Title

'Wall of Death', motorbike side show, Goose Fair, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1973. Artist: WE Middleton & Son

Caption

'Wall of Death', motorbike side show, Goose Fair, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 1973. The Goose Fair was originally held in Nottingham's Market Place for 8 days of October, reduced to five days in 1876. The name possibly comes from the hundreds of geese which were at one time driven from Lincolnshire and Norfolk to be sold in Nottingham. Goose Fair was first mentioned in the Nottingham Borough Records of 1541, though it was probably in existence much earlier than this. It gradually became so large that it spread to other streets in the vicinity and, with the growth of traffic, there were complaints about congestion and disruption in the city. The Fair was eventually moved to Forest Recreation Ground, about a mile north of the Old Market Square.
Nottingham City Council collections

Date

2009

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Nottingham City Council

Reference

HRM19D66_138

Model release

Non

License type

Droits gérés

Available size

50,0Mo (1,9Mo) / 42,3cm x 29,6cm / 5000 x 3498 (300dpi)

Keywords

England people fairground funfair night country entertainment British English nottinghamshire location century fair Britain time of day B&W MONOCHROME seventies metaphor 1970s Nottingham black & white black and white Fairground Attraction B W 20th century sideshow all the fun of the fair TGN Forest Recreation Ground Nottingham Goose Fair wall of death NEMPR Picture the Past WE Middleton & Son Middleton WE & Son