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unusual facts about fairground


Fairground, St. Louis

The neighborhood’s boundaries are defined as Glasgow Avenue on the east, west and North Florissant Avenues on the north, Warne on the west, and Fairground Park and Natural Bridge Avenue on the south.


Alexander Hurley

He went from working in London's docks as a tea packer to boxing in fairground booths, before moving on to the music hall as a coster singer with the song The Strongest Man In The World.

Altındağ, Ankara

Altınpark - A large park, formerly a golf course, noted for its 10 metre high statue of a loaf of bread at the entrance; contains a fairground, go-karting, ice-skating, large pools for boating and fishing, the Feza Gürsey Science Center, and much more.

Eglwysbach

The village plays host to an annual Agricultural show and horticultural show in August, which includes displays of local cattle, sheep, heavy and light horses, showjumping a horticulture marquee, fairground rides and trades stands.

English underground

We must remember the 'underground' of the ballad singer and the fairground which handed on traditions to the nineteenth century (to the music hall, or Dickens' circus folk or Hardy's pedlars and showmen); for in these ways the 'inarticulate masses of people conserve certain values - a spontaneity and capacity for enjoyment and mutual loyalties - despite the inhibiting pressures of magistrates, mill-owners, and Methodists.

Flying horses

Carousel, a fairground ride also sometimes known as flying horses

Hanover Fairground

The railway station is named Hannover Messe/Laatzen after the suburb of Laatzen, which has a common border with Hanover near the fairground.

Hi-Yo Silver!

In fact the first version of the cover, with a portrait of Kulseth taken late at night at great expense in front of a joyride in the Gothenburg fairground Liseberg, was rejected by EMI for looking too "country".

Limonaire Frères

After restructuring in 1887, the company expanded so well based on book-based organs, that they opened a factory in the German Black Forest town of Waldkirch, center of fairground organ building industry.

Melchior Broederlam

From 1381 he was court painter to Louis de Mâle, Duke of Brabant, and from Louis's death in 1384 worked for his son-in-law and successor, Philip the Bold, although he remained based in Ypres, doing much work, mostly decorative, at Philip's now vanished chateau at Hesdin, which was full of elaborate mechanical devices, of what we might today call a fairground nature, which needed painting.

Spring Palace

The Texas Spring Palace in Fort Worth, was an agricultural fairground designed to attract settlers and investors to Texas, which opened, after construction that was completed in barely a month, May 29, 1889.

The Iron Maiden

Once converted she was based in Alfreton, Derbyshire and undertook fairground work, until bought for preservation in 1952.

Théâtre de la foire

The fairground itself was established in 1482 by Louis XI for the benefit of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and was located near the Abbey on the Left Bank southwest of the city center just outside one of the gates of the city wall built by Philip II at the beginning of the 13th century.

Weyhill

The historic Weyhill Fairground was the site used by Thomas Hardy in his book The Mayor of Casterbridge where Michael Henchard sells his wife.


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