FAIRGROUND ATTRACTION
Mar 30, 2022
4 minutes
STORY AND PICTURES BY MARTIN PORT
THE fun of the fair – the sounds, the colours, the lights and music. For many it reminds them of a childhood treat that ended with post-waltzer dizziness and sticky candy floss fingers and it is these memories that have been rekindled for the last 40 years by Berkshire-based Carters Steam Fair.
Anyone familiar with the Carter’s ensemble rolling into town will know only too well the heavy-hitters that move the collection of classic rides from one location to the next: Scammell, Atkinson, Foden, ERF. But at the centre of it all is a humble Land Rover Defender.
John and Anna Carter began collecting vintage fair rides in the late 1970s and it soon turned
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