Contains thousands of posters, programmes, photographs, handbills, original documents, specialist journals, newspapers and a library containing publications on all the areas of collecting

This collection consists of 6 black and white photographs of fairgrounds and 8 audio cassette recordings of interviews with showpeople from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.

The collection contains photocopies of photographs of Aspland & Howden rides, photocopies of 5 newspaper cuttings of the Aspland & Howden families and a 45 minute videotape of Boston fair from 1994.

This collection contains amateur Super8 cine reels filmed by Thomas O’Beirne, black and white and colour photographs and slides, circus and theatre posters, a watercolour and a small amount of other ephemera.

Front elevation of outside shutters and rails for No.1 Swoop, showing colour designs of aeroplanes and bridges. Scale 1".

Colour sketch of section of No.1 Swoop's paybox for organ and plan drawing, scale 1".

Colour sketch of section of Corrigan's No.61 Ark's frontage.

A large collection of films entitled Circusama containing amateur and professional films on the themes of circus, performing animals and zoos, and edited clips from commercial Western and comedy films. FIlms are in a variety of formats including 8mm, Super8, 9.5mm and 16mm. Also includes a small collection of sound reels mainly containing fairground music, and correspondence and notes relating to the films.

Colour photographs of Nottingham Goose Fair and Hull Fair.

The collection contains photographs, including early family photographs of the O'Connor family, contemporary research, journal articles and books written by Vanessa Toulmin. Also included in the collection are manuscripts and newspaper cuttings.

Drawings and designs used for the decoration of fairground rides.

Drawings and sketches of fiargrounds, fairground rides and behind the scenes sketches showing showmen and women carrying out domestic jobs drawned by Margaret Whitaker at Tiverton Fair in Devon and Nottingham Goose Fair.

Various items painted and printed by Amy Goodwin

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.

Sketch of humorous scene showing an artist painting a tiger. Pencil on grid lined paper.

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.

This collection contains photographs both taken and collected by Paul Angel, associated notes, newspaper cuttings and 2 videos relating to fairs, seaside and amusement parks and the preservation movement.

This collection contains issues of ten different fairground related publications, transcriptions of taped interviews with different fairground showmen and families, related correspondence and research used for the purpose of Paul Braithwaite’s publication work. There are also small pockets of photographic images, advertising material and an obituary for Joe Fletcher.

Designs, drawings, research material, a piece of correspondence and some photographs, mainly related to the creative process and conception of the artwork for Chadwick’s Ghost Train as well as Paul Wright's lifetime archive related to his work as a fairground artist.

Design for the decoration of a ride or paybox front board, signed Orton Sons & Spooner, contains some measurements. Pencil on paper.