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Neil Calladine Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0012

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates

  • Creation: c1920 - 1979
  • Creation: 1993

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Items are available to view by appointment in the NFCA reading room. Audio equipment must be booked prior to visit

Conditions Governing Use

Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of National Fairground and Circus Archive, subject to copyright law and condition of the material

Biographical / Historical

Neil William Calladine is a fairground and circus enthusiast from Belper, Derbyshire, born in July 1951.

Neil is an accountant by trade with an intense interest in fairgrounds, circus and wall of death shows.

His passion for these types of travelling entertainment encouraged him to develop a career as an amateur historian and he regularly contributes articles to the World's Fair newspaper, the King Pole, the Fairground Mercury and the Platform among other specilist publications.

Neil worked as a spieler with Ken Fox the Wall of Death show. Neil first met Ken Fox at Rempstone Steam Rally while exhibiting his model wall of death and photographs. After this first introduction Neil was invited to visit Ken at his wall of death. By chance ken's spieler had left the day before and Neil was asked to replace him.

From that point on Neil worked with the Ken Fox Wall of Death show, travelling around the fairgrounds with the Fox family.

Neil was the Director and Secretary of the Original Wall of Death Ltd from 2009 until his retirement in 2017. He is the editor of Proctor's Funfair, throughout the years! by showman Albert Proctor and the Treasurer of the Fairground Association of Great Britain.

Extent

1 Box(es) ( 6 photographs and 8 cassette recordings)

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Catalogued according to type

Existence and Location of Copies

Audio cassette tapes 178E2 digitised as part of the British Library's Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project.

Status
Completed
Author
Created by Ian Trowell Updated by Arantza Barrutia on Finding Aid Date field date
Date
7 March 2014
Description rules
International Standard for Archival Description - General
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository

Contact:
The University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield South Yorkshire S10 2TN United Kingdom
0114 222 7231