Pingle Fields Recreation Ground (Nuneaton)

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  MAL1 (guest)

  This ground will forever be synonymous with funfairs in the late seventies till the mid-nineties. My mother bought me and my brothers here through the park, via the tunnels under the banks of the elevated train tracks. We would shout in the claustrophobic tunnels eager to hear the echoes of our awestruck voices. Back then the attractions of the funfair were simple: a train with carts that ran in a loop, a traditional carousel, a futuristic vehicle carousel, arcade machines, the big wheel and cups and saucers. No doubt I am leaving other attractions out but I remember chomping on either a chocolate or toffee apple, or the wisps of candy floss on a stick. The memories are etched in the confines of my nostalgic brain like cobweb-ridden books in a library, but I do cherish them.

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