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Why Hull Fair?

by keef 11 months ago
Last updated 9 months ago.

Is it time for Hull to dump Hull fair? I think so, Lets face it its expensive, shabby, Noisy, smelly, it attracts the local "gang thugs" its a logistical nightmare for the police, ambulance services etc. It causes traffic chaos not just for the poor residents but for all road users, the fair fleeces the local economy out of millions of pounds. And the carbon footprint must be enormous. Can the people of Hull afford this annual nightmare?

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China Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Hull Fair is a tradition. Thugs will turn up wherever there are crowds but should we allow ourselves to be dictated to by them? I don’t want to sound unsympathetic but as far as the residents are concerned they surely knew when they moved to that area that Hull Fair does come round once a year!
keef Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I can sort of agree with your response but I dont buy the "tradition" thing, yea we all end up going there every year but don’t we all regret the expense, the hassle, the expensive junk plastic trinkets, the stupid people, overcrowded buses, and the overzealous traffic wardens?
theagitator Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Yes Keef, much the same as the two market days. Plenty of thugs and crooks present then as well. But at least at the market you can get some half decent gear, whereas the fair is just a rip off. As an aside, do the stallholders at the fair pay tax on their ill gotten gains or is it as I suspect all cash in the pocket.Perhaps HMRC could investigate this year.
Cottalady Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Goodness me…did you not enjoy the fair as a child? I went back after a 35 year absence last year and altho a lot had changed, the atmosphere, mainly people really enjoying themselves, remained the same. perhaps i am being naive and don’t realise that the week is a headache for the police but it would be a very sad state of affairs if the tradition ended wouldn’t it?
radiator4612 Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

The fair lasts for 1 week. The large patch of ugly concrete wasteland it sits on is there all year, so on balance I agree…move it or ditch it and open up some development land to bring some money into this part of the city.
medsec Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I certainly wouldn’t want to see it ditched as it’s quite an impressive spectacle. However, as I live fairly nearby I have to say it creates havoc with traffic and parking problems. This has got worse over the years as more and more people use cars rather than buses to get there. Move it to the outskirts and use the park and ride facilities.
Chromosome23 Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I don’t know that end of the town very well, but isn’t the fairground used as a car park during the rest of the year?
radiator4612 Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Well…part of it is used as a ‘car park’, though in my view there is a difference between a car park and a crumbling concrete no-mans land on which cars happen to park.

A few million on a new rail halt serving the stadium should reduce the need for a car park, although I’m aware of how attached Hullensians can be to their dear old polluting bangers and surface car-park WWII bomb sites.
Chromosome23 Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

So if the fairground was developed and built upon, then the cars which currently park there would be parking elsewhere in the nearby vicinity, thereby creating Hull Fair like parking conditions for the whole year.

I don’t think that a rail halt for the KC is a very good idea to be honest. It’s a matter of minutes by rail from Paragon, and I can’t see that it would persuade anyone to leave their car at home.
radiator4612 Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Yes but that’s an all too typical Hull mentality. It’s not going to persuade people to leave their cars at home so we wont bother.

If there is no where to park, people will have to leave there cars at home. I’m sick of the way everything has to accomodate cars. Try finding an ugly surface car park in Antwerp, Hamburg or Brussels. You won’t.
Chromosome23 Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Don’t get me wrong, I dislike the car culture myself, it’s just that I can’t see how any saving in car journeys could be made by building a halt at the KC. Anyone who already travels to the KC by rail has only a ten minute or so walk from Paragon as it is.
MikeCovell Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Hull Fair is a part of Hull’s culture and history. Which other local town can boast they have Europes largest travelling fair visit every year?

Back in 1991 Hutton Press released "Hull Fair" by Stephen Smith and Kevin Scrivens. The book charts the fairs history and features some great photos and fantastic aerial shots.

Hull Fair has had many locations over the years from it’s current to the Corporation Fields, Market Place, Humber Street, Nelson Street, Wellington Street, Queen Street, and at one poing just off Castle Street.

That said, if the current site is unsuitable, why not just move it?
barrow Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I loved it when a kid,and my grandkids love it now.But have to agree that it is spoilt by gangs of yobs.Also many stalls do not have prices on and the hook a duck was £2.Don’t get ripped off though.One example is the large teddy van where you have to get 21 to win.The even numbers are on the top of the ones in the chaps hand,and the odd ones are at the bottom.You do not win.The chap lets you win when HE wants a winner and slips out a ticket from the bottom of the pile.Its a con.
SkyWalker Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Hull Fair is the envy of people from far and wide. It is the local gangs of chavs that bring it down, not the fair or the people who run it.
keef Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I Just think its time for Hull to move on, we don’t have to follow tradition, especially when the cost of going is so high, along with the unpleasant members of our community spoiling the event further. As for the car park, it just needs a good tarmac surface for all the football/rugby and concert fans, not the current "dust bowl" we have. Network rail could invest some money in a new train stop alongside the stadium to reduce car use and add another method of getting to the stadium to reduce car use.
SkyWalker Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

They should move it out of Hull and onto a field out of town. It must be hell for the locals living nearby.
MikeCovell Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Don’t they get some sort of tax reduction for the period that the fair is in Hull though?
China Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

http://www.nfa.dept.shef.ac.uk/history/charter/hull.html

I think it’s safe to say that the residents can’t have been taken by surprise by the arrival of fair. It’s happened enough times for goodness sake!
fatpuss Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Your having a SkyLark. Love it or hate it but dont give it away. Like move it onto a field out of town, to Skipsea so the closet chav wont have so far to go. Get your own fair.
gecko2 Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Maybe Hull Fair should be run by people from Hull.
theagitator Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Good Idea. At least that way the money ripped off from the victims would stay in Hull. But there is still the problem of the tax mans’ share.
SkyWalker Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

We have Bridlington fair.

But Hull is the best.
mii Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

isuppose uts some where to go but wherever you go these days they always throw a fairground in with the entertainment ie lord mayors parade .every event that i have been to in the past year there has been a fair ground so after seeing themall year round its no big deal when hull fair comes my opinion is that the council should stop all the other little fairs and just stick to hull fair
fatpuss Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

SkyWalker, "we have a Bridlington fair But Hull is the best"

That is because you dont like the wessies and the chavs coming to Brid to spend their money.
smky57 Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I love Hull Fair, but havent been for the last couple of years now my children have grown up and flown the nest, and it is tradition, its been here for years.
Willow Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Hull Fairs carbon foot print must be huge. Hopefully with the massive rise in the price of oil the fair will outprice itself and die.
fatpuss Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Doom and gloom you have had Hull Fair, dont deprive future generations of the pleasure of the lights the smell the atmosphere.

Turn the lights out on Buckinham Palace and all the other places the museums the pubs the nightclubs the factories that make tobbacco and bikes and cars etc etc ect.
SkyWalker Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Have a go at Blackpool, their ‘Carbon Footprint’ must be huge.

Not that I care. Farting cows screw with the environment more than pikeys with big wheels.
SkyWalker Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Kids like Hull Fair.

Thats all that matters.
ChiefDragon Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I haven’t been to the fair for years but I would not deprive the kids of the spectacle that is Hull fair. To see the fair through younger eyes is wonderful, eyes the size of saucers and the expectation that they have of the pleasures to come,I can still remember that feeling as you walk up to Walton Street,the smells,the candy floss, the rides and yes even the tatty toys,one of which I still have and she sits at the top of my Christmas tree year on year. As for the residents I agree with China, they knew the fair was there before they moved in and has been for hundreds of years,so lets leave it where it is, after all its only seven days out of 365.
MikeCovell Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I love taking the kids, as I too loved being taken by my parents. The lights, smell and atmosphere of the place is electric. Seeing father Christmas sat in the cold months before Christmas, the man on the chair outside the church, telling us were all doomed. The smell of the roasted chestnuts, and the slippery floor around Bob Carvers!
Red-Dragon Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

keef says it attracts the local "gang thugs"

True enough and it is a nightmare for the emergency services, but rather than bin the fair, would it not be better for the Police to have the handcuffs removed and to be given some real powers to deter the idiots from the fairground? You see, if there were some kind of deterrent or if kids respected things provided for their entertainment, then this would not be a problem.
medsec Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Saying that the residents knew about the fair before they moved in is a bit unfair (if you pardon the expression!). As I said before, we live fairly nearby, but the problems have grown over the years. People used to to walk or come on the bus but now many, many more use their cars. The result is that the streets in the immediate vicinity of the fair are designated as residents’ parking BUT they have to pay for a parking permit. There is far more trouble now and it’s much, much noisier than it used to be with every ride having a sound system loud enough to be heard on the moon!
BobCarter Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Sadly, if we abandoned events which attracted people who were there for reasons other than enjoying the event, than we would have to cancel the lot! I know some on Anlaby road who dread because of the parking nightmare it can become.West park itself becomes a Car Park,literally. Whatever happened to walking there? I have fond memories of Hull Fair and it was usually enjoyed by us with little or no money spent – we didn’t have any! Yes, there are those out to get your money, by fair (no puns intended) means or foul. I was dissolutioned when I discovered that the bloke hanging around the giant cuddly toy stall hadn’t actually won it, he was paid to hang around there with it! Getting those hoops over those blocks with rolex watches on was nigh on impossible – I swear they didn’t fit over. And as for those tin cans you have to knock over with a ball that’s lighter than a marshmallow – I’m sure they were filled with lead. We keep on going though, and personally, I hope the Hull Fair does too despite all its problems and faults.
barrow Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

The giant cuddly bear stall is a con,I said above that you have to get 21 with three tickets.But the even number ones are on top of the pile in his hand,and the odd ones are on the bottom.You buy 3,and its 3 even numbers off the top.So you buy another 3,and again its 3 even numbers.It is only when they have sold enough tickets that an odd number from the bottom of the pile is sliped in,and you have a winner.This stall is at a lot of local fairs.On the can stall,you have to hit all the cans OFF the shelf,not just knock them down.As the shelf slopes upwards,this can not be done. In the small grab a teddy machine,the grab can be preset to only grab say every tenth time.There are many other cons,but also many mugs!
Lazarus Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Thank you Professor Barrow. I once went up to a couple of coppers one night at the fair and asked if they thought the games were fixed. One of them looked down upon me and replied: "Well dur!"
BobCarter Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

It’s really not fair! I’m already a cynical old so-and-so. At least the hook-a-duck can’t be fixed,surely?! We took home dozens of chalk ornaments from here as kids and thought it was great – it never occurred to us that they were worth less than we paid per go! Mind you,they came in handy for chalking on the pavements and walls…
barrow Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Last year,Hull Trading officers checked one hook a duck stall which said "hook a duck with a red sticker on the bottom to win a big prize"They checked all the ducks and found none had.The prizes given away cost 20p from a wholesaler in Bradford, I am the mug for paying to see the joy on my grandkids faces when they win a 20p teddy that costs me £2.But I remember as a young kid,the roundabout with the cars and busses on the bottom deck and the spaceships on the upper deck.That ride is over 50 years old,and still gives young kids a lot of pleasure.But where have the Shamrocks gone,and the moterbike ride blasting out "Rocking Goose".What other rides do people remember?
BobCarter Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

That’s all I needed, Barrow – the hook-a-duck is fixed! I reckon those fortune-tellers saw us coming! Did you ever see the cartoon of the fortune-teller’s tent with a sign hanging on it, ‘Closed due to unforseen circumstances’. Can you remember George the ‘giant’ – would be regarded as a freak show now, and rightly so. I seem to remember some strange collection of pickled animals with twheads, six legs etc, it was gruesome. The one ride I do remember was the Caterpillar – not sure if it’s still there now. I took the attached photo of one of the stall-holders enjoying a snack.
HarryDownes Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

In my early teens,I remember going to Hull Fair and watching fire eaters,sword swallowers and Indian Fakirs lying on a bed of nails.Also death defying acts on motorcycles on the Wall of Death. Another big crowd puller was the Freak Shows which billed the smallest,tallest,fattest people in the world or badly deformed humans or animals. I can recall paying 2 bob to see the smallest woman in the world. When I joined the queue we were told to walk in single file and keep walking without stopping. As we filed past the poor woman she shouted, "Okay you have seen enough, who do you think your staring at!!"," Go on ,clear off!!" plus a few swear words. We did as we were told and moved on quickly.

Once I was outside I felt saddened and totally ashamed of myself. Some years later Freak Shows were banned, putting an end to to the exploitation and in most cases forced slavery of these unfortunate people and animals
HarryDownes Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

The smallest woman
BobCarter Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Amazing photos, HarryDownes. Yes,looking back, it was shameful to gawp at these people and animals for so-called ‘entertainment’. We criticise the PC world of today but I think good riddance to these sorts of exhibitions, in the worst possible taste.
China Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

but the problems have grown over the years.

I can understand how annoying it must be, however I moved into this house nearly 19 years ago and then we had hardly any aeroplanes going over. Now there are many more and at times seem as though their pilots are taking the term ‘landing light’ seriously!

Doubt I’ll be able to have Humberside airport shut down though.
MikeCovell Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I remember seeing George The Giant and was chatting to my father about Fair’s History recently, I also remember seeing a two headed sheep!
BobCarter Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I’m sure there was the body of a Siamese Twin – I hope I’m wrong – but it was enough to give a kid nightmares in a great jar of some sort of solution. You confirmed the tw-headed sheep,MikeCovell, can you recall this? It was gross and, when you think about it now, deeply offensive.
MikeCovell Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I have seen the two headed sheep on numerous occasions. The first being at Hull fair, and only a few years back in a large truck during one of the East Park events. There were numerous examples often in jars of formaldehyde.

I seem to recall shrunken heads and animals with extra legs too.

There is an exhibition at Blackpool on the Promenade called "Ripley’s – Believe it or not". The museum is a collection of the strange and unusual and contains pretty much the same unusal oddities.

Roll up and see em for yourself! http://www.ripleys.com/
MikeCovell Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Better still is this website devoted to nothing but 2 headed animals!

HarryDownes Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

The Rubber Man was also popular at the fair.He made a fortune travelling round the world with his amazing act!
BobCarter Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

After seeing this lot I’m beginning to agree with Keef, maybe Hull Fair has had it’s day! Kids today are sometimes criticised for watching a lot of telly etc but I can’t believe it could be worse than gawping at two-headed sheep and aSiamese pickled foetus.
Colombo Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

My Dad used to box in Hughes’ Boxing Booth in his younger days.
barrow Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Dont forget the flee circus which had a flee pulling a chariot,one on the highwire,and one is a ballet dress.The sign on the door offered to pay three old p for "fat flees"The boxing ring was a good laugh.The fair boxes used to let the volunteer, who was usually drunk, go two rounds,yet in the third,knock him out. Think today is that young kids get hurled upside down backwards on many rides,and then just walk away as if nothing had happened.I got wobbly legs just going on the cakewalk!
Lazarus Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Didn’t Spike Milligan or the Goon Show do something with fleas? Just a bit out of my era.
BobCarter Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Here’s Gypsy R…. waiting for her ‘other half’! Taken last year.
Colombo Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

She must be getting on. She was old when I was a lad.
BobCarter Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Must be all those cups of Rosy Lee, Colombo! I calculate she must be at least 110 years old..and, looking into my Crystal Ball, I’ll bet she’s still there in another 110 years!
keef Submitted 11 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

And no doubt a multi millionaire as a result from a life of zero tax !!
BobCarter Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Even the ride owners expect troublemakers going by this sign which includes ‘No Psychos’!
YourMailWill Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

You could put that in the ‘silly signs’ thread as well – as if a real Psycho is going to see the sign and think "Oh I’d best not, after all, rules is rules" lol!
HarryDownes Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

My father told me many years ago that a Hamburgher stall was closed down at Hull Fair because the owner was making his hamburghers with Kit-e-Kat. Empty tins of Kit-e-Kat were discovered at the back of the owners stall and the matter was reported to the Police and apparently the Hull Daily Mail covered the story in one of their editions
Roberto Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Queen Victoria died and the whole nation had to come to terms with it. Hull fair is not really full of the traditional aspects any more. There are no sights that have not been seen before, In fact it is more or less identical each year.

Hull fair should be moved to a more suitable location and maybe the amount of yobbo’s will reduce due to the extra effort required to get there. The large car park at the Humber Bridge could be a good substitute for Walton street.
Colombo Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

South of Clive Sullivan Way, beyond MAKRO, there is loads of space. The park and ride terminus is adjacent, and there’s even a railway line where a temporary station could be built.
BobCarter Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

YourMailWill – Have added it to ‘Silly Signs’ post.
Colombo Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Bob: I wish I visited this post first. I thought for minute that I was in a time warp.
BobCarter Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Doesn’t seem to be much activity on YourMail at the moment, Colombo, if that’s what you mean? I put it all down to the phases of the moon – either that,or we’re suffering from YourMail fatigue?
BobCarter Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Here’s one young man that seems to have won a big cuddly toy at Hull Fair – or is he one of those that’s paid to carry one around?
China Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

About 3 or 4 years ago I won a very large toy dog on one of those stalls.

The only problem was I never thought I would win and it was one of the first things I had a go on.

Those toys are heavy!
BobCarter Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

At least we now have a genuine big cuddly toy winner, China! I was speaking to one of my brothers earlier today about Hull Fair and he says he remembers someone who used to wrestle crocodiles there – and it was a real,live one – though he reckons it was dopey if not doped!
theagitator Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Who? The wrestler or the crocodile?
barrow Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

O course people will "win" a teddy,but only when they slip a odd number ticket from the bottom of the pile letting you win.So for every 20 people buying a £1 ticket,they will let one win a teddy costing them £3 and make £17 profit. The other year my grandaughter asked me to win her a teddy.I "won" one by asking the chap if he would sell me one for a fiver.He did.I won.She got the teddy.Every body happy.
casper Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Years ago a friend had a card stall at the fair. The sort where you have to hit three cards and add up the score. Behind so many of the cards there was a thin metal strip so that the dart wouldn’t stay in. You could still win on some cards but it made the chance of winning much less.
keef Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

At the very least it needs to be moved out of town !!
Akhenaten Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

It never ceases to amaze me how many of the less well-off can actually afford Hull Fair, especially if they have large families. That said, I have little doubt that, Credit Crunch or no, it will be well-attended again. A paradoxical remnant of a bygone age- but a well-loved tradition none the less. Must be hard on the locals, though. As for the chavs – perhaps we need a zoo?
barrow Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

The Council make a fortune from the rents and the car parking.But if they can run Hull Fair and make money,why do they let that site to a private market firm to run the market there which makes a lot of money,but only pays a small rent to the Council.That private firm then lets fake DVD sellers sell on Council owned land and the Council then has to spend money to stop them selling fake goods on their own land
christineblurton Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

my dad use to ride the wall of death,( is that still there?? ) his pay was 3/- per turn as there were about six of them that rode, it was chicken feed, but it was the challenge my favrite was the flea circus that was amazing
christineblurton Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

my dad use to ride the wall of death,( is that still there?? ) his pay was 3/- per turn as there were about six of them that rode, it was chicken feed, but it was the challenge my favrite was the flea circus that was amazing
HarryDownes Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

To christineblurton- Here’s the Wall of Death,Is that your Dad at the back of the Lion?
christineblurton Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

no that wasnt my dad Harry, my dad was a hairy biker so to say, he looked more like the lion lol i don,t remember the car either maybe before my time but there were 2 ladies that rode the wall of death one was called Carol Hardings maybe shes still around, mind you she would be a good old age
keef Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

All the positive posts are from people remembering a bygone age when we could expect to be entertained at Hull fair, sadly all it is now is a huge rip off.
ChiefDragon Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Are you still bleating on about the fair Keef?Your parents and their parents were probably saying the same thing as you ‘Hull fair is a rip off’ but to a child its still a world of magic and lights. If you don’t like it stay away, I do, but I wouldn’t take it away from the youngster’s. For those who live around the fair…well! it was there before they moved in and its only SEVEN days.
mimi Submitted 10 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Hull Fair is a rip off always has been, i think you just tend to notice it when you get older. My boyfriend hates Hull fair but knows he has to go for the sake of the kids. I still love it.
WilliamsFrancis Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

The dreaded fair is currently arriving !!
ArtH Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I have to say I like the atmosphere, but it is one big rip-off. On balance I’d say keep the fair as it is, but would like to see HMRC in to make sure taxes are being paid. As for the gangs, they are attracted to bright lights and noise whether it’s the fair or not. And talking about headaches for the emergency services bonfire night will be round again soon, with no doubt the usual suspects annoying everyone with their loud air bombs for a couple of weeks before and after Nov 5th
barrow Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Just a reminder.The win a big teddy van where you have to get 21 is a con.The chaps have a handful of tickets with the even numbers on top,and the odd numbers at the bottom.They will take even numbers from the top,so you buy another lot thinking there must be an odd number next.When THEY want a winner,they will slip an odd number ticket from the bottom of the stack and have a winner.You only win when THEY want a winner. Having said that,my grandkids are looking forward to it,just as I did many years ago
MikeCovell Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

Wonder what would happen of you asked for a ticket from the bottom?
barrow Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

A few years ago,when my grandaughter wanted me to win one,I asked the chap if he would take a fiver for one.As they only cost 50p each from a firm in Bradford,he said yes.The smile on her face was worth it and she was so happy that grandad "won"
MikeCovell Submitted 9 months ago Unsuitable Content? Report it!

I like the "Jumping frogs" game. You take a mallet and whack a metal lever which fires the rubber frog skywards! We have a game on the Nintendo Wii and it has all the fairground games on, including the "Jumping frogs"!!

I am pretty useless at both!