THE TRADITIONAL FAIRGROUND
Bartlett’s mechanical steam roundabout at Bradford on Avon (c 1900)
Day’s Menagerie, St Giles’ Fair in Oxford in 1895.
Chipperfield’s elephants parading along Terminus Terrace in Southampton in 1953
McKeowen’s boxing booth, Northampton Meadow in 1961
Joe BeckettBritish
Heavyweight Champion:
1919 to 1923
Arnold’s Bioscope Show in Somerset, around 1912.
Chipperfield’s Electric Theatre being towed by the Burrell engine ‘Queen of the Midlands’ in the early 20th century