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Games

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: NFCA use for amusement games

Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:

Photographs, c1950 - 1959

 Series
Reference code: 178C11
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs relate to the Silcock Brothers' dodgems and arcades and one to Whites' stall.

Dates: c1950 - 1959

Photographs and Negatives, 1977 - 1978

 Series
Reference code: 178C125
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs of fairground people by Bob Chase, produced for his final university year project, also includes contact prints, negatives and notes

Dates: 1977 - 1978

Plans, c1916 - 1939

 Series
Reference code: 178M15
Scope and Contents

Blueprints of electric parts for fairground rides supplied by Mather & Platt Ltd and Hackett & Co., Electrical Engineers to Orton and Spooner.

Dates: c1916 - 1939

Posters, c1937 - 1989

 Series
Reference code: 178R11
Scope and Contents

A collection of posters printed by Taylor's of Wombwell for music hall and variety, circus, pantomime and fairgrounds.

Dates: c1937 - 1989

Royal Commission on Lotteries and Betting, 1932 - 1933

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 11: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.53
Scope and Contents

Bound minutes of evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Lotteries and Betting. Contains a lose index of minutes of evidence.

Dates: 1932 - 1933

Royal Commissioner's Reports, 1889 - 1933

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178H40.51-53
Scope and Contents

Royal Commissions on market rights and tolls and lotteries and betting.

Dates: 1889 - 1933

Showmen's Guild Scrapbook, 1934

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 20: Series 178G65
Reference code: 178G65.6
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook containing Guild news, articles on legislation, the deaths of Ben Hobson and William Savage, vehicles, transport, gramophones and playing music, betting, various licences, coconut shies, legislation, Stevenage Fair, news from the Scottish section and the history of the Guild from various newspapers.

Dates: 1934

Showmen's Guild Scrapbook, 1926 - 1929

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 20: Series 178G65
Reference code: 178G65.7
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook containing news on taxation, roads, gaming and gambling, women working at the fair, Mitcham Fair, Nottingham Goose Fair, legislation, transport, circus, charitable donations, accidents and safety at the fair, coconut shies and Whimsical Walker's retirement from various newspapers.

Dates: 1926 - 1929

Sketch of Square Hoopla Stall, c1920 - 1939

 Item
Reference code: 178V10.6
Scope and Contents

Design for a game stall with Art Deco style decorations containing two stamps from Geo Orton Sons & Spooner, Burton on Trent. Pencil on paper.

Dates: c1920 - 1939

Slides of Kirkaldy Fair, 18 May 1981

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178C134.29
Scope and Contents

Colour slides taken at Kirkaldy Fair by George McIndoe as inserts to a documentary on Scottish fairgrounds. Most of the images cover the arrival and build up of the rides, trucks and wagons and some show fairground families, including Testo, Biddall and Wilmot's. There are also photographs of the opening ceremony with the Lord Mayor and other dignitaries and members of the Showman's Guild as well as Carl Pinder's with his clown face painting both and a series of the fair at night.

Dates: 18 May 1981

Stanley Fun Fair Poster, 18 - 21 August c1975

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.900
Scope and Contents

Shaw. 3 big rides, coconut shy, bingo stall. Red and blue type on yellow background.

Dates: 18 - 21 August c1975

The Kursaal Plan Layout, c1890 - 1900

 Item
Reference code: 178M15.27(i)
Scope and Contents

Suggested layout for stalls at the Kursaal, including a set of dodgems, scale 1/4".

Dates: c1890 - 1900

The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0054
Scope and Contents

The main extent of the collection contains yearbooks, meetings and minutes, correspondence and a record of day to day activities within The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.

Dates: 1904 - 2023

Transcriptions of Interviews with Jim Bryant and Research on Bryant’s Slot Machines, September - November 1996

 File
Reference code: 178B23.2
Scope and Contents

Transcriptions of taped interviews with Jim Bryant and manuscript notes and research on Bryant’s slot machines, New Brighton Tower Company, Tom Boland, Street Automatic Machine Co. and others, for ‘Arcades & Slot Machines’ book.

Dates: September - November 1996

Transcriptions of Interviews with Joe Fletcher, 1996 - 1997

 File
Reference code: 178B23.1
Scope and Contents

Transcriptions of taped interviews with Joe Fletcher for Cater Books’ ‘Arcades & Slot Machines’ book.

Dates: 1996 - 1997

World's Fair Newspaper Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0085
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the complete run of The World's Fair Newspaper from 1904 to the present day. Issues from 1904 to 1950 are on microfilm.

Dates: 1904 - 2020