Sideshows
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Blueprints of Plans and Elevation Drawings for Various Fairground Rides, c1875 - 1939
Blueprints of Plans and Elevations for Various Fairground Rides and Details, c1915 - 1949
Bostock's Menagerie Front Design, c1890 - 1910
Front elevation of Bostock's menagerie, showing heaving carving jungle decorations, scale.
Bostock's Menagerie Front Design, c1880 - 1899
Jungle design wih statues of people and animals for Bostock's menagerie show.
Bostock's Menagerie Front Design, c1890 - 1910
Front elevation of Bostock's menagerie truck, showing heaving carving decorations, scale 3/4".
Boxing Booth Elevation, December 1934
Front elevation of Stewart's boxing booth, scale 3/4".
Broadway Trailer Design, c1920 - 1939
Detailed design for a three dimensional advertising trailer for a show, with text reading Rialo now showing, 100% singing and dancing, showing dancing girls in a city scape full of sky scrappers.
Chamberlain's Show Front Design, c1890 - 1910
Front elevation of Chamberlain's show front with woodcarvings by W.G. Hilton, Burton-on-Trent, containing war and patiotric references
Design Drawings for Ride and Show Fronts, c1880 - 1939
Drawings for ride fronts, shows and carts, including Chamberlain’s show front carved by W.E. Hilton, Bostock’s show front, chalk rubbing for window design, centre pay box for organs, Ghost trains, Corrigan’s front entrance, Smart and Elson sign, Frank Codona’s Speedway, Egyptian Helter Skelter design and Parry’s Famous Shows front.
Drawing for The Jelly Wobble, c1930 - 1939
Design for a show front showing the figure of a women on the left corner and columns with faces on the top section. Pencil on paper.
Drawings for Capitel, Mirror Frame and Show Fronts, c1875 - 1939
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.
Drawings for the Design of Various Decorative Components for Fairground Rides, c1890 - 1939
Designs for showfronts, decorative columns and other decorative features, including the swag entrance for a scenic for Charles Thurston, a Hippodrome swag entrance, the front of switchback and scenic rides, Simnett’s shop front, Parry’s show front and the design for a fireplace. Pencil on paper.
Jungle Design, c1930 - 1939
Art Deco style, colour design for Codona's Jungle ride entrance.
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.
Parry's Show Front Design, c1930 - 1939
Design for Parry's Famous Shows frontage, showing a female and a male figure at either side of the central rounding board, a large stretched, smiling face in the centre and four columms.
Photographs, 1880 - 1950
Black and white photographs and negatives of fairground rides, living wagons, transport, fairground organs, carvings and other artwork from the Orton and Spooner company. Also contains some photographs of employees and showmen.
Plan for Boxing Platform, 1924
Plan for C. Heals' boxing boards platform.
Plans, c1916 - 1939
Blueprints of electric parts for fairground rides supplied by Mather & Platt Ltd and Hackett & Co., Electrical Engineers to Orton and Spooner.
Plans and Sketches for Fairground Rides and Shows, c1875 - 1939
Plans and sketches for rides and shows including swings, trusses for roofs, sleepers and railings for G. Green scenic, specifications for sleepers for M & E Hill, design for abreast gallopers crack, entrance plan for Thurston, platform galloping action, boxing boards for C. Heal, chimney centre and joy wheel.
Ride Entrance Elevation, c1920 - 1939
Design for Holland's showfront entrance with some notes.