Fairs
Found in 1020 Collections and/or Records:
Illustration, c1900 - 1910
Hyde Park Corner-A Showman. Colour copy of illustration.
Indexes to Photographs, 1978 - 2000
Indexes to Paul Angel's photographs. Manuscript.
Interview with Albert Proctor, 1993
Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine. Digital file UTWAM060/6, location of copies X:\National_Fairground_Archive\General\nfa-digitisation\Sound Collections\Neil Calladine Collection. Digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sounds Heritage project by the British Library.
Interview with Fred Cox, 1993
Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.
Interview with Henry Mellors, 18 December 1993
Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on two cassette tapes. Copied from a series of interviews with showpeople from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.
Interview with Horace Parker, 1993
Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on two cassette tapes. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.
Interview with Kate Smart, 1981 - 1982, 25 February 1982, 21 January 1981
Interview with Mrs Kate Smart, Mr Buller Hatwell and other showmen/women conducted by Rod Spooner at Barnt Green and Cassington on cassette tape format. First four people interviewed on 25 February 1982 at George Smart’s house, Barnt Green, Birmingham. Buller Hatwell interviewed at Cassington, nr. Oxford on 21 January 1981.
Interview with Margaret Bird (nee) Shufflebottom, 15 June 1993
Interview with Margaret Bird, formerly Mrs Margaret Waddington (nee) Shufflebottom. Interview conducted by Brian Steptoe at Bramerton, Norfolk. Audio casette recording and ten pages typed transcript. Copy of original. Digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project led by the British Library 2021.
Interview with Mr Hall, 1993
Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.
Interview with Mrs Corrigan, 1993
Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.
Interview with Showman John Ling , 1991
John Ling’s memories of a travelling life, recorded by Stephen Smith on cassette tape format.
Interview with Sid Hibble and Henry Mellors, 1993
Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.
Interview with Tom Jervis, 1993
Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.
Invoices and Receipts, 1931 - 1956
Invoices and receipts related to the Dobson family business in the fairground, including correspondence with the Showmen's Guild, the purchase of a juvenile ride, application for ground at Birmingham Onion Fair and market and fair tolls.
Isle of Anglesey Vintage Rally Programme, 21 - 22 May 1983
Isle of Anglesey Vintage Rally, Llanfairpwllgeyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. 72pp, illustrated. Includes postcard of St Ives.
Isle of Anglesey Vintage Rally Programme, 18 - 19 May 1985
Isle of Anglesey Vintage Rally, Llanfairpwllgeyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. 80pp, illustrated.
J. Coneley and Sons Amusement Fair Poster, c1980 - 1989
Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Red and black type over yellow background with illustration of the dodgems in black in the centre. Printed by Wilsons printers Ltd. Leicester.
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.