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BBC News
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Famous 130 year old fairground ride joins Black Country museum
A 130-year-old fairground ride will be the newest addition to a historical funfair within the Black Country Living Museum. The museum's resident fairground will be home to the "bright and colourful" Jubilee Steam Gallopers from Saturday. The ride, built by Tidmans of Norwich in 1895, consists of 30 wooden horses and two chariots with bench seats. The ride has appeared in TV and film productions including Paddington 2, Call the Midwife, Rocketman, and The Theory of Everything. Alex Hyman, who owns, conserves and operates the independently run fair within the museum, is the ride's ninth and latest carousel was once part of Carters Steam Fair, a travelling vintage fair in England, founded in 1977 by John Carter. Mr Hyman has acquired a "significant" amount of Carters' collection, which stopped touring in 2024. He said: "We are very proud to have kept a large proportion of the original Carters steam fair collection together." Acquired in February from Joby Carter of Carters Steam Fair, the carousel comes with a mechanical Gavioli music Carter said: "As much as you can love an inanimate object, I love this ride, and I always will. "It's the last ride I sold because it needed to go to the right home. This one wasn't about money, it was about trying to get it to the right owner."All proceeds raised by the fairground go directly into restoring and collecting historical rides, sideshows and games, said the museum. Follow BBC Birmingham on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Metro
07-05-2025
- Metro
Grandad, 60, killed in 'stag do fight' on board cruise ship named and pictured
A man allegedly killed on a luxury cruise just hours into a stag do has been remembered as a 'legend'. James Messham, 60, died on the MSC Virtuosa at around 8.30pm on Saturday after an 'altercation'. He was travelling with relatives and is understood to have run the motorbike show The Wall of Death. The ship was in British waters after leaving Southampton bound for Bruges, Belgium, when a fight broke out. A 57-year-old man from Exeter has been arrested on suspicion of murder. On Wednesday, Hampshire Constabulary said he had been bailed as the investigation continues. It is understood three family members of the dead man, two women and a man met the vessel on the quayside to try and gain entry on the ship. Joby Carter said he was a 'proper gent' who was part of Carter's Steam Fair until around eight years ago. He told The Sun: 'I was absolutely gutted when I heard the news. He was a legend. 'We used to travel Carter's Steam Fair. He approached us because he had a wall of death and wanted to travel with us. 'We always got along with him. He was a proper gent, salt of the earth. 'You knew if you had a problem he would come and help you any time day or night.' Posts on social media describe James as an 'icon' and a 'big strong man who will be missed'. Other family members have posted pictures of him in tribute. Harry Clark, the winner of the BBC show Traitors last year, was also on board the luxury cruise. More Trending There is no suggestion Harry was involved in the violence. Lynda Hardiman-Pearce, who runs catering business the Spud Shack, described meeting the celebrity before witnessing the violence. She told Metro: 'It was carnage on the ship there were a lot of people drinking a lot. I thought I was a party animal until I saw this lot. 'People were jolly but it was a bit like a modern Wild West with stag and hen dos everywhere.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page. MORE: Urgent search for missing girl after sister found 'starving and locked in closet by mum' MORE: Girl, 13, raped by teenage boy 'last seen at McDonald's' MORE: Nine arrested after group celebrated Hitler's birthday with cake at a pub
