Cherry Rogers remembers going to the funfair<\/p>\n
My first memory of going to the fair is of me sitting in my pram, in Nana’s kitchen, ready to go.\u00a0 My Nana looked out of the window and said, “I don\u2019t know Doll, it\u2019s a bit black over Will\u2019s Mothers.”\u00a0 I piped up, “I don\u2019t want to go to Will’s Mothers.\u00a0 I want to go to the fair.\u201d\u00a0 For anybody who doesn\u2019t know what that means, it means the sky is dark and it looks like rain.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if only my family said it or it was a common thing to say.\u00a0 I have never found out who Will was or his Mother.\u00a0 When I was little everyone went to the fair, it was looked forward to with great excitement and was always held on the Ram Meadow, the field behind the Ram.\u00a0 Not just kids went, but the whole family.\u00a0 We had candy floss, which stuck to your cheeks and your nose and I loved it.\u00a0 But I didn\u2019t like the spit wash I got afterwards.\u00a0 Ugh.<\/p>\n
There was a rifle range and coconut shy, and they were a swizz.\u00a0 They stuck the coconuts on at an angle so they wouldn\u2019t fall over.\u00a0 We did win one once and it was about a hundred years old.\u00a0 There was a stall with yellow ducks floating round and you had to hook them out to win a prize.\u00a0 I won a goldfish once.\u00a0 You got them to take home in a jam jar or in later years a plastic bag.\u00a0 There was hoopla and darts, where you had to hit playing cards.\u00a0 There was roll a penny and you had to land it right in the middle of the square to win and you won in pennies whatever number you landed on.\u00a0 You could win a toy, a coconut or a big chalky ornament of a boy standing with a dog.\u00a0 You could buy rock, humbugs, toffee apples, big slabs of coconut ice and nougat with hazelnuts in it.\u00a0 There was swinging boats and you made them work by pulling a rope with a woolly bit on the end which was red white and blue, like a bell rope.\u00a0 There was dodgems, with bits of metal on top which scraped across a bit of wire netting above the ride and blue sparks came off it.\u00a0 One of the fairground men used to ride on the back of some of the cars and move about to get traffic jams going.\u00a0 My favourite was the carousel, which had horses and bench seats for three or four people to sit together.\u00a0 The bench seats were preferred in the teenage years!\u00a0 The music was loud and you could hear it half way up the High Street.\u00a0 There was noise from generators, with a distinctive smell of smoke, petrol and trodden down grass.<\/p>\n
They had a wall of death once and a side show which said come and see the little people.\u00a0 You paid and looked into it and it was, short people having a tea party.\u00a0 How awful is that?\u00a0 When I was in my teens I used to go to the fair to meet boys and go on the dodgem cars with them.\u00a0 Later we went to the funfair at Yarmouth.\u00a0 Some of the rides you see today are mind blowing, I wouldn\u2019t like them!\u00a0 I like to watch people come off them.\u00a0 I bet we still had more fun on the Ram Meadow though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cherry Rogers remembers going to the funfair My first memory of going to the fair is of me sitting in my pram, in Nana’s kitchen, ready to go.\u00a0 My Nana looked out of the window and said, “I don\u2019t know Doll, it\u2019s a bit black over Will\u2019s Mothers.”\u00a0 I piped up, “I don\u2019t want to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[104,149,239],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memories","tag-cherry-rogers","tag-funfair","tag-ram-meadow","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}