Description

Renee Hamilton recalls visiting the Fair as a child and seeing Madame La Guillotine lose her head, a tiger behaving badly and a Pony with a point to make. Accompanied by photographs of Hull Fair during the same period. This resource was created as part of the National Fairground’s project, ‘Hull Fair, fun for all’, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund in association with Hull City Council (see http://www.hullfair.dept.shef.ac.uk). The resource is the copyright of the National Fairground Archive, University of Sheffield (http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/) and has been made available with their permission. Some rights reserved (see terms of licence by clicking on the CC licence logo below).

Resource details

Added By:	Dr Matt Phillpott
Added On:	28 Aug 2009 16:05
Creators:	Professor Vanessa Toulmin, National Fairground Archive, Theatre Studies/English, University of Sheffield
Tags:	ukoer, oerhist, history, national fairground archive, hull fair, hull, theatre, performance studies, oral history, madame la guillotine, tiger, pony, roundabouts, waltzers, sideshows, circus
Languages:	English
Permissions:	World
Link:	http://humbox.ac.uk/449/
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Collection(s)

• Hull Fair, Fun for All DVD Collection 2: Between the Wars