Category: Ride features

A set of Victorian Gallopers is finally entertaining the public once again after a long and painstaking restoration.In 2009 Malcolm Potts, a heating engineer from Cambridge, made what he describes as an ‘impulse purchase’ from Beamish Museum in County Durham, and in the process became …

Midland Section Showman John Bagnall debuted his Apollo 13 Booster Maxxx ride last month on British soil in Manchester ahead of The Hoppings.The ride, named after the famous NASA rocket and lunar module that launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center in April 1970, was added …

Swingboats, chair-o-planes and a ghost train feature among the models from Robert Hooper.Robert Hooper is a relative newcomer to fairground modelling, having taken up the hobby during lockdown in 2020. His first model was Teddy Morley’s lorry (an Albion) and living wagon from the 1940s, …

As Clacton Pier gets ready for the new season with its February Frenzy offers, the Twister has been sent for total refurbishment – but will be back soon.One of Clacton Pier’s most popular rides has been sent away for a significant makeover: Twister, which was …

The Scottish Showman, who has travelled the UK widely, tells World’s Fair about the machines he’s had over the past 40 years.The RotorI got the Rotor off my dad [Colin] when Joanne and I got married in 1984. We did Christmas at the Kelvin Hall …

Starting life out as a Speedway, Kurt Hill’s Supreme waltzer has seen a few owners and several refurbishments and is sparkling again after some sprucing up.At the recent festival fun fair at Bolton’s Leverhulme Park, World’s Fair came across the Supreme Waltzer from Kurt Hill. This …

Central Pier’s Flying Bob didn’t quite get off to a flying start, thanks to a fire and Covid, but the ride is now attracting plenty of attention from visitors to the iconic pier.Blackpool’s Central Pier, owned by the Sedgwick family under the banner of the …

A last minute addition to Summer Daze at the Trafford Centre was a park model Miami contributed by David Wallis Jnr. Arriving on site with a superheroes theme, it was later ‘wrapped’ in a Beach Party scene in keeping with the event’s seaside vibe.The 14-seat …

A well established feature of Long Eaton Carnival Fair is the display of fairground models in the craft tent, these days organised by Perry Thomas. This year the display took the form of a large fair along the side of the tent with a smaller …