| Staff have begun moving the remaining animals out of its zoo and mothballing the fairground. |
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| The tramway, the kiddies' fairground, the open moor and tranquillity is really what families value most preciously. |
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| Riverside fairground bosses in York were on full alert today after the Environment Agency issued a yellow flood warning. |
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| However, we were met with a raucous noise purporting to be music, and fairground stalls. |
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| After all, a swimming pool and a fairground are the ingredients of every good seaside resort, while those who want good shops go to Manchester. |
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| Attractions will include a fairground, five-a-side football, food and stalls. |
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| The fun of the fairground also came to life at this year's fair, with an impressive exhibition of showman's engines. |
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| What began as a zoo with a fairground attached has evolved into an exciting yet eccentric family-run park. |
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| We drove a mile or so to Shipley Glen, a wooded hillside where a bit of family fairground fun awaited. |
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| So it is quite possible that your great-great-grandfather could have been a well-paid manager for a fairground family for many years. |
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| It was where, as a teenager, he saw the fairground showmen set up camp with waltzers, dodgems and swingboats. |
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| Mr Birch, 29, is the son of a fairground showman and spent his formative years touring fair sites around Yorkshire. |
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| Early cinema performances were given in tents by travelling fairground showmen, and were then taken up by music-hall proprietors. |
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| If you get up and scream as if you're a fairground barker, an incredible energy has to come through. |
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| Mr Breeze said he hoped to find an alternative site for the fairground in the local area. |
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| There was a bouncy castle, fairground and a car boot sale, and youngsters were also able to try out their riding skills on quad bikes. |
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| Events on the day included pony and fairground rides, children's entertainers and fun stalls and bouncy castles. |
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| Other family attractions include a fairground, vintage car display, trade stands and helicopter rides. |
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| Every second is stuffed with bright, brittle melodies that make you feel as if you've done too many turns on a fairground waltzer. |
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| This year will see the usual attractions of the fairground, dancers and parade. |
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| Michael, the Human Onion, a useless fairground attraction, sits lumpishly in a tent, failing to impress his young audience. |
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| In addition to her fairground business, she sells smuggled liquor to the inns and public houses on her circuit. |
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| There are plenty of attractions including an indoor Christmas market and children's fairground. |
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| The fairground atmosphere in Hamilton Terrace was enhanced by tightly packed stalls offering treats from cuddly toys to candy floss. |
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| The regulations, he said, would place a duty of care on organisers of funfairs and owners of fairground equipment. |
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| Then there are three more standing on the side of the road and I get the feeling of what it must be to be target in a fairground rifle range. |
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| A huge funfair and children's fairground will also be set up in the centre to turn Bradford into a vibrant shopping experience. |
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| After wandering around the altered room, I felt as if I was in a fairground funhouse where floors and walls are designed to discombobulate. |
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| The owner of a historic fairground ride began to demolish it yesterday after its protection as a listed building was lifted. |
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| The young man once saved an Aboriginal fairground attendant from the gallows. |
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| This year's Christmas lights switch-on promises to be a extravaganza with fairground rides, a street fair and musical entertainment. |
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| The rule has been applied to water, fire, gas, electricity, chemicals, explosions, fumes, flag-poles, fairground roundabouts, and even gypsies. |
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| We descended from the castle to keep a promise to our daughter to let her go on a fairground ride near the town harbour. |
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| In the park there were various fairground rides and the usual stalls and attractions. |
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| You can feel the heat of this conflagration over one hundred yards away and it burns all night to the sound of local teens puking up over the side of the fairground twister. |
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| More than 13,000 visitors traveled to Hanover on May 13th and 14th. 80 busses ferried visitors from the branches to the fairground. |
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| He is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Food and Drink For a long time, the travelling fairground was central to British popular culture. |
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| In the words on the fairground operator: what you lose on the swings, you make up for on the roundabouts. |
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| Every hour special seminars took place in the convention center near the fairground. |
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| At first sight, we believed it was a guy juggling with burning bowling pins or some random fairground street entertainer, but we were wrong. |
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| One and a half months of hot chestnuts, white wine, candy floss and fairground rides. |
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| Images and sounds of musical boxes, organ clocks, fairground and dance hall organs and pianolas. |
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| Modern agitation clashes with fairground agility, and pessimism with complicit laughter, fleeting happiness and unbridled witticisms. |
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| That fairground is so wonderful, but you have to pay an entrance fee of LL 5,000 and LL 2,000 more per ride. |
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| For two weeks, a constant festive atmosphere reigned in the Nave with the magic, colours and rhythms of the circus and the fairground. |
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| A third features children swinging around a watchtower as though it were a fairground ride. |
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| A sporting clay pigeon shoot takes place on both days and the bouncy castle and old time fairground are always popular with children. |
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| This debate reminds me of a fairground carousel, on which sometimes a Turkish, sometimes a Croatian and sometimes a Macedonian horse rides by. |
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| Once in you can elect to change luncheon on Friday 17 March 2005 at your password to something more the fairground. |
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| Business skills: vocational training for circus and fairground families to run their businesses. |
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| Mr Petty is set to create a one-acre fairground on Labworth Recreation Ground which would include around 40 miniature attractions as well as side shows and coconut shies. |
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| Whitman, so deeply sensuous that his poetry has the emotive compulsion of the fairground mountebank, was famous enough to be used in advertisements. |
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| He was hosting a children's circus skills workshop on August 15 when the chrome unicycle, worth several hundred pounds, was stolen from the fairground in Station Park. |
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| Rayna, who runs the fairground snack bar, blamed the rain at first. |
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| The instrumentation includes a fairground organ and a zither. |
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| It ended, magnificently, in a shoot-out between the women in a fairground hall of mirrors. |
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| On weekends, the parking lot doubles as a sort of fairground and playground for kids. |
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| I liked the fairground rides and I got soaked on the Lost River. |
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| Perforated cards began to replace barrels for fairground organs during the 19th century, and at about that time the player piano, with a punched paper roll, was introduced. |
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| Does anybody else feel that the appropriate place for a big wheel is in a fairground rather than a modern shopping centre trying to improve its image? |
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| All the talk of a big wheel coming to York this summer reminds me of the time a young mum took her five-year-old son on the big wheel at the fairground. |
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| Nothing, it seems, has escaped the bullets, including many religious statues peppered with holes like target figures in a fairground shooting gallery. |
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| His design transports you to the gaudy, decrepit fairground, complete with working helter-skelter and carousel, and shows you the beauty in the ramshackle and ruinous. |
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| The finish was recreational, fishing lakes, a golf course with good views of Malton, racing stables, and the sound of music and fairground attractions. |
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| Youngsters tucked into tasty fish and chips and candyfloss at the water's edge while others enjoyed some white-knuckle fun on the fairground rides. |
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| Otherwise this year's gathering will remain untouched featuring everything from traditional fairground rides to traction engines, steamrollers and wagons. |
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| The opening, where the stage is apparently bare and then transforms into the carousel and fairground, is a magical effect and was, itself, well worth the price of admission. |
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| While modern rollercoasters and large swingboats may excite most of the terror on fairground rides, it is the humble roundabout that causes the most accidents. |
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| The summer festival included sporting events along with arts and crafts, food stalls and fairground shows. |
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| Cardiff's Winter Wonderland ice rink and fairground returns to the front lawn of the City Hall every winter. |
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| At the fairgrounds, two cars will race simultaneously on identical tracks laid out with jumps and curves in the fairground arena. |
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| For the first time this year, the museum also offered a 50s vintage fairground, with attractions such as flying frogs hoopla. |
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| For the first time this year you can also have a go on 1950s vintage fairground attractions, flying frogs hoopla anyone? |
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| We've got a fairground, two steam organs, steamroller and some vintage cars. |
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| Three people suffered broken bones after going on a fairground ride called the Earthshaker. |
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| Actually, the organisers of Cosmoprof are moving the former Monaco Spa Event into their brand new trade fair halls 14 and 15 in the Bologna fairground and have renamed it Cosmoprof Spa Bologna. |
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| In France, the fairground artists, travelling performers and barkers of Pont-Neuf are often called the ancestors of the street arts, as are the actors of outdoor Greek theatre, and the Medieval Mysteries. |
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| The colourful and vibrant programme features live music, performance, children's arts zone and fairground attractions, as well as breathtaking fireworks on Saturday night. |
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| At the beginning our fairground experts were sceptical. |
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| Caribbean food, fairground rides and various stalls and attractions are available. |
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| The Marine Lake, an artificial excavation in the west of the town, used to be a tourist destination, with fairground rides and a zoo. |
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| On the clifftop there is an amusement park with fairground rides, souvenir shops and a cafe. |
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| The marquees are set up on a permanent fairground in the district of Los Remedios, in which each street is named after a famous bullfighter. |
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| The fairground rides are situated in the Great Dockray and Market Square car parks situated in the commercial area of Penrith. |
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| What about my window cleaner, or the bloke at the fairground on the dodgem cars? |
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| Can we get enough done to cover the rackety walls on the rhyl fairground site. |
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| The Hannover fair is the largest industrial exhibition of the world and takes place each spring on the fairground Hannover, the largest fairground of the world. |
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| His end-of-show game, Lemon Drops, saw him dangled like a fairground game claw with Cilla Black dropping him to pick up prizes. |
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| Approximately 120 exhibitors from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Korea, Czech Republic, Iceland and Sweden presented themselves on the fairground in Bremen for three days. |
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| I called my version of Von Horvath's play The Funfair and relocated it from the Munich Oktoberfest to a Platt Fields or Heaton Park travelling fairground. |
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| Roundabouts, swings, shooting galleries and other fairground amusements. |
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| As with the giant slides this celebrated trickster installed in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall nine years ago, his shows can be as much fairground as exhibition. |
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| To worry the powers to be and to overcome death, at least for the duration of a representation on a village green, a fairground stand or in popular theatres. |
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| The atmosphere was that of a day out at a down-at-heel fairground. |
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| Today the European Union is becoming a fairground where the politicians of the Member States are guided only by their own interests and the objective of satisfying their voters. |
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| It can come as a sudden, giddying surprise, amid the fairground tat of piers, to see the sea crawling darkly under your feet as you sip your cup of tea, or a seagull flying below you. |
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| So he went back to the old abandoned fairground nearby: a modest wheel, swings, licorice sherbet and ordinary neon lights covered with green and red paper. |
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| Live music, Irish dancers, Dhol drummers, Silkie the Clown, face painting and fairground rides were part of the entertainment. |
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| This is absolutely legitimate, but we must not turn this into a sort of fairground shooting-gallery where we blast away and see how many candidate Commissioners remain standing. |
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| The OurPlace festival will also include a skate display, DJ set and traditional fairground games including a coconut shy and skittle alley. |
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| The community event features traditional family fun including fairground games such as tombola, welly wanging and tug of war. |
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| There's never been anything like it in Gateshead, other than a fairground nearby in Dunston about 40 years ago when I was a boy. |
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| Port Chantereyne and the Mielles lands are reclaimed from the sea, the Place Divette and Boulevard Schuman are created at the site of the old fairground. |
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| I can't count the times I've been juddered from sleep by a thunderous wave of sound, like fifteen riders revving their way round a fairground Wall Of Death. |
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| Constantly transmigrating, she leads Pierston through a fairground of illusions and leaves him with a glaring paradox about the relation of desire to its object. |
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| The Carnival includes a parade, street dancers and fairground rides. |
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| An agreement allowing fairground veteran Henry Danter to take over the fairground was completed late on Friday with the keys due to be handed over at 10am today. |
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| Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks. |
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| The company also managed to transform part of the site into a family fun park for the day where visitors were treated to fairground attractions, popcorn and candy floss. |
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| Even drink, that great extenuator of grievous bodily harm inflicted on the fairground, could not turn a rape into the natural outcome of uncontrollable impulses. |
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| It was not unusual to see attractions such as a variety of fairground attractions, strongmen, escapologists, racing tipsters together with games of skill and chance. |
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| Visitors to the fun day from 11am to 4pm could take part in It's A Knockout-style games, sample food and have a go on fairground rides and pedalos on the river. |
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| Today's fairground rides are high-speed and highly sophisticated. |
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