| Ilkeston comes alive every October when the annual fair takes over the town. Gooch’s Swing Explorer was a new novelty in 1996 alongside Crecraft’s Tsunami and Wall’s Hotshot. Bakewell’s (Whiting’s Funfairs) 1994 Well Dressing Fair was then held on the old market site which has now been redeveloped, but then was attended by Billy Warwick’s Skid & Wheatley’s Caterpillar. Sample the unique atmosphere with straw boaters and striped shirts at the very busy Nottingham Riverside Fair seen here in 1997 proudly presented as usual, jointly by Bert Holland & James Mellors. |