ST Giles Fair in Oxford has catered for people of all ages for centuries. These are just some of the thousands of photographs taken at the annual festival.
Picture 1 shows six-year-old Emma Tate getting revved up to ride on one of the roundabouts in 1980, while Linda Tanner, five, enjoys a similar experience in 1954, Picture 2, below.
A family of four, seen in Picture 3, managed to squeeze into a car with two steering wheels in 1973, mum and dad happy to sit in the back and let their youngsters ‘drive’. Can anyone name them?
Picture 4 shows Lesley Price, above, who helped her family run a refreshments stall at the fair, as a birthday girl in 1977. But any celebrations had to wait until the fair was over.
Her father, Arthur, had been running his stall at the fair for 30 years and Lesley and her brother and sister had been roped in to continue the family tradition.
Lesley said: “My mum went into labour just as the fair got under way. Before it was over, I was born.”
While most people were enjoying the attractions, 20-month-old Victoria Brown, of Oxford Road, Old Marston, in Picture 5, above, couldn’t have cared less. She dozed off, oblivious of the noise around her.
Picture 6, main pic, sent in by Sue Hallett, of Florence Park Road, Cowley, takes us back to the 1920s.
She writes: “The gentleman with the wonderful crop of hair (towards the left of the picture) and the two ladies in front are from the Hiorns family of Eynsham.”
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