Category:Steam Fairground

One of the more exciting moments of 2015 was the donation of an almost complete steam-powered fairground set, which we think was built and assembled over a number of years from before World War One (and possibly before 1900) to the 1950s.

The set was in a loft before it came to us, and the donor remembers it being worked on in the 1950s.

Construction

A striking feature of the set is that most of its larger pieces are built exactly like real fairground rides, designed to be broken down into a large number of quite small numbered parts, so that (in a real fairground), the pieces could be easily handled and packed away quickly for stowage in the fair's transport vehicles, to be taken to a new site and reassembled.