The Carters Steam Fair Blog
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Coronavirus updates for our 2020 tour
A message for all of our lovely Carters fans and friends. We have been working hard behind the scenes organising our 2020 tour dates and this time of year is usually exciting for us as we announce the locations we will be visiting this year. We had hoped that we could...
All the places you can visit our beautiful vintage funfair in 2020
We’re bringing good old-fashioned family fun to your doorstep with our 2020 vintage funfair tour. Bring the family along to experience unique vintage fairground rides dating from the 1890s to the 1960s and they can enjoy classic side-stall games like Hook-a-Duck too....
Community Food Deliveries
CARTERS COMMUNITY FOOD DELIVERIES Fruit and Veg and a little more... Due to supermarkets beginning to return to normal in terms of stock levels we are no longer continuing with our fresh box deliveries. You can however contact Glenn who was helping us to...
2020 – Celebrating 40 years of steam fair fun at Pinkneys Green
In 2020 we'll be celebrating 40 years of visiting Pinkneys Green in Maidenhead. We love taking our vintage fair on tour around the south of England, but there is one event in particular which we all hold close to our hearts. Each year in May we visit Pinkneys Green in...
Celebrating traditional skills in a digital age – our first signwriting festival
Celebrating traditional skills in a digital age - our first signwriting festival We live in a world where we are surrounded by content that is competing for our attention: videos, memes, images and messages fill our digital screens with bold colours competing for our...
The fair in focus, as seen by photographer Kirsty Meredith
The fair in focus: Carters Steam Fair through a photographer's lens. Our beautifully restored rides are fun to ride, but they are very photogenic too. in this series on the blog we’ll be sharing the work of the incredible photographers that visit us when we are on...
Lights, camera action! Olympus photography workshop at Reading
When Olympus asked if we could host a vintage style photography workshop for photo enthusiasts at the fair, we thought it was a great idea. So, on a slightly grey September day just before we opened in Prospect Park (Reading) we were thrilled to welcome a group of 20...
Celebrate traditional skills in a digital age at Carters Steam Fair’s Signwriting Festival
Come and join us for a weekend of celebrating the traditional art of signwriting alongside our beautiful vintage funfair and help us smash last year’s total of £10,000 raised for the Alexander Devine children’s hospice. On the 21st and 22nd of September when the fair...
Bath residents offer: Get 12 kids rides for £20 with your Discovery Card.
Touring the country with a vintage funfair is a busy lifestyle so we always look forward to our long stay in Royal Victoria Park, Bath. The fair is open until Sunday the 18th August this year and we are excited to have teamed up with the Bath Discovery Card to give...
Meet the latest addition to the Carter family: Carter the lion.
The Lions of Windsor trail which runs from the 10 August to the 28 October 2019 will feature a pride of over 45 individually decorated, super-sized lion sculptures displayed across the Royal Borough to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Queen Victoria and...
The fair in focus, as seen by photographer Graeme Worsfold
Our vintage rides and beautiful fairground art attract lots of photographers to the fair. This is Carters Steam Fair as seen by photographer Graeme Worsfold when he visited the fair in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Tokens of fun at the fair
One of the things we get asked a lot of questions about at the fair is ride tokens. In this post we’ll explain all about them and also share a few fun facts – Did you know Harry Hill’s face featured on our first ever ride token in 2014! Why do we use ride tokens at...
Carters Steam Fair is no longer on tour and we have found new homes for many of our vintage fairground rides and attractions.
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