Find out more about page archiving. BBC Local. Goose Fair goes back so far that no one knows for sure exactly how it got its name. Explore the BBC. There is always something for everyone to enjoy. Please note that Nottingham's Goose Fair has been cancelled. Enjoy a romantic stay in a beautiful chalet in the grounds of Langar Hall, and explore the surrounding area including country walks and walled gardens. Discover DH Lawrence country on the edge of Nottingham and follow in the footsteps of the county's most controversial literary hero.
Stroll along a network of landscaped trails before climbing to one of Nottinghamshire's highest points, where a view of Hardwick Hall awaits you. VisitEngland would like to invite you to take part in a short survey about our website, it should take no more than a couple of minutes. Go to the survey. The development of steam power then gave the go-head for even bigger attractions to pitch up, such as the helter skelter, the Big Wheel, roundabouts and motor cars.
The Theatre Royal scheduled special performances to attract fairgoers, and the local railways put on extra services to deal with the crowds.
The group — made up of individuals with no authority or power — argued that the working class were being most affected, and criticised it as being dirty, noisy and full of pickpockets, beggars and prostitutes.
Basically to jog on — no matter the state of affairs, it made the city over Army major Professor Thomas Scott Baldwin made the first parachute jump in Nottingham from a balloon hovering over Wollaton Park, to a crowd of thrilled spectators below. Taken from the memoirs of Mr G. The other slightly disturbing rumour is that wife-selling could have taken place at Goose Fair during the late eighteenth century.
After parading her around with a halter on her neck, arm, or waist, the husband would auction her to the highest bidder. Goose Fair also had a reputation for its cheese After Goose-stuffing had finally petered out, the fair gained a reputation for its high quality cheeses, with people travelling far and wide to grab a wheel of what historians liken to Red Leicester. In , Notts had just been through a building boom, and more people had moved to the city to find work.
Unfortunately for them, food prices had also risen sharply due to a poor harvest. On the evening of 18 October, a fight broke out between a trader and some Lincolnshire lads, who had purchased a large wheel of cheese and were intending to sell it in their home county.
Violence soon broke out, and so began the infamous Nottingham Cheese Riot — shop windows were broken, hundreds of wheels of cheese were rolled through the city and multiple rioters were injured, with one apparent death too. But perhaps the most amusing part of this whole story is the moment the Mayor tried to restore peace, only to be knocked down by a great wheel of the stinky stuff.
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