Category: Funfairs

Numbers were not as high as anticipated this year possibly due to the weather being simply too hot for some. Regarded (and advertised) as Lancashire’s largest summer funfair, Burnley Wakes fair did not disappoint when it opened from Wednesday 8 to Monday 13 July. There …

ADIPS General Manager Carl Hagemann highlights the HSE’s recently released draft HSE 175 guidance and other news. Dear Controllers I hope your summer season is going well; I would find it interesting to hear if the drought conditions have affected business for the better ? …

Kirkham and Wesham Club Day has been taking place for many decades and is supported by Stanley John Cubbins’ funfair. The funfair in support of the annual Kirkham and Wesham Club Day once again took place at Memorial Park in Kirkham. The event is a …

Two important landmarks were celebrated at this year’s Welland Steam & Country Show, the Ross-on-Wye Steam Engine Society’s annual event. Held on 24 – 26 July, this year was the Society’s 60th rally, an achievement which they might have notched up two years ago had …

Conveniently located, well advertised and enjoying some extremely favourable weather, it was an impressive line-up at Bolton. Cowie’s Funfairs opened for a second time with their ever popular Fun Park at the Bradshawgate area of Bolton town centre. Not far from the main shopping streets …

Tradition is upheld one again at the ancient Rowell Fair, matched by a number of fresh attractions and some favourable weather. Rowell Fair in the Northamptonshire market town of Rothwell took place, as the charter states, from the Saturday before Trinity Sunday for seven days. …

Every Spring Bank Holiday Monday the city of Lichfield in Staffordshire comes alive for the Greenhill Bower celebrations, an event dating back over 800 years. Lichfield Greenhill Bower goes back to the days when the local sheriff inspected his Court of Arraye prior to a …

When you’re only open for two days, you really need the weather to be on your side. At Penwortham Gala in Lancashire, the Showmen got away with it. Whilst technically part of the borough of South Ribble, the small town of Penwortham serves as a …

This year, Thornton and Cleveleys celebrated the 128th anniversary of their gala, with an event organised by a community group of volunteers. The funfair running in conjunction with Thornton-Cleveleys gala festivities was organised by Manchester-based JW Shaw Amusements, and took place on King George’s Playing …

After nine straight weeks in Northampton and a week in Peterborough, John Scarrott & Sons returned to Northampton for the annual Caribbean Carnival. The location for the carnival was the Old Racecourse ground, where the family had been open for three weeks over the May …