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