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Holcot Car Boot & Farmers' Market (Northants)

Description: Northants / East Midlands

Newest Review: ... needed out of the boot (or trunk for those on the other side of the Atlantic) of their cars. Hence boot fairs or boot sales. Over time the role of the physical car boot reduced as people placed their goods on tables - usually rather flimsy ones designed for pasting wallpaper, some of which collapse with devastating but often amusing consequences when laden with the accumulated tat of a ... more

... lifetime's hoarding. Many people became semi-professional booters, buying new goods to trade, typically things like electrical batteries, stationery and cheap new clothes. Boot fairs became at times a sort of twilight zone of stolen goods and tax evasion with ...more

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Holcot Car Boot & Farmers' Market (Northants): A very enjoyable approach to recycling (1299 words)
by - written on 01/07/09 (Very useful, 272 readings)
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Boot sales or boot fairs have been a popular weekend activity across Britain for as long as I can remember. Whilst in times past going to church was the most popular Sunday activity, I suspect that it's fallen behind getting up much too early to pick over the remnants of the lives of other people in a muddy field in the half-light. These days with most people a little more cost conscious than they used to be, boot fairs are getting ever more popular. My husband and I used to be fervent boot fair attendees when we lived in Suffolk. On Sunday mornings we'd get up at 6 am, drive through the dark to the village of Woolpit and search for bargains. In those days we ... Read the complete review

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