This page will always show different pictures which have been a part of my life:

December 2001 - For this month a picture of the Showmans engine Dragon generating lights at Peterborough Christmas fair,

For November, a picture of Showtrac Gladiator pulling the two box trucks from the no 2 dodgem and a living trailer. Picture taken in 1978.

SEPTEMBER - A picture this month of the juvenile chairs that I owned in 1991. I sold these on in 1992. Open at Corby Market:

For August a then and now set of pictures about the infamous staff quarters housed in the Noddy.

“NODDY” – Colin DeVey purchased the Noddy from fellow showman Tom Opie for the princely sum of £25 in the late 70’s. It served the firm for just over 20 years until it was left to rest at Cullumpton. The Noddy was used as the sleeping quarters by the staff of the Waltzer and Ark and then latterly the Orbiter and Round Up when the Ark stopped travelling. It had 5 beds in it and a collection of cupboards.
I have many memories of the Noddy, at 14 I was tattoo’d in the Noddy. I stayed my first night in there at 15 having gone off to Dawlish with the firm rather than go to school. The smell in the Noddy on a hot summers morning is something that can only be imagined by those of you who have not lived in staff quarters.
I first started driving the Noddy in 1981 and drove it until 1987 when I started driving on the Ark loads. The Noddy has no glamour about it, but if it could talk it could tell thousands of stories particularly about the young women and daughters of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall who frequented this “Love Palace on Wheels”.

July's Picture of the Month:

Appletons Ghost Train at Taunton in 1982.

Last Months Picture:

The Carousel in the main shopping street in St.Jean Du Mont France. The build up reveals that the ride is in almost original condition.

May Photo of the Month:

Colin DeVeys Plant Truck at Exeter in the late 70's.