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Sideshow area at the Royal National Show, Brisbane

Premier's Department, State Public Relations Bureau, Photographic Unit1972-01-01/1972-12-31

Queensland State Archives

Queensland State Archives
Runcorn, Australia

Sideshow Alley is now famous for rides, games and entertainment but, at the very first show in 1876 there was no Sideshow Alley, just an individual known as the ‘Lightning Calculator’ whose talent with numbers amazed the EKKA crowds.

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