Neville Rainsley was a model-maker working in the 1920s in Oxford. He created a series of miniature fairground models based on contemporary rides at Oxford's famous St Giles' Fair.

Each family of fairground travellers (or showmen as they call themselves) designed and maintained its own rides. Here the painted motifs chosen by Rainsley contain many references to the then British Empire, including animals of the African
Plains, and headgear of the Indian subcontinent.

A tour de force by model-maker Neville Rainsley - the tiny model of an organ cart, part of another model. Such an organ cart played in the streets of Oxford until the 1980s.