Going for a Song ; Property Mail Plans to Revive Scarborough's Ancient Fair Are Making the Yorkshire Seaside Town a Potential Property Hotspot, Reports Nigel Lewis
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SCARBOROUGH leapt to international fame in 1967 when pop duo Simon and Garfunkel asked 'Are you going to Scarborough Fair?' in one of their songs for the film The Graduate.
But while the name was on millions of people's lips around the world, the town was in decline along with the rest of Britain's fading seaside resorts as Britons packed their bags for Spain - and anyway, Scarborough's fair hadn't been staged in almost 200 years.See the full content of this document
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Going for a Song ; Property Mail Plans to Revive Scarborough's Ancient Fair Are Making the Yorkshire Seaside Town a Potential Property Hotspot, Reports Nigel Lewis
Yet today things are really looking up.
This week, the town's councillors gave the green light to one of the greatest revival attempts in our history when they agreed to restart the annual fair.It began in 1253 and ran for more than 530 years until 1788 and, accord...See the full content of this document
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