George Irvin's Funfairs

23/04/2025

Happy St George’s Day!

22/04/2025

Make some memories with your family this Spring at the funfair in Roundwood Park!

We've got a HALF-PRICE RIDE DAY on Monday 28th April, and you can save 20% on all other days by booking your ride tokens online - just check out the link in our bio ❤

Keep your eye on our social media for our competition to win a FREE family day out at the funfair over the next few days.

We are supporting the local community by donating to the Nature Connections Centre in Roundwood Park via the Harlesden Neighbourhood Forum, and the Mayor of Brent's chosen charity.

OPENING DATES & TIMES
Saturday 26th April 1pm - 10pm
Sunday 27th April 1pm - 10pm
Monday 28th April HALF-PRICE RIDE TOKEN DAY 4pm - 10pm
Tuesday 29th April CLOSED
Wednesday 30th April CLOSED
Thursday 1st May CLOSED
Friday 2nd May 4pm - 10pm
Saturday 3rd May 1pm - 10pm
Sunday 4th May 1pm - 10pm
Monday 5th May BANK HOLIDAY 4pm - 10pm
Tuesday 6th May CLOSED
Wednesday 7th May CLOSED
Thursday 8th May CLOSED
Friday 9th May 4pm - 10pm
Saturday 10th May 1pm - 10pm
Sunday 11th May 1pm - 10pm

21/04/2025

20/04/2025

Happy Easter! Why not celebrate with the family at our Hampton Court Palace or Clapham Common funfairs?

19/04/2025

🚨Sky Fall, Drop Tower… London Debut 🚨

Great to catch up with Tom and Lana at George Irvin's Funfairs for the Easter 🐣 bank holiday.

Sky Fall Drop Tower It’s first appearance on English soil, new owns Tom and Lana Matthews and looks brand new with green and yellow themed with viewing platform. I’ve been told it’s traveling to Hoppings Fair for this season. Highly recommend this to anyone

Absolutely stunning and wish them all the best with their new purchase, I know you guys will do great! 😊

17/04/2025

17/04/2025

Mr Giraffe had a bit too much fun at Hampton Court today and got lost. If you've seen him, please send us a message so we can reunite him with a sad child!

16/04/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner!

Jennifer Beharie please send us a message on Facebook to claim your prize.

Thank you to everyone who entered - we hope to see you at the fair soon!

Don't forget that rides are half-price at Hampton Court on Thursday and Tuesday, and you can get 20% extra ride tokens for free when you book online on all other days!

10/04/2025

Please donate or share to help Phillip to recover after his accident

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10/04/2025

We're BACK at the historic Hampton Court Palace Easter funfair, which has been celebrated since the mid-nineteenth century, and we want to give YOU the chance to win a free family day out!

One lucky winner will get free entry for a family of five, plus 10 free rides and two bags of candy floss at our BIGGEST and BEST fair. Sound good? Here's what you've gotta do:

To , here's what you gotta do:
🌟1. Make sure you FOLLOW our page
🌟2. COMMENT the names of THREE friends on this post
🌟3. SHARE this post to your FB profile
🌟4. SEND us a screenshot of your share
👀Don't forget to complete ALL FOUR STEPS to enter!👀

🎉We'll be announcing the lucky winner on our Facebook and Instagram accounts on 📅Wednesday 16th April 📅, so stay tuned! 🎉

⚠️Heads-Up: This contest is free to enter. The lucky winner will be tagged and we will ask you to message us to claim your prize. Don't fall for anyone posing as us and messaging you first. We'll NEVER ask for your bank details or ask you to click on suspicious links or fill out any form to claim your prize. ⚠️

🎠Feel free to enter on both Instagram and Facebook! 🎠 All entries will be pooled together and the winner will be picked by random number generator. You can enter as many of our contests as you want, but note that if you've won before, you can't win again for the next twelve months.

🎠Best of luck, and we can't wait to see you at the funfair soon! 🎠

We've got not one but TWO half-price ride days - and don't forget you can save 20% on all other days when you book your ride tokens in advance through the link in our bio!

OPENING DATES & TIMES
✂️Thursday 17th April 12noon - 11pm ✂️HALF-PRICE RIDES DAY✂️
Good Friday 18th April 12noon - 11pm
Saturday 19th April 12noon - 11pm
🥚Easter Sunday 20th April 12noon - 11pm 🥚 Celebrate Easter with us!🥚
🥚Easter Monday 21st April 12noon - 11pm 🥚 Celebrate Easter with us! 🥚
✂️Tuesday 22nd April 12noon - 11pm ✂️HALF-PRICE RIDES DAY✂️

09/04/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a lucky winner!

Congratulations to Artists - you've won free entry to Clapham Common funfair for 5 people plus 10 free rides and 2 bags of candy floss! Please send us a ,message on Facebook to claim your prize.

Thank you very much to everyone that entered - keep an eye out for our Hampton Court Palace funfair competition which goes live tomorrow!

We hope to see you at Clapham Copmmon funfair, open 1pm to 9pm every day until Monday 21st April. Don't forget you can get 20% extra ride tokens for FREE when you book online at the link in our bio!

09/04/2025

Did you know that the Easter fair has been happening on Hampton Court Palace Green since the mid-nineteenth century? We are proud to share its fascinating history in About Thames Ditton magazine.

Our historian has been deep in the archives to bring you the true tale of a heroic rescue that happened there and a local's memories of boxing booths and 'the banana man' at 'one of the best fairs in London'!

07/04/2025

🎠 The fair will be back at Hampton Court Palace Green for Easter, just as it has been since the 1850s - and this year, we've got something new coming! We'll give you a clue: it's BIG 👀

This is our biggest funfair with the best selection of rides and attractions for all ages - the perfect place to enjoy the long Easter weekend with your family. 🥚🐇

We're open every day from 12pm to 11pm from Thursday 17th April to Tuesday 22nd April. Rides are HALF-PRICE on both Thursday and Tuesday.

But if you can't make our half-price days, don't worry - you can still save money by booking your ride tokens online in advance. We'll treat you to 20% extra free - and there's no booking fee! Just check out the link in our bio.

OPENING DATES & TIMES
Thursday 17th April 12 noon - 11pm ✂️ HALF-PRICE RIDE DAY ✂️
Good Friday 18th April 🥚 12 noon - 11pm
Saturday 19th April 12 noon - 11pm
Easter Sunday 20th April 🥚 12 noon - 11pm
Easter Monday 21st April 🥚 12 noon - 11pm
Tuesday 22nd April 12 noon - 11pm ✂️ HALF-PRICE RIDE DAY ✂️

03/04/2025

The Strange Link Between Funfair Rides, Crystal Palace And The World's First Machine Gun!

We’re in Crystal Palace Park at the moment, where funfair rides have been delighting people for well over a century. Here you can see Sir Hiram Maxim’s Captive Flying Machine in front of the Crystal Palace in 1904 (Lefthand postcard from George Irvin’s personal collection, righthand photo courtesy of John phillips235/Wikimedia Commons.).

This ride was designed by Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, an American-born inventor best known for creating the first fully automatic machine gun in Hatton Garden in 1884. The Maxim gun went on to change the world and earn Hiram a knighthood (the noise from the guns also made him profoundly deaf) but what Hiram really wanted to invent was a flying machine!

He wasn’t very successful at making flying machines, but repurposed his research to make a marvellous fairground ride – the Captive Flying Machine, which made its debut at Earl’s Court in 1904, just months after the Wright brothers made the world’s first aeroplane.

Hiram made several other Captive Flying Machines in 1904, including the one for Crystal Palace, one for Southport, and one that went to Blackpool, which you can still ride at the Pleasure Beach today. We believe this makes it the oldest working permanent funfair ride in Europe! The picture above was taken in 2005 at the Pleasure Beach, but perhaps our enthusiast followers may have some more modern pics!

As the ride spins, the cars sway out like chair-o-planes, simulating flight, but Hiram had hoped to go further. He had dreamed of adding rudders and airfoils so that riders could steer their cars and really feel as if they were flying, but there were doubts as to whether this would be safe. Hiram lamented that without this sense of control the ride was ‘”simply a glorified merry-go-round”. We wonder if he would have felt more pleased with the machine if he knew it was still delighting riders over 120 years later.

Sir Hiram Maxim invented many other things, including the world’s first automatic fire sprinkler, a curling, and an aerial torpedo gun. He suffered with bronchitis and invented several inhalers to help with his condition. People were much less impressed with these than with his guns, to which he said “it will be seen that it is a very creditable thing to invent a killing machine, and nothing less than a disgrace to invent an apparatus to prevent human suffering”.

His son, Hiram Percy Maxim, invented a gun silencer and car muffler, but was too late to save his father’s hearing.

Hiram lived in south London, first in West Norwood then later in Streatham, and is buried in the beautiful West Norwood cemetery.

01/04/2025

WIN a free day of family fun at the Clapham Common Spring Funfair!

We're returning to the south side of Clapham Common from Friday 4th April to Monday 21st April and you can FREE entry for five people, plus TEN free rides, and TWO free bags of candy floss!

To , here's what you gotta do:
🌟1. Make sure you LIKE our page
🌟2. COMMENT the names of THREE friends on this post
🌟3. SHARE this post to your FB profile
🌟4. SEND us a screenshot of your share.
👀Don't forget to complete ALL FOUR STEPS to enter!👀

🎉We'll be announcing the lucky winner on our Facebook and Instagram accounts on 📅Tuesday 8th April 📅, so stay tuned! 🎉

⚠️Heads-Up: This contest is free to enter. The lucky winner will be tagged and we will ask you to message us to claim your prize. Don't fall for anyone posing as us and messaging you first. We'll NEVER ask for your bank details or ask you to click on suspicious links or fill out any form to claim your prize. ⚠️

🎠Feel free to enter on both Instagram and Facebook! 🎠 All entries will be pooled together and the winner will be picked randomly. You can enter as many of our contests as you want, but note that if you've won before, you can't win again for the next twelve months.

🎠Best of luck, and we can't wait to see you at the funfair soon! 🎠

29/03/2025

All are welcome at our funfair that's part of the Eid celebrations in Burgess Park. Don't forget you can get 25 ride tokens for the price of 20 when you book via the link in our profile!

Two-day with in Burgess Park to celebrate end of

The event is free and everyone is welcome regardless of faith

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/peckham/two-day-festival-with-funfair-in-burgess-park-to-celebrate-end-of-ramadan/

27/03/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Congratulations to Millies, you have won our Crystal Palace Park funfair competition. Please send us a message on Facebook to claim your prize.

Thank you very much to everyone who entered, and we hope to see you at the fair soon.

Don't forget to book your ride tokens in advance online at the link in bio to get 25 ride tokens for the price of 20!

OPENING DATES AND TIMES at CRYSTAL PALACE PARK
Friday 28th March 3pm - 9pm
Saturday 29th March 1pm - 9pm
Sunday 30th March 1pm - 9pm CELEBRATE EID WITH US
Monday 31st March 1pm - 9pm CELEBRATE EID WITH US
Tuesday 1st April CLOSED
Wednesday 2nd April CLOSED
Thursday 3rd April CLOSED
Friday 4th April 3pm - 9pm
Saturday 5th April 1pm - 9pm
Sunday 6th April 1pm - 9pm
Monday 7th April 1pm - 9pm
Tuesday 8th April 1pm - 9pm
Wednesday 9th April 1pm - 9pm
Thursday 10th April 1pm - 9pm
Friday 11th April 1pm - 9pm
Saturday 12th April 1pm - 9pm
Sunday 13th April 1pm - 9pm

14/03/2025

Check out the arcade in this video by former Beatle George Harrison. Have you ever won a prize on the fair for someone you fancied?

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