The North East Film Archive is one of a network of regional film archives established to collect, preserve and show film made in, or about the North East of England. Our collections are non-fiction, and date from the early 1900s to the present day, providing a rich record of life in the region over the 20th century. Many of our films are available to watch, free of charge, on our website.
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Game Fair at Raby Castle
Exactly what it was like to attend a big fair in early 1970s, with police directing traffic and folk wandering around the marquees; and a treat for fans of classic cars of that time.
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Overview
There is a very large turnout at Lord Barnard's home of Raby Castle, for what is possibly one of the earlier examples of a game fair. It seems to take an age for all the cars to make their way onto the estate, but then it is soon on to the field where the fair is hosting the many country sports being promoted, with visitors inspecting the various items for sale, such as the shotguns.
The 14th century Raby Castle is an appropriate venue for a game fair, with its 200 acres of deer park. Shooting and hunting were once the preserve of the wealthy elite, but game shooting declined sharply in the interwar years. In the 1950s shooting game rapidly expanded, the number of game licenses sharply increased, as wider sections of the population took up shooting. Game fairs are a late twentieth century invention of the Country Landowners Association, established in 1907 (since 2000, the Country Land and Business Association), the first one taking place in 1958.
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