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Fairs

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 1020 Collections and/or Records:

Richard Sissons Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0017
Scope and Contents

Colour photographs of personalities and artefacts taken on the first day of the 1995 Sheffield "Mile Long" City Centre funfair by Richard Sissons.

Dates: 18 August 1995

Ride Plan, 22 June 1922

 Item
Reference code: 178M7.2
Scope and Contents

Decorative and functional fittings at King’s Lynn. Drawing 1895/20. Highly detailed drawings of decorative fittings such as figurines, functional brass bearings and rods, crankshafts and platform slides. Savages Ltd.

Dates: 22 June 1922

Rod Spooner Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0011
Scope and Contents

The collection includes photographs taken by Jack Mellor and includes images of fairground rides, sideshows and traction engines. There are copies of Rod Spooner's photographs of South and Midland Fairs from 1952-1953. Also included is a cassette recording of an interview With Kay Smart and other showmen/women.

Dates: c1900 - 1989

Roe Green Fair, Kingsbury Poster, 5 - 14 August c1975

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.934
Scope and Contents

Holland. Waltzer, Dodgems. Red and blue type on yellow background.

Dates: 5 - 14 August c1975

Roe Green Fair Poster, 4 - 20 August c1975

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.937
Scope and Contents

Kingsbury. Holland. Waltzer, Dodgems. Red and black type on white background.

Dates: 4 - 20 August c1975

Ron Kinder Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0052
Scope and Contents

Slides and photographs of Ron's travels to various preservation events and a few pictures from local Derbyshire fairs, articles, correspondence and Nottingham and Hull fair plans.

Dates: 1960 - 2002

Ron Lee Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0128
Scope and Contents

This collection contains black and white and colour photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides and transport taken by Ron Lee and scrapbooks.

Dates: c1960 - 2000

Ron Newbold Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0051
Scope and Contents

Colour and black and white photographs consisting of traction engines, fairgrounds, ride and organs taken by Ron Newbold.

Dates: c1960 - 1979

Ron White Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0047
Scope and Contents

Photographs of fairgrounds around Scotland and the north west of England, mainly around Ayrshire from the 1960s onwards and scrapbooks compiled by Ron White containing advertisments for Scottish and north of England fairgrounds and Chipperfield Circus.

Dates: 1950 - 1995

Ronald Allen Taylor Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0015
Scope and Contents

The collection contains photographs in twenty two albums taken by Taylor and other photographers, correspondence and a number of catalogues including his Dodgem research material.

Dates: c1900 - 1991

Roundabout Art Article, Published 13 September 1981

 Item
Reference code: 178B9.2
Scope and Contents

An article by P.J. Kavanagh on fairground artist Fred Fowle published in the Telegraph Sunday magazine, London, pages 38-46. Contains illustrations.

Dates: Published 13 September 1981

Roundabouts Volume Four, 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178D1.2
Scope and Contents

VHS PAL amateur recording of fairs in England and Scotland including locations in Manchester, Hull, Torquay, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Leeds and featuring John Shaw's amusements.

Dates: 1993

Roundabouts Volume One, 1992

 Item
Reference code: 178D1.3
Scope and Contents

VHS PAL amateur recording of fairs in England and Scotland including locations in Leeds, Meadowhall, Hyde, Stockport, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Kirkcaldy, Huddersfield, Hamilton, Plymouth and Newcastle.

Dates: 1992

Roundabouts Volume Three, 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178D1.1
Scope and Contents

VHS PAL amateur recording of fairs in England and Scotland including locations in Glasgow, Sheffield Owlerton, Meadowhall, Stoke-on-Trent, Retford, Grantham, Daisy Nook, Hampstead Heath, kingsbury, Hazel Grove, Cranleigh, Harrogate and Glossop features Jack Schofield, Chairman of the Fairground Society of Great Britain in the mid-1990s.

Dates: 1993

Roundabouts Volume Two, 1992

 Item
Reference code: 178D1.4
Scope and Contents

VHS PAL amateur recording of fairs in England including locations in Gloucester, Tenby, Meadowhall, Preston, Bicester, Doncaster, Hanley, Milton Keynes and Loughborough.

Dates: 1992

Roundhay Park Bonfire Fair Poster, 4 - 6 November c1975

 Item
Reference code: 178R11.938
Scope and Contents

Leeds. Don Lindbergh, high diver. Red and blue type on yellow background.

Dates: 4 - 6 November c1975

Rowland Scott Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0037
Scope and Contents

Photographs related to all aspects of British travelling fairgrounds including; rides, transport, living wagons, showpeople, fairground shows, circuses and organs by Rowland Scott and other authors, a selection of manuscripts by Rowland Scott and a small amount of correspondence.

Dates: c1899 - 1989

Ruth Manning-Sanders Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0177
Scope and Contents This collection comprises correspondence, photographs and newspaper cuttings, relating to Rosaire’s Circus, compiled by the writer and poet, Ruth Manning-Sanders. Accompanied by correspondence with, and photographs of, Freddie Pickford, an elephant trainer, during his time working for Fossett’s Circus, as well as various printed items and further photographs, thought to be accumulated in the course of her career as an author, who wrote extensively on the circus, including a book titled, ‘The...
Dates: c1920 - 1959

Ryhill and Nostell Joint Committee Steam Traction Engine and Fair Organ Rally Programme, 17 - 18 September 1966

 Item
Reference code: 178K3.23
Scope and Contents

Ryhill and Nostell Joint Committee Steam Traction Engine and Fair Organ Rally, Wintersett, Near Wakefield. 8pp.

Dates: 17 - 18 September 1966

Savages List of Exhibitis, 1975

 Item
Reference code: 178J5.3
Scope and Contents

List of exhibits by Frederick Savage at King’s Lynn Festival 1975 by David Braithwaite. Typescript.

Dates: 1975