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Shaw's recently painted drag unit ex Plasmoor and their 4000 series unit with dodgem load pulled onto to Hull Fair
A visit to Dingles Fairground Heritage Centre in Devon, UK. Full of fabulous oldtime fairground rides the best had to be the dodgems. Taken with a bog standard 18-55 kit lens. I keep forgetting how good that lens can be.
Texting on the Dodgems. People watching ...
St Giles' Fair - Oxford
"Since the nineteenth century, St Giles’ Fair has been held on the Monday and Tuesday following the first Sunday after St Giles’ Day (which is always on 1 September). This means that when 1 September is a Saturday, the fair is held at the earliest possible time (3 & 4 September); but when 1 September is a Sunday, the fair is held at the latest possible time (9 & 10 September).
The Fair evolved from the St Giles’ parish wake of the early seventeenth century, which later became known as St Giles’ Feast.
In the 1780s it was a “toy” fair (selling miscellaneous cheap and useful wares), and by 1800 it had become a general fair to entertain children.
From the 1830s there were amusements for adults as well. By the end of the nineteenth century there were several proposals to close it, as it had become too rowdy and licentious.
In 1930 the city corporation (now the city council) took over the control of the fair."
I love all the differences between American and British English. I knew this one already but I can't remember how.
Nikon FM2n
Nikkor-O.C 35mm f/2
Kentmere 400
The travelling fair has arrived in Hitchin, so H and I reverted to teenagers and spent Saturday evening mooching around there not winning anything and eating hotdogs and candyfloss.
The Nottingham Goose Fair is an annual travelling funfair held at the Forest Recreation Ground here in Nottingham. This year, 2022, its runs for 10 days! Usually its 3 days, occasionally 5 days.
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Taken at Banksy's Dismaland theme park / art show at Weston-Super-Mare using a 35mm Nikkor Prime Lens.
The Grim Reaper slowly emerges in low lighting to a watching crowd when suddenly The Beegees - 'Staying Alive' starts blaring, disco lights start flashing and the grim reaper starts spinning around wildly to the music and smashing violently into the barriers near the crowd.
This image was very under exposed despite the high ISO settings. Luckily I was using RAW format so was able to bump up the levels in Adobe Lightroom.
Quite please with the result, the lens flare caused by the flashing lights almost adds to the image.
Showmans Volvo FH16-650 SD16CST 6x4 rigid/drawbar operated by Stuart Danter with a heavyweight 5-axled fold-up Dodgem ride trailer.
I'm fairly sure this truck was new to D&J Campbell of Connel, Argyll & Bute on timber haulage as FH16DJC- the registration is now on their newer FH16.