Amusement Collection

Car Ride at Dreamland
The Brooklands Racers car ride at Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate, Kent

Fairs / Electric Boats
Electric motor boats at Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate, Kent

Wonderland, Revere Beach, Massachusetts, USA
Aerial view of Wonderland, Revere Beach, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1909

The Fox Theatre, Detroit, Michigan - The Auditorium. Opened in 1928 as a flagship movie palace in the Fox Theatres Chain. The first theatre to be designed to incorporate a speaker system for sound

Pier Train / Southend
The electric train carries passengers to the end of the one and a half mile long pier, the longest in the world

Jazz orchestra by the pool on board the Mauretania
A jazz orchestra entertains passengers by the pool on board the ocean liner, the Mauretania, just one of the many amusements available. Date: 1931

Dreamland, Margate, 1938
Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate - a crowd waiting at the Scenic Railway station

Cockfighting in France
Cock fighting is a fashionable amusement in fin-de-siecle Paris, enjoyed by top-hatted gentlemen and their lady friends

Londons new amusement: Up and down the escalator
Illustration from 1911 of the first escalators ever installed on the underground, between the District and the Piccadilly line platforms at Earls Court station

The Wiener Riesenrad (German for Viennese Giant Wheel ), or Riesenrad is a Ferris wheel at the entrance of the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt, the 2nd district of Austrias capital Vienna

Coney Island
The pier seen from Steeplechase Park roller coaster, Coney Island, New York, America

Long Beach, California, USA - The Pike Amusement Park
Long Beach, California, USA (with Warships on the horizon). The Pike in was a seaside amusement park on a pier and famous for its signature attraction the Cyclone Racer (pictured). Date: circa 1930s

ANGRY GOLFER 1897
Having made an awful mess of his shot, a golfer vents his anger, much to the amusement of his caddy. Date: 1897

La Grenouillere, 1869, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). French painter. La Grenouillere, 1869. National Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Paragon Park, Nantasket Beach, Massachusetts, USA
Night view of Paragon Park and the Schlitz Palm Garden, Nantasket Beach, Hull, Massachusetts, USA. Date: circa 1908

Jacks Saloon, Happy Hollow, Hot Springs, Arkansas
Jacks Sallon Bar at Happy Hollow. An " amusement park" of sorts, Happy Hollow was established in the late 1880s or early 1890s by Norman McLeod off Central Avenue on what is now Fountain

Robin in the trenches, WW1 by Philip Dadd
Sat on the End of my Bayonet like a bloomin Christmas Card, he did. Illustration depicting an incident described by a private soldier, writing home during the winter campaign of 1914-15

Drunken man staggering home - about to hit lampost
Racing Illustrated - " Some delay at the post!" - a gentleman who has had a serious session at the Old Blue Bell (see 10909661) endeavours to make his way home

Victorian Silhouettes by H. L. Oakley
A page of silhouettes showing various Victorian pastimes and games including archery, croquet, skating and chess

Fairs / Electric Car Ride
Monte Carlo Rally electric car ride at Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate

Indian Puppet Show for European Children
Kaut-pootlies, or Puppets exhibited by Native Jugglers, for the amusement of European children. (Plate 18 of 20). Date: 1813

Switchback at Blackpool
People riding the switchback, which opened in 1891, at Blackpool Amusement Park, Lancashire, England. Date: 1950s

The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth, the worlds largest, grandest, best amusement institution. Date c1899. The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth, the worlds largest, grandest

Building a wooden Rollercoaster - Ramsgate Seafront
Huge scaffolding erected for the construction of a wooden rollercoaster on the seafront - part of the Merrie England funfair at Ramsgate, Kent, England

Dreamland Cafe 1952
A summers evening in the outdoor cafe at Dreamland Amusement Park, Margate

Butlins - Clacton-on-Sea
Butlins Clacton-on-Sea - The Amusement Park

Map of Africa, 1820. Showing Morocco, Barbary and the Sahara in the north, Soudan and Guinea in the west, Khoikhoi (Hottentots) and Bantu (Caffres) in the south, and Abyssinia and Sennaar in the east

Black Gang Chine, Alum Bay, Isle of Wight - Stuffed bear
Black Gang Chine amusement complex, Alum Bay, Isle of Wight - Stuffed bear and very brave young girl happy to accept its embrace. Date: circa 1930s

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - The Mall Coney Island Amusement Park
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA - The Mall, Coney Island Amusement Park Date: 1929

Singapore - The Great World Amusement Park - note the seperate entrances for Gents and Ladies and the film poster for The Man in the Iron Mask (1939). Date: 1939

Blackpool Great Wheel early 1900s

An amusement park ride early 1900s

Masquerade Ball at the Coliseo del Principe, circa 1771-1802
History of Spain. Masquerade Ball at the Coliseo del Principe, circa 1771-1802. By Juan Antonio Salvador Carmona (1740-1805). Etching and engraving on paper. History Museum. Madrid. Spain

Flip-Flap ride at the Franco-British Exhibition 1908
The Flip-Flap ride with compartments that swung horizontally holding fifty people, held at Franco-British Exhibition at Shepherd's Bush, London. Date: 1908

Charles Sherwood Stratton known by everyone as General Tom Thumb (1838 - 1883), American dwarf, who achieved great fame. Wearing court dress, appearing at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly

A series of photographs showing the demolition of the Great Wheel at Earls Court, also known as the Gigantic Wheel. After twelve years the Earls Court wheel was been broken up

Tiddy Dol
The origins of Tiddy Dol derive from a unique Georgian street seller. Nowadays we will buy popcorn while watching a movie

Views of Norway, early 19th century
Fox catching crabs on the beach of Norway 7, shepherd recovering a lost sheep from a mountain 8, and ship pulled into the maelstrom of Norway or Moskstraumen 9

Historical views of Russia. The Imperial Winter Palace at St. Petersburg 16, Russian peasants with sledges on ice 17, market of frozen animals on the frozen Neva River in St. Petersburg 18

Historical views of Sweden. Gustav Eriksson addressing the men of Dalarna 13, women farmers ploughing fields with oxen 14, and a public whipping of a cruel boy 15

Historical views of England. View of Lands End, Cornwall 82, coach approaching London with St. Pauls cathedral 83, and sailor returning to his family home 84

Historical views of Portugal. Catholic kneeling before a statue of a saint 79, peasant threshing corn with oxen 80 and view of the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 81

Historical views of Spain. Bullfighter about to kill a bull with dagger and lance in a bullring with female picador 76, burning heretics at the stake in an Auto da Fe 77

Historical views of Holland. Dutch man and woman in front of a town 67, woman skating on ice to market with a basket on her head 68, and horse-drawn barges or Treckschutz on the canal 69

Historical views of Paris, France. View of the cathedral of Notre Dame 70, piles of bones and skulls in the Catacombs 71, and the Massacre of St. Bartholomews Day in 1572 72

Historical views of Denmark. View of the city of Copenhagen 64, Danish watchman with lantern patroling the streets of Copenhagen 65

Historical views of Germany. Germans hunting wild boar on horseback with hounds 58, rafts of timber floating on the Rhine river 59, and the Rhine Falls near Schaffhausen 60

Historical views of Poland. Polish men in the city of Cracow 55, Peter the Wild Boy found in a forest near Hamelin 56, and the inflammable springs near Cracow 57

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