Boot, Craft and Produce Fair late September 2020
It was a cold strong northerly wind that greeted the stallholders as they arrived to set up for the second Rotary Boot Fair on the last Sunday in September.
Gone were the tee shirts and shorts worn for the earlier September fair to be replaced by thick coats, scarves, hats and gloves. The weather was however dry, and a good crowd was soon attracted to the 60 stalls set up on Martello Fields.
The wind was however a problem for some stallholders as their goods were being blown off their display tables. Indeed at the end of the fair, a black bag full of smaller plastic bags was blown about resulting in a large number of the smaller bags being blown all over the field and much scurrying by some of the Rotary marshals to recover the escaping bags.
Being the expected last fair of the year several of the stallholders displayed Christmas wares with one stall selling festive articles only. Other stalls however were selling a varied assortment of wares including carpets, a disabled child’s wheelchair, an electric fire, a gateleg table, a union jack onesie, whisky barrel planters, a pushchair and a child’s high leg seat.
The restrictions imposed for the two previous fairs this year were still in place, and so members of the public were seen queueing at the entrance to the field when the limit of 150 people was reached, and were only allowed into the field when others left after following the one way system around the stalls. Both stallholders and members of the public were required to wear face coverings.
