Chatsworth
Country Fair
It's a lovely morning but
on the chilly side of fresh, what shall we do today?
The Country Fair is on at
Chatsworth, do you fancy that? We did and here we are on our way,
but stopping for the odd pic! Here looking north from the Buxton
Road with Shining Tor and Cats Tor making the horizon on the right
of the picture.
But, can you imagine, we
weren't the only one attracted by the Chatsworth Country Fair!
Here's part of the traffic tailback that made us take 45 minutes
to cover less than 5km!
But here we are at last
and aren't there a lot of cars! And this is only one parking area!
It would be quite churlish
to grumble too much about traffic delays. On the whole the event
seemed very professionally and sympathetically organised. Here
is an additional temporary bridge thrown across the River Derwent
purely for the occasion.
Just inside the entrance
a motley collection of military vehicles (making a show of force?)
...
... closer inspection showed
them to be privately owned and even the odd one for sale.
What's that about getting
your tanks off my lawn?
But a Country Fair is about
country life not military alarms and excursions. Here outside
the Handicrafts tent, rather than under a spreading chestnut tree,
the blacksmith of an unknown village hammers, heats and pounds
the iron into some new shape and use.
A less noisy but no less
transforming skills are being exercised in creating a rocking
horse from an amalgam of wood blocks.
A country fair without a
dog show and obedience display is almost impossible to conceive
and there were plenty of dogs of all descriptions about the site
all day. Here one of a pair of St Bernards pass docilely by with
their handlers, and most dogs here were also well behaved.
....
At the Palace of the North
you maybe expect to see the occasional Rolls-Royce, but two yellow
ones and both so well presented ...?
This 1911 Regal was one
of only a few veteran cars but the Sunday was expected to have
the ranks of all classes of vehicles considerably swollen.
This Dennis fire engine
would attract the attention of 'small boys' of all ages no matter
how many vehicles were present.
Continued
in Part II
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