Description: Members of Nottingham City Council outside Bostock and Wombell's Menagerie. Showing: front row, left to right: T Ward, Sir Albert Ball, R Fleeman, C J Mee (below), Sir Albert Atkey (Sheriff); second row, left to right: unknown, R Fitzhugh, W Ward, unknown, S Cook, J H Freckingham, Deputy Chief Constable T Clarke, unknown; F Birkett (Manager for Bostock), G C A Austin (Clerk of the Markets), J A H Green (Town Clerk) and Sir John T McCraith. The Goose Fair was originally held in Nottingham for 8 days of October, reduced to five days in 1876. For centuries, Goose Fair was held in the heart of the city on the Market Place in front of the Exchange. It gradually spread to other streets in the vicinity and, with the growth of traffic, there were complaints about congestion and disruption in the city. Eventually, the Goose Fair is held on the Forest Recreation Ground, about a mile north of the Old Market Square.