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 came for the homeschooling notes and stayed for the Tuesdays. It is the only blog I still read slowly, the way you read a letter.”
Jane Smith
Reader since 2021
The Sunday letter
One short email at the end of each week. What got written, what got eaten, and a photograph that did not make it onto the blog.
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Read the archive
Six years of ordinary days, sorted by season. Start anywhere; the entries are short and nothing needs to be read in order.
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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.