What is this site about
Cornish Funfairs.
I have had this URL since the 1990s and I was using it as a repository for thoughts and articles about fairgrounds and showmen who travelled the Duchy of Cornwall.
Since 2020 the site has had a lot of problems with hacking and site hosting.
Now, in 2026 – I am tying again.
Written by Simon R
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T.Rowland – Atlanta Dodgem
What to expect from our website & blog
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Images loaded since the 1990’s
This is a simple blog/ web site of articles relating to my home county of Cornwall, the showmen who travelled it or who are travelling it, today.
Whiteleggs Funfairs Ltd
No, not T.Whiteleggs, this was the brain-child of and family. No strangers to entertaining families he was the Manager of Redruth Cinema and also ran the roller skating complex in Camborne
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Williams Brothers
Another family concern; Williams Brothers of Marizion. A family that ran amusements at the back of Marizion beach for many years and built their own Ark.
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David & Shane Rowland
David Rowland retired after Covid but for many years was the pre-eminent showmen in the Duchy travelling with his Son, Shane.
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More of the same
There are lots of similar chapters to those above
Days out, kept small on purpose
We stopped planning grand outings the year the youngest learned to say no. Now it is one flask, one field or one stretch of coast, and home before anyone is properly cross. Those days fill more of the archive than anything else.
“I have never written a blog and I am not sure that I am starting now.”
Simon R
Troublemaker since 1962
Interested in other fairground pages?
Surprisingly there are several out there and they are not all on Facebook.
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Say hello
Notes from readers get answered slowly but gladly, usually once the children are asleep. Tell me about your week.