[News] Do you go the funfair?

[The Clamp]

My Dad won a budgie at Yateley fair.

We called it Bluey.

It dropped off it’s perch dead during Live Aid.

There was a thing at fairs many years ago we used to go to;

An old banger of a car in the field. You’d buy a raffle ticket. The winner got handed a sledge hammer and got first go at smashing the car up. They got 2 mins. After that, you paid 20p to get a go bashing the car for 2 mins.

There was also the stall where you threw balls at China plates to smash them.

 

[The Clamp]

I did actually end up seeing a bird from the fairground for a while. She worked on the Waltzer.

It didn’t work out in the end. Everything had to revolve around her.

 

[Man of Harveys]

My Dad won a budgie at Yateley fair.

We called it Bluey.

It dropped off its perch dead during Live Aid.

So sad. Another One Bites The Dust.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

My Dad won a budgie at Yateley fair.

We called it Bluey.

It dropped off it’s perch dead during Live Aid.

There was a thing at fairs many years ago we used to go to;

An old banger of a car in the field. You’d buy a raffle ticket. The winner got handed a sledge hammer and got first go at smashing the car up. They got 2 mins. After that, you paid 20p to get a go bashing the car for 2 mins.

There was also the stall where you threw balls at China plates to smash them.

That reminds me. When I was an Uni in the 90s the fun fair came to town and I won a Goldfish on some rip off game or another. Naturally, Without a tank in my student digs, I filled up my lunch box with water which it seemingly swam around in happy before I went out.

When I came back, the fish had somehow escaped the box but I saw something thrashing about in my ash tray.which was brim full of discarded cigarette butts. I quickly put it back in the water where it swam about albeit with much less gusto than previously and with a load of burnt tobacco in the water.

Sadly "Fagash" as the goldfish became known passed away 24 hours later presumably due to it's aversion to Marlboro lights. I gave up owning fish until 20 years later after my son's badgered me into it where curiously junior the fish also committed suicide on Day 1 where he jumped out this time onto a Delia Smith cookbook.

I have a spare fish tank in my garage if anyone wants it.

 

[The Clamp]

That reminds me. When I was an Uni in the 90s the fun fair came to town and I won a Goldfish on some rip off game or another. Naturally, Without a tank in my student digs, I filled up my lunch box with water which it seemingly swam around in happy before I went out.

When I came back, the fish had somehow escaped the box but I saw something thrashing about in my ash tray.which was brim full of discarded cigarette butts. I quickly put it back in the water where it swam about albeit with much less gusto than previously and with a load of burnt tobacco in the water.

Sadly "Fagash" as the goldfish became known passed away 24 hours later presumably due to it's aversion to Marlboro lights. I gave up owning fish until 20 years later after my son's badgered me into it where curiously junior the fish also committed suicide on Day 1 where he jumped out this time onto a Delia Smith cookbook.

I have a spare fish tank in my garage if anyone wants it.

No way to go. RIP Fagash!

I tried to keep fish a few years ago. Juts a black moor and a bulge eyed goldfish.

It’s not as easy as I remember it. The kit you need.

They died a few weeks later. I threw the tank in the back garden and forgot all about them.

Came across the tank yesterday as it happens. It’s was upside down and had some very strange new world in there. All sorts of creatures and thick roots had twirled around in there.

I pulled it off the ground and a perfectly rectangular box of life was left behind. Pretty revolting though.
Mainly slugs and other grim invertebrate things with eyes on stalks.

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

No, neigh, never!

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Used to frequent the annual Bensons Fair that would plot up on Fairfield Rec in Burgess Hill.

Opening night was named “Guinea Pig” with all rides half price. The opener used to include scores being settled between the travellers from the fair and the regular “static travellers” . Get a two litre bottle of cider for £2.49 kick back and watch the show

 

[lawros left foot]

I grew up in Ashington, and Harris fair had their winter yard there. My Dad was good mates with the brothers, there was about 6 of them.
Lovely people, my sisters and I used to get free goes on all the rides.
I first drove a car in their yard when I was about 8, and Teddy Harris got a stripped down VW Beetle for his 11th birthday

My best ever Christmas memory from when I was a kid was 4 of the brothers and their 2 sisters coming to our house on Christmas day for dinner. Big old log fire in the sitting room 2 of the brothers with guitars and all of us sitting round singing I don’t think the telly went on at all that Christmas Day.

 

[TomandJerry]

Fond memories of the Burgess Hill fair

 

[Lindfield by the Pond]

...scream if you wanna go faster...

Keep your arms and legs in the car at all times…..

 

[METALMICKY]

Traumatised ever since a school mate on the Waltzer vomited all over my brand new Harrington jacket

 

[amexer]

My Father told me he remembers seeing a bearded lady at Fun Fair and also a ring where people could challenge the resident boxer

 

[Bry Nylon]

My Dad won a budgie at Yateley fair.

We called it Bluey.

It dropped off it’s perch dead during Live Aid.

A budgie with a sense of irony. Who knew?

Fly high, Bluey. Fly high

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

When I read the thread title my mind instantly went to this:

One of the finest comedy series ever imo and grossly underrated

 

[alanfp]

Traumatised ever since a school mate on the Waltzer vomited all over my brand new Harrington jacket

Reminds me of Mike Harding's recollection of a family day out at Blackpool at the funfair...

"Then they bought us fish and chips and ginger ale and winkles and a giant humbug, shrimps and some more candy floss, and some egg and chips and some more ginger beer and our Willy went pale.
Then he went on the roundabouts. He didn't half upset a lot of people, our Willy.
My Mam said he had a weak stomach. Our Willy said he wor chucking it as far as he could."

 

[BN9 BHA]

I love them, the smells and sounds remind me of my childhood. In the late 60s and early 70s the funfair coming to Beach Green in Lancing was one of the highlights of the year. You didn't worry about the safety, although someone was killed one year.

I heard about someone getting killed one year, I’m not sure if I read about it or someone over that way told me a story about a big mob of locals went down to attack the fairground workers the next time it turned up in Lancing.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

Keep seated at all times otherwise you will die. Shabba