Mechanical Memories Magazine
Issue: 2014-February - Issue 83 - Page 4
Dreamland
MARGA T E
Save Dreamland Update February 2014
DREAMLAND LEGEND PASSES AW A Y
News has reached the Save Dreamland Campaign that one of Dreamland's most well
known characters has died. Henry Frederick Smith, an extremely popular travelling
showman, who had many rides in Dreamland during the 1970s up until 1982, brought
the first Orbiter in the world to the park.
He died on 12 December 2013, three days shy of his 78th birthday, after a long
and hard battle with Parkinson's disease, which his grandson Henry Martin told the
Campaign "slowly but surely robbed him of all the things he loved".
The photograph below shows Henry Smith with his fleet of vehicles.
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MARGA T E
Save Dreamland Update February 2014
DREAMLAND LEGEND PASSES AW A Y
News has reached the Save Dreamland Campaign that one of Dreamland's most well
known characters has died. Henry Frederick Smith, an extremely popular travelling
showman, who had many rides in Dreamland during the 1970s up until 1982, brought
the first Orbiter in the world to the park.
He died on 12 December 2013, three days shy of his 78th birthday, after a long
and hard battle with Parkinson's disease, which his grandson Henry Martin told the
Campaign "slowly but surely robbed him of all the things he loved".
The photograph below shows Henry Smith with his fleet of vehicles.
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Future scanning projects are planned by the International Arcade Museum Library (IAML).