Nottingham Goose Fair, 1861
Our great annual Goose Fair, according to time-honoured custom, was proclaimed by the Mayor with the usual formalities on Wednesday morning last, since which time every inch of space in our great market place has been crowded to repletion with shows, booths, canvas-walled theatres, menageries, giants, dwarfs, learned pigs, double-headed calves, five-legged sheep, and double-bodied nondescripts, to the intense astonishment of such of the teetotal fraternity as can stray so far from the enticement of the market pump as to look upon the intoxicating scene and abjure "cakes and ale" for conscience sake.
The Era: October 6th 1861 (12/2)
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