It’s been 60 years since Mary Poppins premiered, and Dick Van Dyke who played lovable chimney sweep Bert in the film (complete with atrocious cockney accent) has just won an Emmy award at the age of 98! Did you know that we supplied funfair props for both the 1964 Mary Poppins film and the 2018 […]
Category: Filming
“Lola’s Theme” – the debut hit of British House Duo the Shapeshifters (Simon Marlin and Swedish producer Max Reich, from Gothenburg) went straight into the UK charts at number one on its release on 12 July 2004… The video was shot at George Irvin’s Funfair at Clapham Common, featuring his arcade, David Irvin’s Hellraiser Waltzer […]
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 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 […]
Now we are not people to give anything away in advance (as if, would we do that? Not half as you will know dear reader) but on Sunday 24th April watchers of the very popular and entertaining programme “The Only Way is Essex” saw a party and also some fairground rides provided by us…