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  • All the Fun of the Fair June 8, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    All the Fun of the Fair

    This is an early nineteenth-century list (1826) of the things that folk got up to in a fair at Hungerford. It sounds so much better than those fairs that appear on the edges of American films, or the dreadful ‘carnivals’ that Beach was dragged to as a child. The writer comes back, time and time, […]