Feast or Fair? Discuss....

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  1. Redarmy87

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    Was feyst in Darfield too..
     
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    It’s ‘fair’ ter sey, ad pay mi ‘fare’ on’t bus, to gu to Barnsli ‘Feerst’.
     
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    In Lincolnshire where I spent a lot of my childhood it was "feast". The word "fair" was used to describe the dodgems, waltzers etc, but the actual event was definitely the feast.
     
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    Was always called the feast when I was a sprog in Bolton on Dearne.
     
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    It was always fair to me…as in fair ground
     
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    Either for me.
    But as Barnsley foork you had to say feerst.
     
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    Fearst and the lads who run it and got off with all the lasses round back of waltzers were fearsties!
     
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    Wombwell Feast, Feast field, Barnsley Feast week.
     
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    Maybe its a Wombwell thing - I'm from Wombwell and it was always the Feast (pronounced feyst) - The feast field was opposite Kings Road School where the Police station is. I dont remember just getting Sloppy peas there but it may well have been an option
     
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    Feast on brierley common them were the days
     
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    Aye. I went to King's Road. Halcyon days.
     
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    My wife is exactly the same. But then she's posh & I'm a rough un.

    It's the Feast.
     
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    Feast. It was always Dodworth Feast and Barnsley Feast when I was young.
     
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    As I remember, Barnsley Feast Week was late August.

    On the first Saturday morning there'd be lines of coaches, probably over 100, going past our house on Wilthorpe Road, in the direction of Huddersfield.

    Presumably bound for Blackpool.
     
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    My mum taught there for 20 odd years, up until it closing, nice school.
     
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    From Penistone - definitely feeyerst (my dad, who is late sixties, has always used this.)
     
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    In the fifties and sixties, Thursday night of the Feast was "Old Folks Night". Tickets were sold for the benefit of the Old FolksTreat Fund (usually a day trip to the seaside). Tickets were accepted by the freasties and people were allowed on the rides for half price. It was a way for the Feast owners to support the local community. I wonder when that all stopped? My guess is the early seventies.
     
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