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M5474.tif
This is a painting unsigned but has been confirmed by experts to be a painting by Lamorna Birch.
The Painting is located and belongs to the Morrab Library.

ENT 8.010.tif
'Limonaire Frs' French fairground organ.

STRT 8.007.tif
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.

ENT 6.006.tif
Steam-driven roundabout.

ENT 6.007.tif
Steam-driven roundabout Riding School Birchalls.

ENT 8.011.tif
Few people now can recall the annual visit of Henry Jones & Sons Fair to Halsetown where they built up in a crowded meadow among the cabbages and rows of peas, some 700 feet above St Ives and in the shadow of Rosewall (locally called Buttermilk)…

MUS 4.001.tif
Mortier 97-key Dance Band steam organ

ENT 4.017.tif
A traction engine signed with Silcock Bros Up-to-Date Amusements, Warrington. Dodgems in the background.

MUS 4.002.tif
Steam-driven fair organ.

ENT 6.008.tif
Dorman's Gallopers roundabout at a fairground. Same roundabout as shown in ENT4.021

ENT 8.012.tif
General view of a fair with Flying Chairs.

ENT 6.016.tif
Anderton & Rowlands Burrell Gladiator, built in 1909. 'Veterans of the Fairground Tour'.

ENT 8.014.tif
Duplicate of ENT8.015

CH Marenghi 1911 military band organ. "Playing the melodies of the masters".

ENT 8.015.tif
DUPLICATE OF ENT8.014

CH Marenghi 1911 military band organ. "Playing the melodies of the masters".

ENT 8.018.tif
John Hart pictured standing in front of Dave Rowland's Hoopla at Penzance Fair in 1978.

ENT 8.020.tif
Albert Martin's Hoopla at Penzance Fair in 1978, with David Rowland and Arthur James's Big Wheel. Hoopla signs read 'Score under 30 with 3 Separate Numbers to Win', 'One Win Any Prize', '20p' and 'Gold Plated Ingots Here'.

ENT 8.021.tif
Anderton & Rowland's Cyclone Twist at Summercourt Fair. (M. DeVey)

ENT 8.022.tif
Children's Supercar Railroad roundabout

ENT 8.023.tif
A. Whitelegg / Charlie Bailey's juveniles (Dean Bailey, Richard Thomas)

ENT 8.024.tif
Tommy Opie's Austin Cars at Penzance Fair in 1978 . (Nigel Philby)
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