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Fairs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1020 Collections and/or Records:

Illustration, c1900 - 1910

 Item
Reference code: 178Z28.41
Scope and Contents

Hyde Park Corner-A Showman. Colour copy of illustration.

Dates: c1900 - 1910

Indexes to Photographs, 1978 - 2000

 Item
Reference code: 178B21.13
Scope and Contents

Indexes to Paul Angel's photographs. Manuscript.

Dates: 1978 - 2000

Interview with Albert Proctor, 1993

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Reference code: 178E2.4
Scope and Contents

Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine. Digital file UTWAM060/6, location of copies X:\National_Fairground_Archive\General\nfa-digitisation\Sound Collections\Neil Calladine Collection. Digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sounds Heritage project by the British Library.

Dates: 1993

Interview with Fred Cox, 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178E2.5
Scope and Contents

Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.

Dates: 1993

Interview with Henry Mellors, 18 December 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178E2.1
Scope and Contents

Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on two cassette tapes. Copied from a series of interviews with showpeople from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.

Dates: 18 December 1993

Interview with Horace Parker, 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178E2.2
Scope and Contents

Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on two cassette tapes. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.

Dates: 1993

Interview with Kate Smart, 1981 - 1982, 25 February 1982, 21 January 1981

 Item
Reference code: 178E.1
Scope and Contents

Interview with Mrs Kate Smart, Mr Buller Hatwell and other showmen/women conducted by Rod Spooner at Barnt Green and Cassington on cassette tape format. First four people interviewed on 25 February 1982 at George Smart’s house, Barnt Green, Birmingham. Buller Hatwell interviewed at Cassington, nr. Oxford on 21 January 1981.

Dates: 1981 - 1982; 25 February 1982; 21 January 1981

Interview with Margaret Bird (nee) Shufflebottom, 15 June 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178E4.1
Scope and Contents

Interview with Margaret Bird, formerly Mrs Margaret Waddington (nee) Shufflebottom. Interview conducted by Brian Steptoe at Bramerton, Norfolk. Audio casette recording and ten pages typed transcript. Copy of original. Digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project led by the British Library 2021.

Dates: 15 June 1993

Interview with Mr Hall, 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178E2.6
Scope and Contents

Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.

Dates: 1993

Interview with Mrs Corrigan, 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178E2.7
Scope and Contents

Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.

Dates: 1993

Interview with Showman John Ling , 1991

 Item
Reference code: 178E1.1
Scope and Contents

John Ling’s memories of a travelling life, recorded by Stephen Smith on cassette tape format.

Dates: 1991

Interview with Sid Hibble and Henry Mellors, 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178E2.8
Scope and Contents

Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.

Dates: 1993

Interview with Tom Jervis, 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178E2.3
Scope and Contents

Interview recorded by Neil Calladine on cassette tape format. Copied from a series of interviews with show-people from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Section of the Showmen’s Guild of Great Britain with the permission of Neil Calladine.

Dates: 1993

Invoices and Receipts, 1931 - 1956

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178H26.1
Scope and Contents

Invoices and receipts related to the Dobson family business in the fairground, including correspondence with the Showmen's Guild, the purchase of a juvenile ride, application for ground at Birmingham Onion Fair and market and fair tolls.

Dates: 1931 - 1956

Isle of Anglesey Vintage Rally Programme, 21 - 22 May 1983

 Item
Reference code: 178K3.5 (i)
Scope and Contents

Isle of Anglesey Vintage Rally, Llanfairpwllgeyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. 72pp, illustrated. Includes postcard of St Ives.

Dates: 21 - 22 May 1983

Isle of Anglesey Vintage Rally Programme, 18 - 19 May 1985

 Item
Reference code: 178K3.5 (ii)
Scope and Contents

Isle of Anglesey Vintage Rally, Llanfairpwllgeyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. 80pp, illustrated.

Dates: 18 - 19 May 1985

J. Coneley and Sons Amusement Fair Poster, c1980 - 1989

 Item
Reference code: 178R41.12
Scope and Contents

Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Red and black type over yellow background with illustration of the dodgems in black in the centre. Printed by Wilsons printers Ltd. Leicester.

Dates: c1980 - 1989

Jack Leeson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0019
Scope and Contents

Photographs and negatives, both collected and taken by him as well as notebooks with detailed lists of every fair visited. Jack Leeson used an elaborate system of cross-referencing which match the photographs and Jack's account of the fair. Also included are letters, scrapbooks and a collection of records of fairground music and some fairground models.

Dates: 1949 - 1992

Jack Stephens Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0103
Scope and Contents

This collection contains colour photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, organs and transport taken by Jack Stephens.

Dates: 1970 - 2006

Jack Wilkinson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0168
Scope and Contents Black and white and colour photographs and negatives of fairgrounds, fairground organs, steam engines and other transportation systems with annotations by Jack Wilkinson and other sources, such as William Keating, James Davidson, Philip Bradley and Jack Mellor, as well as notebooks, scrapbooks, journals, books, correspondence, research material, audio tapes of fairground organ music and some 3D items including Jack's recording equipment and a model of a fairground organ. Jack Wilkinson’s...
Dates: c1900 - 1979