The Rides of My Life: Garry Michael Leach

As the son of past Yorkshire Section chairman Garry Leach, Lancashire-based Garry Michael Leach grew up around fairground games. Here he explains why, even though he now travels a set of Dumbos, small stuff is still an important part of his business and he’s in …

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The Rides of My Life: James Botton Jnr

Son of Botton’s Pleasure Beach managing director James Botton, 29-year-old James Jnr oversees the day-to-day running of the Skegness amusement park. Here are all the major rides that have been added during his working life, including an award-winning new attraction made in-house. Extreme We got …

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Mellors go back to the future at Fantasy Island

Relaunched by James Mellors Jnr, the Time Machine brought a touch a ‘Magic’ to Fantasy Island’s 30th anniversary celebrations this summer.  The attraction in question, the only Huss Magic in the UK, now sports a retro-futuristic new look following an extensive refurbishment that Mellors describes …

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The Rides of my Life: Raymond Richmond & family

This month they will be presenting their waltzer for the 18th time on Walton Street during Hull Fair. Yet the locally-based Richmond family have amassed and also constructed a diverse array of other attractions over the past two decades. Here is their story, as told …

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Inferno: Thurston’s red-hot Super Trooper

Super Troopers have enjoyed something of a comeback in recent years, yet until now they’ve all appeared rather similar. Breaking the mould is the new ride gracing the run of Stanley Thurston & Sons. With three-seater cars reminiscent of fire engines, red arms covered in …

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Time for the UK’s tallest Star Flyer: Big Ben Tower

Star Flyers have been a UK fairground favourite for over a decade. As the nation welcomes its first 80 metre-tall version, Owen Ralph highlights the growth – in size and popularity – of such attractions. A glistening centrepiece, even shinier then than refurbished clock tower that houses …

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Psycho: a Loop Fighter with all the extras

Alex Crow’s Psycho certainly caught thrill seekers’ eyes on Newcastle Town Moor in June, when it was one of two major new rides at the Hoppings. The fifth Technical Park Loop Fighter to enter the UK in 13 years, the attraction was fresh out of …

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The Rides of My Life: James Harris

After starting out his travelling career with a mini Octopus, Eastern Counties Showman James Harris has amassed a solid stable of attractions that he and his wife Martha tour with their children James Jnr and Amelia, largely to their own fairs. Paratrooper My first big …

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The Rides of My Life: Stanley Reeves Jnr

When he was growing up, Stanley Reeves Jnr’s parents Stanley and Debbie travelled a Roller Ghoster and fun house far and wide before diversifying into simulators and reverse bungees, the second of which Stanley Jnr still travels today. This is the young Showman’s story. Starting …

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The Rides of My Life: Billy Whitelegg

Former Showmen’s Guild president Billy Whitelegg and his wife Louise started travelling a hoopla stall in the 1950s, given to them by Billy’s mother Daisy Whitelegg. Further games followed before they bought a juvenile that ended being sold to the most unusual of places. The …

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