Mechanical Memories Magazine

Issue: 2014-January - Issue 82

The centre' s programme will include talks, tours, exhibitions and learning
opportunities along with pop-up events and visiting attractions including drive-in
movies, vintage vehicle rallies and live petlormance. The space will be designed and
set dressed to evoke the atmosphere of Dreamland and things to come in 2015 .
Thanet District Council has now released tendering documents for both the Scenic
Railway engineering and trains contract and the structure and build contract.
Expressions of interest for construction management are now being evaluated.
The rides restoration programme is well underway at David Littleboy 's workshop in
Wakefield with work being carried out on the Dreamland Jets and Gallopers.
Nick Laister
Nick Laister (Chairman, The Dreamland Trust)
Jan Leandro (Heritage and Engagement Officer, The Dreamland Trust)
www.dreamlandmargate.com
www.savedreamland.co.uk
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Gallopers :
A Survey of Surviving Sets
of Galloping Horses
from an original project by Michael Smith
with additional research by Kevin Scrivens and Stephen Smith
In the late 1970s, a new group, the Fairground Association of Great
Britain was formed, and with it came a new magazine 'A Century of
Tobers' (later renamed The Fairground Mercury). One of the
features of this new magazine was a series of articles which
surveyed all surviving sets of Galloping Horses in the UK. The
articles were later revised and republished in booklet form, and have
formed the main reference on this subject for many years.
Over the past few years, the subject has been more extensively
researched by fairground historians Kevin Scrivens and Stephen
Smith, and the results are now published in this new book.
The book features around 375 black & white and colour photos,
many of which have never previously been published.
ISBN Number: 9780955661044
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2013
Publisher: Fairground Heritage Trust
Our Price: £20.00
To buy this book, please send a cheque,
with £1.99 postage and packing, payable to 'Joyland Books', to:
Joyland Books, Southcombe Farm
Southcombe, Chipping Norton
Oxfordshire OX7 SQH
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