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The photograph library of the Friendship Circle of Showland Fans (FCFS). This collection includes material relating to famous fairs, engines and rides. As well as containing a full bound set of 'Merry-Go-Round' journals and numerous books, letters and other journals. The collection includes various catalogues and notebooks documenting the use of traction engines on the fairground.

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Photographs and scrapbooks compiled by Bernard Fielding. Each scrapbook contains a mixture of press cuttings including Fairground Mercury and World’s Fair, photographs, postcards, Paul Braithwaite history and patent material. Augmented by handwritten notes and research from other enthusiasts.

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This collection contains photographs of fairgrounds and steam engines, journal articles, newspaper cuttings, correspondence and books on railways, engineering, fairgrounds and other related topics.

Scope and Contents A collection of 102 technical drawings made by Norman Arthur Birks (1892-1989) while he was an engineering student at Bradford Technical College and at the University of Sheffield between 1908 and 1914. Also includes 32 scholarship certificates, examination certificates and reports relating to Norman Birks’ technical education between 1908 and 1914 both at the University of Sheffield and Bradford Technical College, and 3 photographs featuring N.A. Birks dating from c.1912 to 1914....

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Colour portrait photographs of people on thrill fairground rides by Brendan Walker.

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Textbooks, offprints, newspaper cuttings, degree certificates, etc. of George William Burley, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Sheffield.

For further details of this collection please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

Scope and Contents A collection of papers relating to work on materials science carried out by John Douglas Eshelby. The collection consists of correspondence, notebooks, research papers and miscellaneous documents relating to the working life of John Douglas Eshelby, notably relating to the subject area of materials science, but also including mathematics, theoretical physics, languages and archaeology.For further details of this collection please see the listing in the External Document section...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...

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Monographs on fairground related topics by various authors.

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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.

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Colour portrait photographs of people on fairground rides by Brendan Walker for his research project on the experience of thrill.

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Official plan of Foster Showman’s Road Loco of 7 N.H.P.

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Plans and drawings for fairground ride models and original rides.

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Colour portrait photographs of people on fairground rides by Brendan Walker, these photographs were part of the Punters: Auto-Portraits of Fairground Thrill exhibition at M+R Gallery in London in 2006.

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Loose pages from scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings from various sources including the Fairground Mercury and the World's Fair newspaper, photographs, postcards, research material, Paul Braithwaite's history and patent material and other notes by various fairground enthusiasts and compiled by Bernard Fielding.

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Black loose leaf folder marked as B1, Burrell’s to 2733. Includes material on Burrell Engines, notes to 1990’s. Comiled by Bernard Fielding.

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Black loose leaf folder marked as B2, Burrell’s to 3185. Includes material on Burrell Engines, notes to 1990’s. Compiled by Bernard Fielding.

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Black loose leaf folder marked as B3, Burrell’s to 3483. Includes material on Burrell Engines, notes to 1990’s Compiled by Bernard Fielding.

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Black loose leaf folder marked as B4, Burrell’s to 3830. Includes material on Burrell Engines, notes to 1990’s. Compiled by Bernard Fielding.

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Red loose leaf folder marked as B6, Burrell’s to 4092. Includes material on Burrell Engines, notes to 1990’s. Compiled by Bernard Fielding.