Over 40 years of fairground memorabilia on display at Bonhams

All the fun of the fairground has come to central London – to look at, as an exhibition of fairground memorabilia has filled the ground floor of the Bonhams auction house.The exhibition is a snapshot of over 40 years of collecting fairground memorabilia by Ross Hutchinson, who says he was sparked to interest by an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1977 about fairground decorations.
With fairgrounds in decline and much of the gaudy decorations destined for the bin, he started collect