trogg 2,016 Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 City Council want to charge people to go onto the Forest site , the show men will not agree to it , so if no agreement is reached they may move Goose Fair to a different location. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,141 Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 They could always move it back to Slab square ! It certainly would be interesting watching the tram dodge between the waltzer and dodgems etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 807 Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 Remember Kimberley wakes with all smells of cooking candy floss toffee apples and Millie blasting out My Boy Lollipop in the 60s. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 Bring back ''Basford Wakes'' on Billy Bacon's field.......loved it as a young Teenager.....had lots of relatives on Wicklow street..... Like someone said Collar up'' chewing Gum'' whilst stood on the ;Waltzer'........loved two girls at that time from Old Basford..........cant forget their names.....'Trent and Soar''.......used to meet em down the 'Leen'........can't believe they moved the River to the other side of the Field........Even floated down the Leen from the back of Vernon park under the Vernon road bridge and onto 'Billy Bacons'........some painters had moored their 'Dinghy' for the weekend.........couldnt take it back with the Current being against us......so 'Moored it nicely under the next bridge..........Me and Harry Fewkes we were about eleven and thought we had sailed an Ocean............. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roger peatman 337 Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 Netherfield Wakes in Jacky Bell's field - trying to look cool, no handed on Fred Cox's Speedway, until the last 20 seconds at full speed - then hanging on for grim death ! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,728 Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 15 hours ago, Oztalgian said: I claim my $100 pound prize for the first mention of the Goose Fair, Is it likely to go ahead this year? Ahem...... Posted 23 hours ago The fairgrpound music did slowly catch up with the charts, but the first one I definitely recall from Goose Fair in the early 60s was: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,284 Posted August 6, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 OK DJ you win the prize, who do you get it from? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,728 Posted August 6, 2021 Report Share Posted August 6, 2021 I don't care!!! It's not about the money.. it's about the glory!!!! I won!! I WON!!!!! Err excuse me.. I need a lie down.... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willow wilson 894 Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 Another great item from the 'sound track' of my last few terms at senior school. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 I remember feeling so sad when we heard of Buddy Holly’s death. I’ve always associate his songs with the summer when I was on holiday in Filey. I had a crush on the lad who was in charge of the pony rides on the beach, and another lad whom I met at a fair there. Buddy Holly records were being played on the fairground rides! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 6,125 Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 When I played in a group, way back in the far and distant past, we used to do a lot of Buddy Holly numbers. I've still got a lot of his LP tapes which I haven't played in years. I wish I hadn't lost a fingertip. I would so such much like to play my Fender Stratocaster again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 807 Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 Where you at Filey or at the Butlins camp Margie i went to Butlins a few times in the early 60s. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 Ian, we weren’t at Butlins. In 1959? we stayed in a small guest house at the north end of the town, not far from the climb up to the top of the cliff walk above the Brigg. A couple of years before that we were also at Filey, staying in a caravan at Primrose Valley, south of the town. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 807 Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 I used to walk to Primose Valley from Butlins and back along the beach being very careful not to be cut off by the tide, one song i remember from being played a lot at Butlins was Shakin All Over by Johny Kid and the Pirates. Remember driving up to the Brigg and to a place called Hunmamby stopped there as it was part of a car rally we were in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 Hearing ‘Hummanby Gap’ always reminds me of Lonnie Donnegan singing Cumberland Gap I’ve just listened to that on YouTube but can’t be bothered to post it …. Bit of a rubbish song anyway ….. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IAN FINN 807 Posted August 8, 2021 Report Share Posted August 8, 2021 Post it anyway have not heard of Lonnie Donnegan for years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MargieH 7,600 Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 3,284 Posted August 9, 2021 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 19 hours ago, MargieH said: I remember feeling so sad when we heard of Buddy Holly’s death. The day the music died. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted August 9, 2021 Report Share Posted August 9, 2021 According to wikkipedia Lonnie Donnegan died Nov 3rd 2002. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,728 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 On 8/8/2021 at 6:20 PM, MargieH said: I remember feeling so sad when we heard of Buddy Holly’s death. Buddy died on my 10th Birthday. 3rd Feb 1959...so as well as being a huge fan.. I always get a reminder.. Who can guess where Buddy would have taken us? He influenced much of the 1960s pop boom, the Beatles, Hollies and many more... What a loss. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HSR 286 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Up until 20 year's ago, I was naive, Carl Perkins, what a player! I guess the commercial record buying public were denied true exposure... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,158 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Lovely song....great film......and terrific cast............ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 6,728 Posted August 10, 2021 Report Share Posted August 10, 2021 Chris Barber died in March of this year. Lonnie Donegan died in 2002. Morrison is still going, at 75. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,305 Posted August 12, 2021 Report Share Posted August 12, 2021 A friend of mine has had a bit of a row with British Gas after they failed to keep an appointment. Reminded me of that wonderful song by Flanders and Swann, The Gas Man Cometh. That, in turn, reminded me of this. Always one of my favourites Very clever lyrics. Their work wouldn't be appreciated today. Not sufficiently pc. It's still appreciated by those of us with a sense of humour! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,413 Posted August 12, 2021 Report Share Posted August 12, 2021 As you say clever, very clever.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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