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Carter's Steam Fair
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Will we see you making the announcements with an old fashioned megaphone while stood on a milkcrate?
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Carters are auctioning various stuff next weekend - https://www.carterssteamfair.co.uk/open-weekend-and-auction/
Auction catalogue here, nothing particularly ride related bar a few bits. Some nice looking Dodgems. I am not going to go, or I will buy loads of crap I don't have space for.
Auction catalogue here, nothing particularly ride related bar a few bits. Some nice looking Dodgems. I am not going to go, or I will buy loads of crap I don't have space for.
pluk
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This seemed like an appropriate place to put this, after the Carter's collection being broken up and sold off another heritage fair is finishing at the end of this season. Dingles is closing, with some exhibits moving to another site and others going into storage.
After the fiasco that Dreamland became, Carter's winding up, and now this, the opportunity to ride old rides is slipping away. While appreciating the extra effort required to keep these machines running and safe, I can't believe that an 'upmarket' steam/heritage permanent fairground at a costal or city park location wouldn't be financially viable. It's such a shame there doesn't seem to be anyone out there willing to take that risk.
After the fiasco that Dreamland became, Carter's winding up, and now this, the opportunity to ride old rides is slipping away. While appreciating the extra effort required to keep these machines running and safe, I can't believe that an 'upmarket' steam/heritage permanent fairground at a costal or city park location wouldn't be financially viable. It's such a shame there doesn't seem to be anyone out there willing to take that risk.
That’s a real shame. That will leave Folly Farm, Scarborough Fair and Hollycombe as the main vintage fairground places. Plus there are still various steam rallies, although the largest one (The Great Dorset Steam Fair) has also been discontinued.
It does make you think that if all the public money that’s been ploughed into Dreamland had gone into some of these other projects, it could have done a lot of good. Just the £5.5 million of Heritage Lottery Funding used to restore vintage fairground rides for Dreamland could have been transformative at somewhere like Dingles.
It does make you think that if all the public money that’s been ploughed into Dreamland had gone into some of these other projects, it could have done a lot of good. Just the £5.5 million of Heritage Lottery Funding used to restore vintage fairground rides for Dreamland could have been transformative at somewhere like Dingles.