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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…

Old Time Golden Gallopers at Tavistock

The Steam Swings, driven by a steam engine.

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

Topsy Turvy ride at Crystal Palace World's Fair

Crane Attachment Hoisting Scenic Gondolas onto Main Ride

Earl Beatty Crane Attachment Hoisting Dragon Cars into place

CLOSE-UP OF ENT 8.037.
Picture taken when ride auctioned by Messrs Husseys of Exeter

'CHARLIE NICHOLLS' Hand Carved Horses. Built in the days when showmen called their carved horses 'hobbies' this hand-operated children's roundabout is thought to date from around 1840.

Road Locomotive Earl Beatty showing crane attachment lifting Scenic Ride Cars into position at Penzance Corpus Christi Fair 1923

George DeVey with son George and grandson Simon, pictured at their winter quarters at Cullompton, Devon, in the early 1960s. Simon (centre) went on to play a leading role in the firm's (Anderton & Rowland) travelling fairs, driving the huge…

Mr Bernard Broad of Pentewan, St Austell, at the wheel of his 1918 Garrett Showman's locomotive. With this engine and its accompanying Marenghi organ he raised large sums for Cornish charities.

NOTE: This is probably the oldest print of the same photo in ENT 4.031 & ENT 8.017.
Burrell Showman Locomotive "Gladiator". Built 1909 for first 30 years of century hauled fairground equipmentfrom East Somerset to St Just. (note on photo says it was…

About a dozen showman's engines can be located in this picture carrying the names of Anderson and Rowland, Hancock and Jones. This was about the average attendance of the engine line-up of that period.
Note the engines all have steel straked rear…

Anderson and Rowland's Burrell Showman's locomotive Earl Beatty with its crane attachment hoisting scenic gondolas onto the main ride at Penzance Corpus Christi fair main ride in 1920s

Bill Lobb and Frank Stone fit the coloured bulbs on Bill's 1914 Aveling & Porter (No. 8432) now converted to a showman's tractor, at St Ive's Extravaganza in 1970.