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Observer accounts: "Blackpool. The Telescope Men", ts, 4pp, Easter Saturday, JW; "Blackpool, Lawrence Wrights Singing Booth", ts, 7pp, Easter Saturday, JW; "Patter of Weighing Machine Men", ts, 2pp, 5.6.-9.6.[?], JW; "La Celeste on South Shore", ts, 6pp, 6.6.[?], JW; "Invisible Ray", ts, 4pp, 6.6.[?], JW; "Robut" (sic), ts, 1p, 8.6.[?], JW; "Blackpool", ms, 1p, 4.7.[?], LT, fortune-telling robot; "Central beach", ts, 1p, 1.8.37, HH, side shows; "Booths on the Promenade from Wells Corner to Colonel Barker", ts, 7pp, 30.8.[?], RP/SF/IR; "Coney Island", ts, 2pp (damaged, part of p1 torn and missing); "Blackpool Fun House", ms, 4pp, 3.9.[?] CM; "Side shows on North Pier", ms, 4pp, 4.9.[?], JLW; "Aeroplanes", ms/ts, 2pp, 7.9.37, flying trip; "Aeroplane Club", ts, 1p, 5.11.37, JM-J; "Amusements. Blackpool", ts, 1p, 18.10-19.10.37, JM-J; "The Tunnel", ms, 3pp; "Luna Park", ms, 1p; "A trip in the submarine to the Treasure Cave", ms, 4pp, 6.12.38; "Father Christmas, Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs in the Magic Grotto", ms, 11pp; "Interview: Father Christmas at The Submarine, Whiteheads", ts, 2pp, GBE; Index cards (3), ms, references to flying saucers, fairyland grotto and space ship

Misc, ts/ms, 7pp

Newspaper cuttings (6)

"Amusements Park Associations", ts, 1p, list of questions (photocopy)

Observer accounts: "The Tower", ms, 20pp, Good Friday 1938, TWL; "Side shows. Pleasure Beach", ts, 7pp, 17.4.[?], JS/DG, index card attached; "African dances. Luna Park", ts, 4pp, 5.6.[?], JW; "Blackpool", ms, 1.7.[?], LT, the front, South shore and Luna Park; "Luna Park", ts, 3pp, 2.8.37, HH; "Bank Holiday Monday Afternoon", ts, 1p, HH; "Olympia", ms/ts, 2pp, 3.9.37, [BCP], [ms incomplete]; "Tower Blackpool", ms, 3pp, 3.9.[?], CM; "Pleasure Beach", ts, 2pp, 3.9.[?], BB, side shows; "Olympia", ts, 2pp, 6.9.[?], slot machines; "Groups on the Pleasure Beach", ts, 4pp, 6.9.[?], HH/WEM; "Details of actions and conversations of four persons followed by me in the Tower", ts, 2pp, 7.9.37, IR; "Tower", ts, 1p, 7.9.[?], BB, [lacks p1]; "Details of observations at The Tower, Blackpool", ms, 4pp, 27.11.[?], AG; "Tower", ms/ts, 2pp, TH; "[?] to Pin [Tables]", ms, 6pp, CHL, (photocopy); "Gambling", ms, 4pp, (photocopy)

Untitled document, index card, ts, to Brian with instructions for side show observations

Observer accounts: "Palmistry", ts, 2pp, 3.9.37, Madam Hartpool and Gypsy Smith; "Blackpool Saturday", ms, 4pp, LT, about Tiki (charm) shop; "Palmist", ts, 1p, 23.10.37, ZB, the Pleasure Beach; "Patter at the Horoscopes", ts, 1p, [JW]

Magazine cuttings (4)

Newspaper cutting (1)

Various palm reading items

Untitled document, ms, 3pp, 6.4.38, BWW list of questions about Blackpool

"System of questions used on Saturday August 14", ts, 4pp, 3-point questionnaire and some responses

Observer accounts: "Belisha Crossings", ts, 5pp, 12.9.[?], RGW, count at St. John's Square; "Belisha Crossings", ts, 5pp, 12.9.[?], RWG, count at Talbot Square; "Bank Holiday Monday", ts, 4pp, [JB], behaviour of couples and groups of young women and men; "Salvation Army", ts, 1p, 4.8.37, JS, Concert Inn, Blackpool; Untitled document, ts, 1p, 5.9.37, (incomplete lacks pp1-2); "Guy Faulks (sic) Night", ts, 3pp, 5.11.[?], JM-J; Untitled document, ms, 2pp, about four young women on holiday in Blackpool; Untitled document, ms, 2pp, overheards; Untitled document, ms, 4pp, notes relating to Blackpool; "Taking Blackpool back", ts, 1p, about postcards and presents; Index cards (6) ms, references to Blackpool; Misc, ts/ms, 6pp

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