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Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
This short video, shot by local film make Brian Cheeseman with his 8mm camera, features various rides and attractions at Pleasure Beach in 1959.
John Collins was lessee of the Pleasure Beach site until December 1958. He had sublet the site to Botton Brothers ahead of the 1954 season and Botton Brothers were awarded lease of the site when it came up for renewal in 1959. John Collins sold the Scenic Railway to Botton Brothers at the same time, although this footage shows they had already made their mark on the ride.
The Scenic Railway was originally clad in plaster sculpted to resemble mountainous terrain and decorated with castles and other structures. Much of the decoration had be lost by this point, and the cladding itself had deteriorated to the point it had to be removed or cut back in several places. Compared this footage to that shot only four years earlier. The original station is still in place however, and the original wooden trains would continue to operate until the end of the 1963 season.
Botton Brothers bought the Gallopers to Pleasure Beach in 1954. They also provided rides at Bertram Mills' International Circus show at Olympia each Christmas until 1966, and the Gallopers were taken there each winter.
At least two, and possibly three, separate Flying Saucer rides operated at Pleasure Beach. These look like big wheels, but the wheel itself revolves on its base as well. This footage is of the first such ride to operate at the park.
Reubin Wilson, Albert Botton's brother-in-law, operated a Water Dodgems at the park, and it's likely this is the model seen in the footage, quickly followed by footage of Botton Brothers' Dodgems. The children's Tugs ride was situated near the entrance to the park.
Striking now is the lack of fencing all around the site.
Scenic Railway Roller Coaster
Designer: Hugo Haase A. G.
Operational: 1932 - present
National Fairground Archive: RC15
Gallopers
Manufacturer: Savages
Operational: 1954 - present
National Fairground Archive: G26
Flying Saucers
Manufacturer: Lang Wheels
National Fairground Archive: BW100a
Dodgems
Manufacturer: Supercar
Operational: 1954 - 1968
National Fairground Archive: DG453
Richard Mills ©
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 31st & June 1st 2014
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on 2nd day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 31st & June 1st 2014
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on 2nd day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 31st & June 1st 2014
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on 2nd day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
SB02 DWB (ex AV52 UKP)
Volvo FH12
Marshall Nichols, Dodgems
Oxford, 2 September 2012
The Nichols family's Dodgems have been regulars at Oxford for many years and a surprise this time was the appearance of a new lorry hauling the load.
Woolpit Steam
1st & 2nd June 2013
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on first day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
1st & 2nd June 2013
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on first day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
M363 YCL
Foden 4340
John Barker, Dodgems
Sixfields Leisure, Northampton, 29 October 2011
Barkers Amusements, based at Sileby, Leicestershire, occasionally appear with some of their equipment at Scarrotts' fairs in Northampton. This Foden is normally used with the firm's dodgems, a converted Brooklands Speedway track, but the only dodgems at this event were those of John Scarrott so I assume it was in use pulling Jonathan Barker's Rock-o-Plane.
VX51 YDA
Iveco EuroTech
Thomas Emmett, Dodgems
Campbell Park, Milton Keynes, 5 June 2017
An interesting load that was originally a drawbar but has been converted to artic with the front dolly removed. The hydraulic legs are at the front so the tractor unit has to couple up at 90 degrees to the trailer.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Rather more stylish than most power units and looking a bit like a living wagon, this is the electricity source for Keith Emmett's Dodgems. It was built in Belgium by Vanderstraeten but now contains some very British generator sets, two Gardners and a Lister.
John A Codona's Foden Haulmaster used with his Grand Prix dodgems at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow in the early 90s.
Woolpit Steam
May 31st & June 1st 2014
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on 2nd day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Another shot of the Foden Alpha 3000 M11 440 XL, reg. no. W554 COM, operated by Stuart Danter & Sons hauling the 'Drivetime' dodgems ride for Danter's Fun Fair. The fair was situated on the riverside in Newport, South Wales for the annual 'The Big Splash' event. The picture was taken on 15 July 2012.
Woolpit Steam
May 31st & June 1st 2014
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on 2nd day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
The lessee of the Buckingham Charter Fair is Essex-based showman Marshall Nichols, who travels a build-up Dodgem track. An investment for the 2007 season saw the delivery of a new set of cars and a repaint of the paybox. Previously in a plain yellow and red scheme it now features this airbrush art by Ant Williams.