Fairs
Found in 1056 Collections and/or Records:
Research Material on Barbara Buttrick, c1940 - 1959
Research material containing photocopies of Barbara Buttrick’s photographs.
Research on Carters' Gallopers, c1980 - 2000
Research on Carter’s gallopers for book, including some pencil sketches of rides, newspaper and magazine articles and photocopies as well as manuscripts.
Research on F.J. Thomas Coach Builders, c1980 - 2000
Research notes on F.J. Thomas coach builders for swings and living vans, including photocopies of photographs.
Research Related Correspondence, October 1995 - April 1996
Correspondence regarding research on swings and living wagons by F.J. Thomas.
Review of The Fairground Scenics and their Engines Monograph, Published 1952, Revised 1961, Revised 1968
Monograph by J. Rowland Scott, Glossop, published 1952 revised 1961 and 1986. Manuscript, 86p.p.
Revision of Charges Document, c1968
Draft copy of the revision of charges for attending the fair. Handwritten on lined paper, 1p.
Richard Sissons Collection
Colour photographs of personalities and artefacts taken on the first day of the 1995 Sheffield "Mile Long" City Centre funfair by Richard Sissons.
Ride Plan, 22 June 1922
Decorative and functional fittings at King’s Lynn. Drawing 1895/20. Highly detailed drawings of decorative fittings such as figurines, functional brass bearings and rods, crankshafts and platform slides. Savages Ltd.
Rod Spooner Collection
The collection includes photographs taken by Jack Mellor and includes images of fairground rides, sideshows and traction engines. There are copies of Rod Spooner's photographs of South and Midland Fairs from 1952-1953. Also included is a cassette recording of an interview With Kay Smart and other showmen/women.
Roe Green Fair, Kingsbury Poster, 5 - 14 August c1975
Holland. Waltzer, Dodgems. Red and blue type on yellow background.
Roe Green Fair Poster, 4 - 20 August c1975
Kingsbury. Holland. Waltzer, Dodgems. Red and black type on white background.
Ron Kinder Collection
Slides and photographs of Ron's travels to various preservation events and a few pictures from local Derbyshire fairs, articles, correspondence and Nottingham and Hull fair plans.
Ron Lee Collection
This collection contains black and white and colour photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides and transport taken by Ron Lee and scrapbooks.
Ron Newbold Collection
Colour and black and white photographs consisting of traction engines, fairgrounds, ride and organs taken by Ron Newbold.
Ron White Collection
Photographs of fairgrounds around Scotland and the north west of England, mainly around Ayrshire from the 1960s onwards and scrapbooks compiled by Ron White containing advertisments for Scottish and north of England fairgrounds and Chipperfield Circus.
Ronald Allen Taylor Collection
The collection contains photographs in twenty two albums taken by Taylor and other photographers, correspondence and a number of catalogues including his Dodgem research material.
Roundabout Art Article, Published 13 September 1981
An article by P.J. Kavanagh on fairground artist Fred Fowle published in the Telegraph Sunday magazine, London, pages 38-46. Contains illustrations.
Roundabouts Volume Four, 1993
VHS PAL amateur recording of fairs in England and Scotland including locations in Manchester, Hull, Torquay, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Leeds and featuring John Shaw's amusements.
Roundabouts Volume One, 1992
VHS PAL amateur recording of fairs in England and Scotland including locations in Leeds, Meadowhall, Hyde, Stockport, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Kirkcaldy, Huddersfield, Hamilton, Plymouth and Newcastle.
Roundabouts Volume Three, 1993
VHS PAL amateur recording of fairs in England and Scotland including locations in Glasgow, Sheffield Owlerton, Meadowhall, Stoke-on-Trent, Retford, Grantham, Daisy Nook, Hampstead Heath, kingsbury, Hazel Grove, Cranleigh, Harrogate and Glossop features Jack Schofield, Chairman of the Fairground Society of Great Britain in the mid-1990s.