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Orton and Spooner Collection
Orton and Spooner were major ride-builders and
decorators based at Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Their worked
spanned early carving through to construction of 19th Century Shows,
classic Scenic Railways, up to the design and building of 1930s
thrill rides such as the Ark and Dodgem.
The collection within the Archive formed part
of the David Braithwaite Collection, kindly donated by his family.
Braithwaite always intended to write a history of the company to
sit alongside his earlier works documenting Savages of King's Lynn
and the general subject of Fairground Architecture. The work was
never completed. Though Braithwaite attained a substantial and important
part of the Orton and Spooner archive, the holdings that survived
and reached his collection were sadly far from complete. In addition,
much of the material includes plan and blueprints, making conservation
and digitsation a costly and time-consuming issue.
These galleries are created using the photographs
from the Orton and Spooner collection, kindly funded by the Fairground
Association of Great Britain.
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