Sideshows
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Orton and Spooner Collection
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.
Photographic Album, 1937 - 1941
Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, steam engines and transport, circus, wall of death and fairground shows including Holland, Pat Collins, Butlin, Tom Norman, Manning, Pullen, Ling, Farrar, Tuby, Whitelegg and Anderton and Rowland at Huddersfield, Holmfirth, Lincoln Fair, Horton Feast, Manningham Feast and other locations and showmen with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 20p.p.
Photographic Album, 1899 - 1955
Photographs and Postcards, c1899 - 1969
Photographs, postcards and negatives of fairgrounds taken by Rowland Scott and other fairground enthusiasts.
Rowland Scott Collection
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.