/4". Drawing X437.

Dates: 6 October 1931

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Fairground Ride Layout Plans and Blueprints

Ghost Train Track Blueprint, 5 May 1931

Item

Reference code: 178M15.29(xxxii)

Scope and Contents

Proposed layout of track for ghost train, scale 1/4" by Messrs Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd. Drawing X363a.

Dates: 5 May 1931

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Fairground Ride Layout Plans and Blueprints

Ghost Train Track Blueprint, 13 April 1932

Item

Reference code: 178M15.29(xxxiii)

Scope and Contents

Layout for ghost train track for Hastings, scale 1/2" by Messrs Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd. Drawing X519.

Dates: 13 April 1932

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Fairground Ride Layout Plans and Blueprints

Ghost Train Track Drawing, c1930 - 1939

Item

Reference code: 178M15.28(xxxix)

Scope and Contents

Layout of No.6 ghost train track for Ramsgate, scale 1/4" on tracing paper.

Dates: c1930 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Blueprints for Fairground Ride Designs and Mechanisms

Gondola Sketch, c1940 - 1949

Item

Reference code: 178V21.1

Scope and Contents

Pencil sketch of a gondola with a dragon's head by Margaret Whitaker.

Dates: c1940 - 1949

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Margaret Whitaker Collection / Original Artwork

Gondola Works Auction Catalogue, 1933

Item

Reference code: 178J4.2

Scope and Contents

Printed auction catalogue for Gondola Works, Walsall detailing fairground equipment and business equipment to be sold by auction on Friday 24 March 1933 through the services of Cave’s Auctioneers.

Dates: 1933

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Stuart Johnstone Collection / Auction Catalogues

Goose Fair, 1999

Item — Box Dick Price Box 21: Series 178D3

Reference code: 178D3.20

Scope and Contents

VHS tape titled, 'Goose Fair', filmed by Dave Homer. Includes footage of the Nottingham Goose Fair. Duration: 135 minutes.

Dates: 1999

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Dick Price Collection / Films

G.R. Hawthorne Bibliography, c1960 - 1969

Item

Reference code: 178J5.1

Scope and Contents

List of books, drawings and photographs about steam engines available from G.R. Hawthorne, Reading, compiled by David Braithwaite.

Dates: c1960 - 1969

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / David Braithwaite Collection / Bibliographies

Graham Downie Collection

Fonds

Reference code: NFA0006

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1960 - 1996

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Gravesend, Witney, Mitcham, Hastings, Cheltenham Film, 1960

Item

Reference code: 178D8.4

Scope and Contents

Amateur film shot by George Bolesworth of British fairs. 8mm format. No leader. Silent

Dates: 1960

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / George Bolesworth Collection / Film

Groupe Gaston Reverchon International Design Trade Sheet, c2005

Item

Reference code: 178I7.19

Scope and Contents

Groupe Gaston Reverchon trade sheet for profiler bumper car. Samois, France, 1p. with illlustration.

Dates: c2005

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / David Braithwaite Collection / Trade and Advertising Material

Guide and Game Book to Chessington World of Adventures, 2003

Item

Reference code: 178Z55.6

Scope and Contents

Guide book to Chessington World of Adventures, with games and vouchers. Light blue background with red, blue, green and orange type, and a colour image of a ride at the park.

Dates: 2003