The Nottingham Goose Fair is an annual fun fair held in Nottingham, England, during the first week of October. It is largely provided by showmen (travelling fair people). It is one of only two established fairs in the United Kingdom to carry the name, the other being the smaller Goosey Fair in Tavistock, Devon.
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That ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. The House That Jack Built (l. 4–6)
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There enter moments of an azure hue,
Untarnished fair as is the violet
Or anemone, when the spring strews them
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I have remembered when the winter came,”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)