Who invented the Wall of Death?
The Original Wall of Death was one of the early walls built by Orton and Spooner at Burton on Trent – they were, of course, famous manufacturers of fairground rides of all types but only made Walls of Death for a short period, although, according to records held at The National Fairground Archive, they actually made fourteen in total. The Wall of Death had been adopted in it’s early years by two great showmen, Billy Butlin and Pat Collins. Butlin was rumoured to have had as many as ten built up along the sea front at Skegness for training riders before they went into his holiday camps and other enterprises.
