Fair Ground Collection

Rollercoaster
Riders on the Scenic Railway rollercoaster at Dreamland in Margate, Kent

Carousel Music Cover
All the fun of a merry-go- round, enjoyed for a penny a ride by all, including off- duty soldiers and their sweethearts

Fair / Roller Coaster 1817
An early form of roller coaster ( the Aerial Walk ) in the Beaujon Gardens, Paris

Aspland Carousel
Asplands Switchback Motor Cars, built up at Savages Yard, Kings Lynn

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

Fairground Fun
A flying rocket ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach Funfair, Lancashire, England. Date: late 1960s

Carousel Crewkerne
Steam dobbie set at Crewkerne Fair, Somerset

Rollercoaster / Skegness
Figure 8 rollercoaster at Skegness, Lincolnshire

Rollercoaster / Yarmouth
Giant Scenic Railway at Great Yarmouth

Big Wheel / Vienna 1930S
The big wheel in the " Prater" in Vienna

Fairs / Electric Cars / 1956
Monte Carlo Rally electric car ride at Dreamland, Margate

Blackpool Log Flume
These holidaymakers are getting wetter than they bargained for on the Log Flume at the famous Pleasure Beach funfair, Blackpool, Lancashire, England! Date: late 1960s

Earls Court Wheel
The Giant Ferris Wheel at Earls Court, London, showing the emergency evacuation procedure - a picture which was no doubt intended to reassure nervous passengers Date: 1894

Fair / Car Ride, Kings Lyn
A petrol car ride (owned by F Thompson), Kings Lynn (cars manufactured by R E Chambers Co. USA)

Switchback, Butlin s
Figure 8 switchback at Butlins Holiday Camp, Mablethorpe. Built in France, the ride was originally sited at Butlins Skegness camp

Strong Man at a Fair
A man plays a fanfare on a cornet to herald the great feat of strength being performed by a strong man at a fair, while a few people stand looking on

Postcard of Carousel
A merry-go-round at Worthing

boy circus tent
A small boy peeps under a circus big top to watch the show inside. Birmingham, England Date: 1986

John Studts Grand Gondola Switchback ride
John Studt of Cardiff - his Grand Gondola Motor Switchback ride Date: circa 1906

All the Fun of the Fair by H. L. Oakley
Charming silhouette cut by H. L. Oakley depicting a travelling fair pay its annual visit to a fair. Merry-go-rounds and coconut shys are shown alongside a fortune teller and performing bear

Fliptail the Otter at the fair

Native festival at Suez, Egypt
A native festival at Suez, Egypt, with children riding in wooden boxes. Date: 20th century

Valentines card with cute children
A little girl holding up a red heart gazes admiringly at a boy on a merry-go-round zebra ride, while he looks winningly back at her. The slogan is take a ride and win a heart. Date: C.1930

Silhouettes of various Derby Day scenes, including a gipsy caravan, a fairground caller with a coconut shy, a photographer, a bookmaker at a racecourse, people enjoying a picnic

Blackpool Funfair
A fairground ride on Blackpool Pleasure Beach funfair, Lancashire, England. Date: late 1960s

Hampstead Fair 1930S
All thoughts are now on Bank Holiday and preparations are being made everywhere. Here we see men getting the fairground ready on Hampstead Heath, London. Date: early 1930s

Fairground Roundabout
Lots of cloth caps and cloche hats in evidence at this busy fairground roundabout. Date: early 1930s

Carousel Horses
Retouching the paintwork on traditional wooden carousel horses before the start of the travelling fair season, Britain. Date: 1930s

Putting up a Marquee
Workmen erecting a fairground marquee. Date: early 1930s

Rifle Range
A young man tries to impress his girl, by aiming for the Bulls Eye on a fairground Rifle Range at Dingle racecourse, County Kerry, Ireland. Date: 1962

Guinea Day at the Festival Gardens, Festival of Britain
A cartoon depicting Guinea Day at the Festival Gardens, Festival of Britain, with upper class people in their best clothes, taking part in some unlikely (for them) fairground activities

Crowded beach at New Brighton, Merseyside
A crowded beach at New Brighton, Wallasey, Merseyside, with the Tower Ballroom and a childrens fairground ride in the background. circa 1940s

Test your Strength
A man tests his punch at a fairground sideshow, while some impressed onlookers gather round to watch. Date: 1950s

Fairground 1930S
A busy scene at a fairground, showing families milling around the rides, most of them wearing various types of hats - cloche, pith helmets, straw boaters, trilbys, etc. Date: early 1930s

The front of the Prater Fair Ground, Vienna
Undated photograph of the front of the Prater Fair Ground, Vienna. HPG/1/14/5 (vi)

Soldiers on parade
British Troops Drilling outside The Devils Cave attraction at the White City exhibition grounds, Shepherds Bush, London

Mitcham Fair 1930S
Workmen getting the roundabouts ready at Mitcham Fair, Surrey, England

A flying roundabout; Sir Hiram Maxims latest invention
Illustration of Sir Hiram Maxims latest invention, which may be described as a roundabout in which the revolving bodies are suspended in the air in cars that are attached by steel wire ropes

Aerial Swing / Luna Park
A view of the aerial swing, Luna Park, Coney Island, New York, USA, at night when the park is deserted

Grand Centrifugal Ride
The Grand Centrifugal railway was an early type of rollercoater, in which participants sat in sledges / carriages which went down a ramp and around two circles

Topsy-Turvy Railway
The Topsy-Turvy Railway at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham (south-east London)

UPS-AND-DOWNS / FAIR / 1804
Early Amusement wheels (hand- turned) at a St Petersburg Fair, Russia

Merry-Go-Round / Russia
Early hand-turned Merry-Go- Round at a St Petersburg Fair, Russia

Fair / Car Ride, Kettering
An electric car ride in Kettering, United Kingdom

Fair / Amusement Wheel
CAIRO, EGYPT - An Arab-style amusement wheel

St Albans Town Fair - People enjoy the Cycle Roundabout

Fair / Railway / Rhyl
Fairgoers enjoy a ride on the miniature railway at Rhyl

Fair / Switchback, 1910
Waddingtons Scenic Railway - switchback ride at Hull Fair

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