suck a cock-on-a-stick (Nottingham Goose Fair)

Member Name: pje

Product:	Nottingham Goose Fair
Date:	05/10/01 (137 review reads)
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Advantages: All the fun of the best fair in the world.

Disadvantages: It's only here for three days each year, it gets crowded and muddy, and the music is VERY LOUD!

Roll up, roll up, all the fun of the fair!

Big Wheels and rollercoasters, waltzers and dodgems,
ghost trains, merry-go-rounds and helter skelters.
Plus hundreds of ways to be shot up in the air,
whirled around until you're sick, and then dropped like a brick.

Goose Fair means childhood memories of bows and arrows, plastic swords and kiss me quick hats. (Are they still allowed?) Throwing darts at playing cards, and balls at the coconut shy. Being hopeless at hoop-la and hating those rotten cranes that pick up the prize only to drop it again. Losing all your change
in the penny arcades (a bit more that a penny these days!)
Your big brother shooting at cans on the rifle range,
and hook-a-duck stalls where you "Win A Prize Every Time"
(no goldfish these days, just gigantic cuddly toys. Ahhhh!)

I was never keen on those spectacular rides. The ghost train
was scary enough for me one year - I had nothing to hold on to,
and nearly fell out when it went round a sharp bend!

And why do people drive dodgem cars round in a circle?
Turn it round, drive the other way and watch 'em all scatter!
No-one's ever been in a dodgem car with me more than once...


Nottingham's Goose Fair dates back to 1284, and is probably
the largest travelling fair in Europe. Opening on the first Thursday in October each year, it was originally held in the Old Market Square, but in 1928 it was relocated to it's current site on the Forest Recreation Ground, about a mile north of the city centre. There are hundreds of rides, games and food stalls, but no geese these days, even though Christmas is coming and they must be getting fat!

You can stuff your gob full of chips and burgers, doughnuts,
and hot-dogs, pies and mushy peas. Have candy floss melting
in your mouth (or shrinking in a bag) and brandy snap, nougat and toffee apples (say goodbye to your te
eth!)

You can even walk round sucking a cock-on-a-stick...
It's a chicken-shaped lollipop luv, honest!
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Opening times:
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11:00 to 23:30 Friday 5th October 2001
11:00 to 23:30 Saturday 6th October 2001

Wanna park nearby? Forget it!
Catch a bus from the Old Market Square instead.
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The official Goose Fair website is at:

http://www.nottinghamgoosefair.co.uk/
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