Fairs
Found in 112 Collections and/or Records:
Harry Lee Collection
Photographs, posters and other documents relating to Waddington family Steam Yacht.
Harry Poole Collection
Black and white photographs of rides, engines, shows and acts as well as scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings from 'The World's Fair' including British Fairground Society Notes, 1949-1963 and scrapbooks relating to fairs, particularly in the Lancashire area.
Harry Russell Collection
This collection contains photographs of Oxfordshire Fairs, Showmen and preservation societies.
H.F. Pinder Collection
Business records, newspaper cuttings and photgraphs related to the H.F. Pinder fairground family.
Holloway Family Collection
Business records related to the fairground and theatre, posters and photographs of performers and showmen.
Hull Fair Project Collection
Research material used for the Hull Fair Project exhibition and DVD including audio visual material, digitised images, oral history and transcripts.
Ian Cawthorne Collection
Colour photographs of fairground transport, living wagons and rides taken by Ian Cawthorne on his travels around the fairs.
Ilkeston Fair Collection
This collection contains documents relating to Ilkeston Charter Fair.
Jack Leeson Collection
Photographs and negatives, both collected and taken by him as well as notebooks with detailed lists of every fair visited. Jack Leeson used an elaborate system of cross-referencing which match the photographs and Jack's account of the fair. Also included are letters, scrapbooks and a collection of records of fairground music and some fairground models.
Jack Stephens Collection
This collection contains colour photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, organs and transport taken by Jack Stephens.
Jack Wilkinson Collection
Jim Bassett Collection
Colour photographs of fairground transport and rides taken by Jim Bassett.
Jimmy Williams Collection
Black and white copy prints and negatives and three items of ephemera relating to the Williams family.
Joe Hives Collection
Black and white photographs of fairground rides, transport, sideshows, boxing booths and showmen and women.
John and Mabel Strudwick Collection
This collection contains black and white and colour photographs and postcards, some originals and some copies, including one World War I soldier photograph, and some colour photographs, as well as a newspaper clipping, a baptism certificate and a recent letter from BBC Northamptonshire.
John Gale Collection
Photographs taken by John Gale, including a collection of negatives from his favourite fairs: Newcastle Town Moor, Durham Miners' Gala, Houghton Feast, Northallerton and his home town of Wolsingham. There are also a number of newspaper cuttings, circus and rally programmes.
John Martin Turner's Circus Research Collection
This collection contains John Turner’s research on circus people indexes, which lists circus performers from the Victorian age onwards. It contains notebooks, index cards, photocopies and pictures gathered from a number of repositories and libraries during John Turner’s life and used for articles published in a variety of journals and magazines, and for the numerous books that he published during his lifetime. The collection also contains some posters and programmes
John Robinson Collection
Colour and black and white photographs of fairgrounds icluding some of Dorset Steam Fair from the collection of John Robinson and the late Fred Robinson.
Lionel Bathe Collection
Colour and black and white negatives containing fairground and circus images and accompanying index notebooks.
Liz Gray Collection
This collection contains a small amount of postcards from the 1908 Franco-British exhibition in London and two videos, one about the Priddy fair and another one about the Cole fairground family.