Pulham Market Carnival and Fair
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Pulham Market villagers are brought together for the annual carnival and fair, with an array of colourful costumes on display on this Saturday afternoon in September 1980.
On a sunny yet blustery day in South Norfolk the villagers of Pulham Market hold their annual carnival and fair, with a parade of colourful carnival floats and fancy dress inspired by the year’s theme of ‘songs’. There are tributes to ‘Elvis’ and ‘Cliff’, cross-dressers, and a junior marching band. The community gather on the village green for a Saturday afternoon of games, stalls, and prize-giving.
This footage does feature a fancy dress participant blacking-up. Such a racially insensitive representation would not be acceptable today, however one must presume at the time it was merely a misjudged pun of a song’s title ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’, which was an incredibly popular chart-topping hit at the time of the film’s making.