Circus two

The circus itself. An operation with a stronger branding than I was expecting with blue trim to the tent and a blue livery for more or less all the rather impressive trailers, generators, tractor units and such like. One tractor unit had a rather impressive towing contraption on the front - maybe something to do with hauling tents up. Caravans for the artistes being the only exemptions.

With tents playing to my fascination with twine and rope mentioned at reference 1. Apart from that and from nostalgia for my school days when I used to go camping with tents, I think some of my interest in tents, shared with sailing ships, is that the workings of a tent are all on view. One has the tent cloth, the poles, the pegs and the ropes all worked into a contraption which can be put up, lived in (or visited at a flower or vegetable show) and taken down again, a contraption in which one can see all the workings, where everything has its place and role. Unlike most modern buildings, even many of those billed as functional. Steam engines come close.

And Fantasia have moved into the 21st century to the extent of their being plugged into the ticketing operation at reference 2 - an operation which appears to be mainly into popular music up and down the country.

I associate to the 1930's novel about the circus life from Gollancz, picked up some years ago now in the Wetherspoon's library at Tooting, which explained, in the margins of a tale about a chap who was a wow with circus horses and prospered, that circus people were the top of the heap when it came to travellers. Above fair ground people, above tinkers and well above people who just travelled.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/trolley-54.html.

Reference 2: http://www.ticketline.co.uk/.