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Readers' favourite photographs, songs and recipesSnapshot: All the fun of the fairground As a child growing up in the 1950s, I dreamed of living on a fairground as my mother had done. But she was adamant that no child of hers would have such a life. For her, the war years as a child had not been the best of her life and she wanted so much more for me and my siblings. Still, she was drawn to the sound of the fair and shared many nostalgic stories with me: the roll a penny stall where she helped o...

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