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Topsy Turvy ride at Crystal Palace World's Fair

The High Flyer ride at fair. 'Mind You Hold Tight' and 'Ride of the Fair' signs depicted.

The Steam Swings, driven by a steam engine.

Old Time Golden Gallopers at Tavistock

Built at White City, Shepherd's Bush, London and opened by King George V (the Prince of Wales) on 14th May 1908 for the Franco British Exhibition and Olympic Games which Britain organised the same year.
Supplied by the 100 year-old Cleveland Bridge…

Earl Beatty crane attachment hoisting Dragon Cars into position at Corpus Christi fair.

Largest Ship to enter Pz. Dock. Eddie Richards thinks it may be the Gracefield photographed by his father. This print from old RichardsPlate

Whiteleggs Supreme Old Time Golden Gallopers in Tavistock.

Corpus Christi Fair in Penzance, 1950.

Professor Anderton (Albert Haslam), founder of Anderson & Rowland.

Big Wheel and spectators at fairground.

A scene from 'Carousel' staged in St Just by the St Just Operatic Society.

Whiteleggs Supreme Old Time Golden Gallopers in Tavistock.

A youthful fairground enthusiast steals away from the dancing to admire Captain, one of a set of 'gallopers' built in 1921 by Messrs Thomas Walker of Tewkesbury.

Three men sitting on the edge of a roundabout, with 'The Magnificent Marenghi' truck in the background.

These were some of the largest machines ever seen in Britain up to that date. This example, pictured at Southport, was the largest permanent Fair Ride in Britain up to 1900. Holidaymakers rode in suspended car which swung out as the speed of the ride…

Venetian Gondola at Bridgwater Fair in 1969

(D Giles and P Coles - names on back of photo?)