Welcome to The Fairground Heritage Trust
The collection of the Trust is now on display at The National Fairground Museum (Statfold, Tamworth) and at Hollycombe (Fleet, Hampshire)
Dingles Fairground Museum (Devon) closed, permanently, on the 2nd November 2024.
Welcome to the website home page of the Fairground Heritage Trust. Our aim is to preserve historic fairground equipment, imagery and memorabilia for future generations, in the hope of fostering understanding of, and support for, a genuinely national institution. As a vital ingredient in the genesis of leisure in this country, the Fairground Heritage Trust believes that fairground has played just as important a role as any other type of popular entertainment in shaping today’s society.
Established in 1988, The Trust has been successful in building up a large collection of rides and fairground-related artefacts, many of key historical significance. Following many years of uncertainty the Trust opened Dingles Fairground Museum in 2006 through the generosity of Mr Richard Sandercock and the hard-work of the Trustees. Growing and developing, surviving Covid-19 it was increasingly apparent that the costs of running our own museum were prohibitive in the Devon site and in 2023 the Trustees agreed to close the museum and find a more sustainable home for the collection.
After 18 years in Devon, the Trust’s collection has now been relocated and is split between Statfold https://statfold.com/national-fairground-museum/ and Hollycombe https://www.hollycombe.co.uk/