A Hopping good time: one of Europe’s largest travelling funfairs returns to Newcastle – in pictures

'The Hoppings funfair is believed to be one of the largest travelling funfairs in Europe, comprising hundreds of attractions set up on Newcastle upon Tyne’s Town Moor’

#photography #entertainment #funfair #Newcastle

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2026/jun/22/hopping-travelling-funfair-newcastle-in-pictures

Basil sneaks out of the zoo in his disguise -Brown Bear’s Big Day Out

Brown Bear’s Big Day Out is a story about a bear that disguises himself as a person so that he can escape from the zoo and visit a funfair called Dizzyland.

In this illustration from the story, Basil has put his disguise on and is sneaking out of the zoo so that he can go to the funfair.

The book is available globally from Amazon in both printed and ebook formats. This is the .co.uk link, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brown-Bears-Big-Day-Adventures/dp/1980868859/, and this is for .com, https://www.amazon.com/Brown-Bears-Big-Day-Out-ebook/dp/B086DSF5N7/. This third link is for my author page, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Our Etsy shop has blank greeting, birthday, invitation cards of the book’s cover artwork, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com. Larger quantities of cards available.

We have printed this illustration and one of the photographs onto organic cotton T-shirts for children that are available from our Teemill website, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/.

Our links

See more of Gerry Newton’s wonderful art, https://www.geraldnewtonart.com/.

Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.

My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.

Our Etsy page, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.

This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.

We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.

Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.

On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/

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🎡 A colourful abandoned theme park in Japan, it closed two decades ago. Apparently, kids today just don't care about the classics. What's your favourite classic fairground ride?

I always love the spinning teacups; I always picked the blue one 💙

#Abandoned #Japan #Photography #FunFair #Colours #Rust #Memories #Fairground