Malcolm Potts cutting the ribbon on his newly restored Gallopers. Photo: Malcolm Potts

New lease of life for fairground horses

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 …

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