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Panthers & other well remembered "Slopers" & "in" bikes of the 1920s& 30s

General view of Fair with three Anderton & Rowlands, Burrells, a small Jones Steam Tractor (mid picture) & Hancocks Rides (identifiable near the top). This is a typical "Tober" scene of 70 years ago. Engines are on "straked" wheels & Residential…

Alf Whiteleggs "Golden Gallopers" with 89 Key "Merenghi" Organ

It was customary for 'hobbies' as the old 19th century showmen called their wooden horses, to be individually names. This practice survived into the 1930s. The faded name 'Joe' can just be seen on the neck of this 150-year-old fairground antique.

c1900 photograph of the fair which was built up in Newlyn Coombe at Paul Feast.

Gavioli Fairground Organ on the right. Showmans Engine "The Cornishman" rear left. Price of admission 3d. Keling Gray's "Doncaster Butterscotch" advertised as 3 bars a penny.

Foreground: Peper's swings.

Middleground: T Whiteleggs Easyrider, Tom Rowlands Dodgems.

Background (Left to Right): A James Big Wheel, D Rowlands Waltzers, J Rowlands Big Wheel & Waltzer.

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…

'Limonaire Frs' French fairground organ.

Fairground ride: The steam-driven Chairoplane

Sailing boats with nets drying. Abbey slip and church behind.

Modern copy of an old photo. Record of opening Alexandra Road by Princess Alexandra 1865. Richards photograph. Monument now at entrance to Rugby Ground

Shops: Flening Cabinet Maker; Oppeneims Furnishing Davy Wine & Spirits, T Levin's

Gibson Copyright. Midsummer Fair at the Quay Penzance, discontinued about 1881. The Harbour Office is situated near Trinity House Store.

This is probably the source of the poor quality print CUST 10OF 025.

Steam-driven roundabout.