The Goose Fair is held annually in which British city?
Nottingham Goose Fair from Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk to be sold in Nottingham. The birds' feet were coated with a mixture of tar and sand to protect them on the long journey of fifty miles or more. It is recorded that anything up to 20,000 geese were driven up through Hockley and along "Goose Gate" into Nottingham's Old Market Square where the fair was held annually for hundreds of years. The geese were sold in Nottingham to provide the traditional Michaelmas dish of roast goose; geese that had hatched in the spring were ready for the table by the end of September. Michaelmas
Nottingham Goose Fair over, and by the end of the 19th century Goose Fair included various gondola rides and gallopers, switchback horses, a tunnel railway, bikes, yachts, as well as animal side shows. The fair gradually spread out into the streets surrounding the Old Market Square, which led to increased congestion, especially with the growth of traffic in the city. In 1928, the fair was relocated to the Forest Recreation Ground, having finally outgrown the city centre. The move was highly controversial at the time but the concerns proved to be unfounded as the new site, which is more than twice the size