The continuity remains remarkable and a visit to a great fair to-day such as Newcastle Town Moor Festival will see shows whose object is simply to satisfy human curiosity. I without any loss of attraction. The setting up of a fairground is thus a matter of meticulous planning. Since rides and stalls may come from widely dispersed locations at different speeds via different routes and the setting out Of the fair is a complex and highly skilled job. The showman's life remains rooted in tradition and certainly the pattern of work is unusual by conventional standards.
Work is carried out at week-ends and far into the night and early morning.
Journeys can begin in the middle of the night and lorries and trucks travel through early mists across empty landscapes making for distant and sleeping towns in order to build up the next fair. Once built, a fair is a technological marvel but also a human village, and upon reaching a new town friends not seen since the year before can be greeted stories swapped and links reforged and news exchanged. From the first moment therefore. As much a social gathering as a business enterprise, and it is this vitality which lies behind the search for new and more exotic rides and shows with which to entertain the public, and which continues to sustain the fairground as a place of entertainment for young and old. Bill Edwards Holds The Copyright For This Entire Site.