National Fairground Archive

[Mark]

I don't think this has ever been posted here.

I only just found it, but I thought it may be of interest to anyone who likes the old fairgrounds. This site is basically the base for the title group...

They are based in Sheffield University and you can even go and visit to look through the archives etc, but that is for research purposes and so on.

Anyways, this site documents a great deal of the history of great British (and some others) made flat rides throughout the last century, right up to the modern machines we still see at funfairs now.

A brilliant resource if you like looking at this kind of thing.

http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/index.html

 

[dj-fireball999]

Cheers for the post, very interesting to learn the history, and I learnt a lot!

 

[furie]

PMSL! I've been visiting this site on and off now for about three years. Never once did I actually think to link it on CF :lol: I'm such a muppet!

There's some brilliant stuff on there, and a lot of not so brilliant stuff. The actual physical archive is the best, as they have a lot of original blue-prints to a lot of classic rides. It's what they're using to help rebuild the Scenic, blue prints of similar rides out of the physical archives.

 

[Mark]

Indeed, I really enjoyed just looking through all the photos. I swear I have been on some of those specific models and stuff.

It still pains me to see a Dive Bomber, one of which was at my local fair when I was a child, knowing I haven't yet managed to get on one. I know that every person I speak to who has been on one says they are vile vomit inducing pieces of awful technology but still, I really want to ride one at least once. At least I can say I HAVE ridden a Zipper though, which was awesome.

Thanks for posting anyways guys, I was beginning to think that I was the only person seeing the topic or something

(Although I did realise Furie was away on holiday and therefore couldn't post till he got home.)