Description
Fairground Strollers and Showfolk
Frances Brown
First Edition 2001
Hardback in a sun faded spine. dust jacket, 10″ X 8″, 185 pages + index,
Illustrated with 160 b+w historic photographs
A history, from 1800, of a family of fairground travellers and the part they played in the development of fairs and popular entertainment. With many previously unpublished photographs of performers, fairground rides, traction engines, circuses, travelling menageries and bioscopes.
