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 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.

John Ling’s memories of a travelling life, recorded by Stephen Smith on cassette tape format.

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 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 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, Llanfairpwllgeyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. 72pp, illustrated. Includes postcard of St Ives.

Isle of Anglesey Vintage Rally, Llanfairpwllgeyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. 80pp, illustrated.

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.

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.

This collection contains colour photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, organs and transport taken by Jack Stephens.

Letterheaded paper, advertising James Hibbert, Public Amusement, Cater and Carnival Provider of 19 Bloom Street, Stockport. Blue text, and illustrations showing mechanical poultry farm abd jumping horses steam powered circular roundabouts, 1p.

Colour photographs of fairground transport and rides taken by Jim Bassett.

Black and white copy prints and negatives and three items of ephemera relating to the Williams family.

Notes for Joe Fletcher (1919-2004) obituary and funeral service card with Hymn.

Black and white photographs of fairground rides, transport, sideshows, boxing booths and showmen and women.

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.

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.

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