We are fortunate to meet during the year many of Britain’s hard working Mayors who are so important in their roles, representing their boroughs and their areas and also raising funds for vital charities. We are proud to help them by raising funds from you, our visitors, and passing them on. That is why George […]
All through the year we at Irvin Leisure try to support good causes, other than the great cause of giving everyone at our events a wonderful time, and last week we enjoyed a double treat. First of all, the Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham Councillor Mercy Umeh visited our fair at Shepherds Bush on our […]
From time to time we have requests from photographers who want to come and film our rides for their own portfolios, and we love to help. These webpages feature some, but none better than these taken by our friend Colin Bridgewater and so he has agreed we can share them with you! They seem […]
On Monday 7th April, the professional team from Dispatches at ITN broadcast a thought provoking programme on sugar content in “low fat” food. It was so good that your author, not a think type of a bloke, is now only chewing on lettuce leaves! However whilst the programme was superb, the creative thinking that went […]
We love to see famous people visiting our fairs, and in the news stories on these pages you will find photos of lots of them including models, the odd Prime Minister (sorry, we do not mean the Prime Minister is odd but we hope you understand), pop stars, X Factor contestants (as opposed to pop […]
We love to hear from schools who are undertaking projects related to funfairs as they are such an important part of leisure and have been for hundreds of years. We know that a lot of young people are doing projects for GCSE as many of them email us and ask for information which we […]
We cannot tell you much about this photo at this time other than to hint that we were thrilled to be part of the filming of an episode of a famous Detective series to come up later this year. Lots of drama and great acting, plus the odd corpse here and there, and some of […]
From time to time I wonder if anyone ever reads our website, and then we hear from people who have indeed done so and found something out that excites them! One such occasion was when we heard from Australia about Mary Ann Wright who is shown on the Irvin Family history stories on this […]
I wonder how many people reading this post (if any such people really exist) are aware of how hard their local Mayors work each year on behalf of their borough. A really tough job, and a very important one at that because whilst they may not always wield the top political power in the Council […]
Whilst we were recently at our Spring Fair on Turnham Green we were struck by the beautiful new herbal garden that was next to us. We found out that this had been put in by the Friends of Turnham Green themselves and they kindly sent over this photo. They tell us they are going […]
