Yes please!I have a photo,dated 1932 i think of a carnival in a town in Derbyshire featuring a cardboard Loch Ness Monster.I wonder if anyone would like to see this photo here unless it`s already well known?
I have a photo,dated 1932 i think of a carnival in a town in Derbyshire featuring a cardboard Loch Ness Monster.I wonder if anyone would like to see this photo here unless it`s already well known?
A quick Google suggests it was the Crich Carnival of 1934.
Your picture is not included in the many evocative shots of the carnival over the years!
I'm sure the keepers of that site would be very interested in your photograph, as well as posters on here!
1932 did make me scratch my head a bit, as Nessie did not really "become a big thing" until 1933!
British Carnivals were a repository of weirdness, so the topical monster would feel quite at home, if a good many miles from her Loch. The issue which raises eyebrows today, is the extent to which the notions of the exotic drew on racial and imperial themes. Black-face and grass skirts were great favourites!
A quick Google suggests it was the Crich Carnival of 1934.
Your picture is not included in the many evocative shots of the carnival over the years!
I'm sure the keepers of that site would be very interested in your photograph, as well as posters on here!
1932 did make me scratch my head a bit, as Nessie did not really "become a big thing" until 1933!
British Carnivals were a repository of weirdness, so the topical monster would feel quite at home, if a good many miles from her Loch. The issue which raises eyebrows today, is the extent to which the notions of the exotic drew on racial and imperial themes. Black-face and grass skirts were great favourites!
Whoa! Mr Whitehead, your time traveller credentials have been revealed!Richard/Dickydevo: "Hello,here is the photo I promised.However with all due respect,how could you locate the carnival,Mr Whitehead ,before I had even posted it up here at 7.25pm UK time, Thurs Sept 1st? Your post is dated 1-9-16 at 10.32 am.Indulge my humour,are you a time traveller,able to transport yourself several hours into the future?
dainty underwear and lengths of shapely legs, clad in silken hose. The "Monster" was the entry of Crich Girl Guides
He looks like a time traveller!Whoa! Mr Whitehead, your time traveller credentials have been revealed!
Someone,maybe you,should write up this little known aspect of the whole Nessie sagaI'm sure it was only 11.32 am BST!
Anyway, thanks for sharing a most interesting photo!
The Crich page linked above says,
" . . . a brave few who risked attack to peer underneath it's skin were rewarded by the sight of dainty underwear and lengths of shapely legs, clad in silken hose. The "Monster" was the entry of Crich Girl Guides under the supervision of Captain Lester (My late Aunt Joyce)."
The photo-site definitely identifies the place as Ripley, confirmed by the Jephson's sign in the background. It is interesting that the depicted monster closely tallies with the description of the Guides' monster of 1934; the lady with the placard is most likely a Guide.
Maybe they passed on the prop. to neighbouring troupes to do service at later carnivals.
Nessie's awakening is usually put down to the new road, which was built in 1933. General enthusiasm took off with the famous picture of 1934. So if the Ripley photo is really 1932, it's quite a find.
Thanks Frideswide and seriously if you want to write up with me this neglected aspect(Nessie in carnivals) for my magazine Flying Snake,I`d be more than wiling to co-operateThis is brilliant stuff! Thank you Dickydevo
Hi again,I seem to recall that when the company sent me the photo a few months ago,or on that url link,there was a comment that a trade directory had been used to establish the date and 1932 locationI'm sure it was only 11.32 am BST!
Anyway, thanks for sharing a most interesting photo!
The Crich page linked above says,
" . . . a brave few who risked attack to peer underneath it's skin were rewarded by the sight of dainty underwear and lengths of shapely legs, clad in silken hose. The "Monster" was the entry of Crich Girl Guides under the supervision of Captain Lester (My late Aunt Joyce)."
The photo-site definitely identifies the place as Ripley, confirmed by the Jephson's sign in the background. It is interesting that the depicted monster closely tallies with the description of the Guides' monster of 1934; the lady with the placard is most likely a Guide.
Maybe they passed on the prop. to neighbouring troupes to do service at later carnivals.
Nessie's awakening is usually put down to the new road, which was built in 1933. General enthusiasm took off with the famous picture of 1934. So if the Ripley photo is really 1932, it's quite a find.
My pleasure.ONWARDS AND UPWARDS!This is brilliant stuff! Thank you Dickydevo
there was a comment that a trade directory had been used to establish the date and 1932 location