The 'Jumpin Frog' ride

Week 42 Hull Fair

Never been to Hull Fair before. The Fair used to visit Scarborough every year on William Street coach park and we used to go down. Never one for the 'big rides' I fancied myself as a sharp shooter on the rifle ranges and always left with a coconut and Wrights Brandy Snap!

My mother used to talk about Hull Fair and how big it was, her father worked in Hull for a time and she had been. I always wanted to go, but it never happened, until two of us from Driffield Photographic Society decided to have a go at timed exposures to get the light trails from the rides. What an experience, you could fit ten Scarborough Fairs into the space. I was in awe of the lights, the sounds and the smells and had a great evening, even took home some Wrights Brandy Snap. I am sure the stall had never altered in fifty years, but that is a sign of good fairground tradition.