anyone going to appleby this week

[snoopdog 1,256]

its not half the show it used to be i first went up in the late eighties when i was a teenager its got to commerclised spelt wrong i went up nine years on the trot i used to help my oldman with his stall it used to be a bit rough at night in the boozer seen some interesting things happen up there on the hill .....if you didnt do before it got like everyother show i supppose you wont no any different ..... some of the best horseman in the country go up there ...also some off the worst i saw a horse collapse and die up there it died of heat exhaustion .......anyway it still has some good points ..there used to be a showman up there he could knock 6" nails into of a lump off wood with his hand ..... bit tip for you newbies DONT buy any gold up there off anybody you will see some off the biggest gold chains you have ever seen but you have to be carefull . most of its shite ...not that i wear jewellry i leave that to the ladies . .but i have seen quite a few dog men wearing it :whistle: all the best if nothing else it will be an exspearinace

[Moby 0]

its not half the show it used to be i first went up in the late eighties when i was a teenager its got to commerclised spelt wrong i went up nine years on the trot i used to help my oldman with his stall it used to be a bit rough at night in the boozer seen some interesting things happen up there on the hill .....if you didnt do before it got like everyother show i supppose you wont no any different ..... some of the best horseman in the country go up there ...also some off the worst i saw a horse collapse and die up there it died of heat exhaustion .......anyway it still has some good points ..there used to be a showman up there he could knock 6" nails into of a lump off wood with his hand ..... bit tip for you newbies DONT buy any gold up there off anybody you will see some off the biggest gold chains you have ever seen but you have to be carefull . most of its shite ...not that i wear jewellry i leave that to the ladies . .but i have seen quite a few dog men wearing it :whistle: all the best if nothing else it will be an exspearinace

to true snoopdog sadly it has gone downhill,i used to stop on the hill in the early 80s,i believe the showman was called jonny eagle,he used to get the fattest bloke he could find to stand on him when laid on a load of brocken bottles,a game old f****r he was.

[antg 1,765]

its not half the show it used to be i first went up in the late eighties when i was a teenager its got to commerclised spelt wrong i went up nine years on the trot i used to help my oldman with his stall it used to be a bit rough at night in the boozer seen some interesting things happen up there on the hill .....if you didnt do before it got like everyother show i supppose you wont no any different ..... some of the best horseman in the country go up there ...also some off the worst i saw a horse collapse and die up there it died of heat exhaustion .......anyway it still has some good points ..there used to be a showman up there he could knock 6" nails into of a lump off wood with his hand ..... bit tip for you newbies DONT buy any gold up there off anybody you will see some off the biggest gold chains you have ever seen but you have to be carefull . most of its shite ...not that i wear jewellry i leave that to the ladies . .but i have seen quite a few dog men wearing it :whistle: all the best if nothing else it will be an exspearinace

to true snoopdog sadly it has gone downhill,i used to stop on the hill in the early 80s,i believe the showman was called jonny eagle,he used to get the fattest bloke he could find to stand on him when laid on a load of brocken bottles,a game old f****r he was.

 

yes thats his name. think he was from the newcastle area. he did his thing ,colected his money then went on the piss the rest of the day. not a bad judge realy

have to agree the fair aint what it used to be. more like a boot sale now.

[snoopdog 1,256]

yeh thats his name a bald fecker he was he also used to push a nail through his side he was a game old git tough as old boots ive had some fun up there and a few tumbles with the pikeys it used to be a free pitch up there ive heard now there are asking £500.....£800 a pitch now... money fecks everything .....me and my old man used to sit with some proper old timers in there bow tops how things has changed its a shame really .....i will ask my old man if he has any pics from the late eighties early ninties ........i remmember being sat in the boozer and thousands of pounds would get exchanged for a good piebald or shcbald spelling ....they were spitting on there hands and shouting deal it amazed me when i was a youngster havent been up for 7 or 8 years maybe i should have another look i suppose everthing changes i might even see some off the old rouges i used to know ...

[MATTI 34]

When they are washing the horses in the river it's the nearest they get to haveing a wash themselve; there should be a flash flood and wash the stinking theiveing p***y's away, and before you all get on your high horse's (pardon the pun) i am from travelling stock just in the next few week's the crime wave around the area not just Appleby double's and anything that is'ny nailed down is gone, most of the folk that come in there old vardo's come from a council estate where they scrounge on benefit's, come to a horse fair and pretend to be romany desendant's, by "rocking the kecka" and "manging the chant". I have some good pal's that are genuine traveller's and don't go near.

[Guest Frank]

yeh thats his name a bald fecker he was he also used to push a nail through his side he was a game old git tough as old boots ive had some fun up there and a few tumbles with the pikeys it used to be a free pitch up there ive heard now there are asking £500.....£800 a pitch now... money fecks everything .....me and my old man used to sit with some proper old timers in there bow tops how things has changed its a shame really .....i will ask my old man if he has any pics from the late eighties early ninties ........i remmember being sat in the boozer and thousands of pounds would get exchanged for a good piebald or shcbald spelling ....they were spitting on there hands and shouting deal it amazed me when i was a youngster havent been up for 7 or 8 years maybe i should have another look i suppose everthing changes i might even see some off the old rouges i used to know ...

 

I know what you mean snoop

I use to got o ballinasloe every year, back in the early 90's and boy, was it an experince

 

Their were, lurchers, chickens, ferrets, pigs, ect ect and lotsa horses of different shapes and sizes.

It was like something out of the medevil times.

 

Havent been in years now, must go prehaps this coming october

 

Frank.

[antg 1,765]

When they are washing the horses in the river it's the nearest they get to haveing a wash themselve; there should be a flash flood and wash the stinking theiveing p***y's away, and before you all get on your high horse's (pardon the pun) i am from travelling stock just in the next few week's the crime wave around the area not just Appleby double's and anything that is'ny nailed down is gone, most of the folk that come in there old vardo's come from a council estate where they scrounge on benefit's, come to a horse fair and pretend to be romany desendant's, by "rocking the kecka" and "manging the chant". I have some good pal's that are genuine traveller's and don't go near.

 

 

your not far rong there Matti.

loads of us used to stay at middlton in teesdale on the way up some with horses some with carravans ect. we did it for years. all from around were we lived till some others starded to stop at the same place on there way up and that was it. the baxstards were pinching everything in sight. they even took the blind boxes from the pub one night. well loads of our crowd stopped staying there after that. was a shame because we had some great times and some of the locals used to look forwad to us staying every year. there is still a few stop but nothing like it used to be. good times gone.

bye the way im not a p***y, gypsey or traveler. i was a fella who kept and enjoyed horses. dont keep them anymore but still like to see a nice cob

[DIGZY 4]

johny eagle used to bend a steal bar over his head and then bend it back we bit crazy if u ask me

[DUCKWING 302]

When they are washing the horses in the river it's the nearest they get to haveing a wash themselve; there should be a flash flood and wash the stinking theiveing p***y's away, and before you all get on your high horse's (pardon the pun) i am from travelling stock just in the next few week's the crime wave around the area not just Appleby double's and anything that is'ny nailed down is gone, most of the folk that come in there old vardo's come from a council estate where they scrounge on benefit's, come to a horse fair and pretend to be romany desendant's, by "rocking the kecka" and "manging the chant". I have some good pal's that are genuine traveller's and don't go near.

 

WELL MATTI ,

 

THATS THE TRUEST WORDS WRITTEN ON APPLEBY FAIR

 

I GREW UP AROUND PIKEYS ..... HAWKERS AS WE CALL THEM AND TRAVELLERS , VERY , VERY FEW ARE WORTH TALKING TO ............. IAM AFRAID THE WAY THE CARRY THEMSELVES ON WHEN TRAVELLING TO THE FAIRS IS THE REASON PEOPLE IN THE COMMMUNITYS HATE THEM ........ HAVE A LOOK IN THE WEAR AND TEES AREA ON THE ROUTES USED TO GET TO THE FAIR EVERY GATE WAY IS BARRED WITH STONES OR HUGE PILES OF EARTH TO STOP THEM FROM PULLING ONTO FIELDS OR WASTE LAND

THE OLD WAYS HAVE GONE AND MOST OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION UNDER 40 ARE CAREER CRIMINALS OR DRUGS DEALERS .........................

THATS WHY THE PRICE OF THE THICK HORSES HAS SHOT UP , THE BIG MONEY MEN HAVE GOT INTO THEM AND ARE PUSHING UP PRICES ,

WE CALL THEM MIRACLE MEN ...... LOADS OF MONEY , BUT DONT WORK AND HAVENT GOT A BUSINESS WORKING FOR THEM ???????

 

MAYBE A BETTER WORD WOULD BE .... PARASITES

 

DUCKWING

[Butler 396]

DUCKWING

[Guest Lurcherbitch]

Ok maybe I wont bother

[polecat 1]

my first lurcher came from the fair 30 plus years ago best money my old man spent god bless there souls

[Guest WILF]

Duckwing.......I am surprised to see that you have not received the usual promises of violence and offers to meet in car parks ect.......still you only posted this yesterday so its early days

 

I looked at the pictures that were posted of this event last year and was dissapointed but not entirely surprised to see the river of this beautifull little town full of litter and rubbish.........people will take how they find and that says a lot to me

 

The romantic notion of the "romany" is just that, a romantic notion!........the same as it it for the notion of the majority of your so call salt of the earth working class folk........especially when you see some of the scum that inhabit parts of this country........

 

A damming portrait of modern Britain IMHO.......

 

This to will pass...........

[staffy-1 0]

A friend went up to appleby last year with family, he got a steel bar wrapped round his head .

[Guest Frank]

The romantic notion of the "romany" is just that, a romantic notion!........