Each year the Fair would come to the Rec. Very exciting. Half a crown went a long way. I can remember watching, not riding, the Wall of Death. There was a man jumping through a hoop of fire into a water tank and my favourite was the flea circus – little fleas in a glass case with pink skirts on pushing prams and wheelbarrows along. No, I hadn’t been drinking! I thought it was wonderful – we had to pay extra to go in to watch it but I remember going in with my mother, and then I think my grandmother took me as well. Carol Corbett nee Cotton b 19