Rugeley Charter Fair 2017

I was hoping this was on ILM.

Is there anything that distinguishes a charter fair from a goose fair or any other kind of fair?

less geese?

I lived in the place for 18-odd years and have no memory of the Charter Fair as a kid

Only poultry-plentiful fairs are truly memorable.

there's a street called Horsefair and a street called Sheepfair so we obviously had different livestock interests

not that that doesn't sound way more quaint than the decaying 80s bomb site of a town centre that is Rugeley today

These days it's all Betfair amirite?

i'm not even sure they'll touch the place

Today I was scoping out whether there are any interesting-sounding pubs in Newark or Lincoln, and it occurred to me that I'm really really ignorant about the route of the Trent and almost totally ignorant of the towns along it. Like, I've been to Stoke a couple of times, Nottingham two or three times, Burton once, that's about it. Until about ten minutes ago I'd have guessed that the Trent flowed into the sea in The Wash, though if you'd told me if flowed into the Mersey rather than the Humber I'd probably have accepted that as true. I'm genuinely quite ashamed.

i've always enjoyed the thought that i could canoe my way from Hull to Rugeley and back rather than using the slightly less efficient rail system

You should do it, in a swan pedalo obv, timing your journey to arrive in glory during the Charter Fair.

with T-Rex blaring from an onboard PA, obv

I'm thinking you can probably leave the tall hat and the tattered gown to other Charter Fairgoers, but whatever floats your etc etc.