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Goose Fair, Market Place 1910
Image ref
NTGM001503
Credit
Nottingham City Council
photographer
Henson and Co.
ImageDate
1910
Location
Market Place
Town
Nottingham
About this image
North-East aspect, looking towards Long Row from South Parade, showing the Helter-skelter, which tells you to 'Slip the slip to cure the pip'! ( if you had or had 'taken the pip', it meant that you were in a huff or unhappily sulking). The Goose Fair was originally held in Nottingham's Market Place for 8 days of October, reduced to five days in 1876. The name comes from the hundreds of geese which were at one time driven from Lincolnshire and Norfolk to be sold in Nottingham. Goose Fair was first mentioned in the Nottingham Borough Records of 1541, though it was probably in existence much earlier than this. It gradually became so large that it spread to other streets in the vicinity and, with the growth of traffic, there were complaints about congestion and disruption in the city. The Fair was eventually moved to Forest Recreation Ground, about a mile north of the Old Market Square.
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