Scarborough Fair Collection & Vintage Transport Museum

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Founded by Graham Atkinson in the 1980's, The Scarborough Fair Collection has grown into a world-famous celebration of Britain’s heritage, showcasing vintage fairground rides, steam engines, mechanical organs and classic vehicles for future generations.

A busy dance floor, incredible live music, and happy faces everywhere – What more could you wish for?A massive thank you...
05/06/2026

A busy dance floor, incredible live music, and happy faces everywhere – What more could you wish for?

A massive thank you to everyone who consistently joins us for our dances, week after week. Your energy makes these days truly special!

We're really hoping this encourages some new faces to grab their dance shoes and come share the fun with us! 🎶🕺

Following on from our last post, just a quick reminder about our Midsummer Dance Special on June 27th!A jam packed speci...
04/06/2026

Following on from our last post, just a quick reminder about our Midsummer Dance Special on June 27th!

A jam packed special, along side a raffle for Martin House Charity are all to be expected.

Oh and we can’t forget our celebrations for our dedicated volunteer Graham Turner’s birthday and 20th year of volunteering.

Event will run from 1:15 PM to 4:00 PM. The museum will be open as usual from 10:00 AM, with last entries at 3:00 PM.

Standard admission fees apply.

Hope you’re looking forward to it as much as we are!!!!

A few words about a person who has a double celebration this summer. He is well known to regular visitors to the museum ...
03/06/2026

A few words about a person who has a double celebration this summer. He is well known to regular visitors to the museum and a good friend to all who work or are volunteers in it.
I’m talking about Graham Turner or GT for short, who later this month is eighty years young and it is also twenty years this summer since his first visit to what is now the Scarborough Fair Collection & Vintage Transport Museum.
Around that time Graham Atkinson the owner of the Flower of May Holiday Park had purchased a Wurlitzer Organ with all its pipes and bits and pieces to put in his new ballroom at his new museum (this is the Wurlitzer on the stage in the ballroom).
Back in 2006 Graham Turner was a sixty year old electrical engineer and a partner of a small electrical company at Scarborough. A friend of GT’s had the task of installing the Wurlitzer and putting it all together and he knew GT was the ideal person to help him to wire and ‘pipe’ it up.
It was a major task which took months to complete. This was partly because Graham along with only a couple of other people helping him could only give their time at weekends.
Graham Atkinson’s collection was quickly growing with a view to one day opening it to the public as a working museum and GT had well and truly caught the nostalgia bug. He continued to visit the museum in his own time after 2006 to finish the Wurlitzer and found it was a never ending job in the museum with other exhibits being added to it all the time and so he has kept up with his volunteering visits to the museum ever since.
As the years went by Graham began to give up more of his free time and twenty years later he is still not finished fixing things. he always had an interest in old organs which lead to him eventually becoming first the Treasurer, then the Secretary and finally the Chairman of the Scarborough Electronic Organ Society

As I have already mentioned when GT first visited Graham Atkinson’s collection in 2006 there were plans to open this ever growing collection and two years later in 2008 the Scarborough Fair Collection was officially open to the public.
I first walked into the museum in the spring of 2015 and just like all the other volunteers who have been and gone over the years I had one thing in common with them all, it was Graham Turner who showed me the ropes.
You will see from the photos there is one of Graham in a tight part of the organ chamber and another of him in the middle of winter concentrating when making dozens of thin leather gaskets and other parts for the Wurlitzer. The Wurlitzer in bits and then one of a proud Graham when he had finished the job. This was a job that took all winter even though there were two people doing it. The three shady looking characters are Clive on the right who sadly passed away, Graham in the middle and yours truly (Keith) on the left. Of course it wasn’t all work and we nearly had to lift GT out of that Sinclair C5.
Lastly we see a happy Graham in the museum and I am sure that later this month everybody at the SFC&VTM as well as visitors to the museum will be wishing him a very Happy Birthday and hope he enjoys his special day with lots more like it to come.

Rev up your engines, folks! 🚗💨 The Claymills Classic Car Club have arrived, bringing their stunning display of vintage v...
27/05/2026

Rev up your engines, folks! 🚗💨

The Claymills Classic Car Club have arrived, bringing their stunning display of vintage vehicles to the museum today!

Don't miss your chance to see these beautiful cars up close!

Get ready to mark your calendars! The Scarborough Fair Collection is thrilled to announce our Midsummer Dance special, h...
04/05/2026

Get ready to mark your calendars! The Scarborough Fair Collection is thrilled to announce our Midsummer Dance special, happening on June 27th!

Here's an insight to what you can look forward to:

- A raffle supporting the Martin House Charity
- Elegant ballroom and sequence dancing

The special event will run from 1:15 PM to 4:00 PM. The museum will be open as usual from 10:00 AM, with last entries at 3:00 PM.

Standard admission fees apply.

We can't wait to see you there!!!!

We’ve got some lovely vintage visitors with us at the museum today!!!!ps. we’re taking about the cars
30/04/2026

We’ve got some lovely vintage visitors with us at the museum today!!!!

ps. we’re taking about the cars

30/04/2026

Just a final reminder of our Strictly Ballroom Dance this saturday

Our resident organist Michael Carr will be playing 100% Ballroom music on our Mighty Wurlitzer

Hope to see you there!!

Only 6 more days to go untill our Strictly Ballroom Dance, we hope to see you all there !!!The museum opens usual time a...
26/04/2026

Only 6 more days to go untill our Strictly Ballroom Dance, we hope to see you all there !!!

The museum opens usual time at 10.00am, but our special event will commence from 1.15pm - 4.00pm

Normal Admissions Apply

Take a peek at our dates for this seasons specials!We hope everyone enjoyed our Easter Bonnet Dance! For those who could...
25/04/2026

Take a peek at our dates for this seasons specials!

We hope everyone enjoyed our Easter Bonnet Dance! For those who couldn't make it, don't worry – we have many more special events planned throughout the year.

Our next special event is the Strictly Ballroom Dance on May 2nd, running from 1:15 PM to 4:00 PM (normal admission rates apply).

Did someone forget to put the handbrake on 😅
24/04/2026

Did someone forget to put the handbrake on 😅

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Flower Of May Holiday Park
Scarborough
YO113NU

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01723 586698

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