Early film footage of fun fair workers and revelers at Devils Dyke on the South Downs taken by pioneer James Williamson in around 1896 At a fair at Devils Dyke boys scrap beside wooden swing boats Others wearing dark suits watch chains and caps stretch up to push one of the swing boats The boys are aware of the camera which films them from a fixed position A couple swing sticks in the air playing up to the camera while the boys work At the merrygoround two women stand in the foreground They wear shirts with full pleated sleeves and boaters Other visitors to the fair pass by the camera including a man with a pipe and a woman with a wide cloak Young visitors ride on a track the South Downs in view behind They cycle turning a wheel in front of them An opentop carriage rides away from the camera and back again along a switchback railway driven by a worker who jumps on and off
