I know this conversation is an old one but I just came across it while trying to get a photograph of the gallopers at Pinner Fair. I don't know when you were a child but I know that in the 1970s Pinner Fair had a very odd set of gallopers like nothing I've seen before or since.
The ride consisted of a fixed circular platform which undulated in big waves, on top of which was a sort of jointed skin of wooden planks attached to a central axis. When the ride was powered up the fixed waves stayed where they were but the flexible wooden skin circled around and undulated down and up over the waves underneath it. The horses were fastened to the jointed wooden skin so that they too went up and down as it rattled over the fixed waves. The whole thing went *extremely* fast - I recall ending up lying sideways with my legs round the body of one horse and my arms round the neck of the one next inside it, because centrifugal force was trying to throw me off in the other direction.
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Date: July 28th, 2016 09:26 am (UTC)The ride consisted of a fixed circular platform which undulated in big waves, on top of which was a sort of jointed skin of wooden planks attached to a central axis. When the ride was powered up the fixed waves stayed where they were but the flexible wooden skin circled around and undulated down and up over the waves underneath it. The horses were fastened to the jointed wooden skin so that they too went up and down as it rattled over the fixed waves. The whole thing went *extremely* fast - I recall ending up lying sideways with my legs round the body of one horse and my arms round the neck of the one next inside it, because centrifugal force was trying to throw me off in the other direction.