Tag: showpeople

• Scotland’s Census 2021 – Finding a place for Showpeople?

  

  With rehearsals for Scotland’s carefully tailored 2021 Census now complete, Fair Glasgow a our colleagues in the Scottish Section of the Showman’s Guild will be looking at the final composition of its data collection form with great interest. The Census is a critical tool for gathering reliable information on the Scottish population. It is used…

  dialectograms

  July 3, 2020

  Identity, Showman’s Guild, Social Issues

  Census, Identity, Mobile Communities, Scotland, Showmen, showpeople

• ‘A Fair Life’ – now open at Riverside!

  Heather

  March 3, 2017

  Glasgow Museums

  carousel horses, display, exhibit, fairground, gonk, gonk dolls, lights, museum, ride, riverside, Riverside Museum, showpeople, speedway, the shows, traction engine, waltzer car

• Riverside Museum Christmas Fair 2016

  

  Heather

  February 3, 2017

  Christmas Fairs at Riverside Museum

  2016, christmas, fair, fairground, Glasgow, riverside, Riverside Museum, scottish, showpeople

• Showpeople and the two world wars

  

  SHOWPEOPLE AND THE TWO WORLD WARS A hundred years ago Britain was in the third year of the First World War (1914-1918). This conflict altered the lives of everyone who lived through that time – including Glasgow’s community of showpeople. The war touched the lives of nearly every citizen of Glasgow and left an enduring mark…

  Heather

  October 6, 2016

  Historical stuff, Uncategorized

  history, horses, showpeople, war, WW1, WW2