Description
In this issue: Ian Trowell returns to the subject of Octopus rides, writing about the many examples he has encountered on his travels through Ireland; early forms of roundabouts are described with contributions from both sides of the Atlantic; and the history of a recently-sold 130-year-old set of juvenile dobbies is recounted. The Feedback section includes, among others, further information on Coney Beach at Porthcawl, Charles Evans’ Orton Ark, the late and often lone Northern showman John Nichols, and that Sergeant Pepper’s drumskin painted by fairground decorator Joe Ephgrave. There are tributes to the late showman Charles Drakeley and Mike Willis lists all the recent machine changes.
