Box #23438
Hull Fair 
| Planter | The Yorkshire Tortoise (owner)    |
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| Planted | October 11, 2006 |
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| Name | | Last Found |
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| 1. | Hull Fair by The Yorkshire Tortoise | retired | Feb 17, 2007 |
Clue
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary where does your garden grow? Go down to the shells, then with these in sight, sit and speak with the little gentleman. When he moves he will reveal the location of a letterbox.
This box was planted as a tribute to The Daleswoman, who has been letterboxing since the early 1990's. Although now 80, she is still letterboxing, although mainly through drive-bys and hitchhikers these days.
Ink colours needed
Red
Additional Information
The two best things in Kingston Upon Hull, the children will tell you, are Christmas and the annual fair held in the second week of October for eight days. This carnival of merriment is the largest travelling fair in Europe and one of the oldest, celebrating its seven hundred anniversary in 1993.
The first charter granting permission for a Fair to be held (March 9th to 23rd) in the locality of Hull
was granted in 1278.
In 1888 Hull Fair moved to its present home on Walton Street, with the original site doubling in size in 1906 to sixteen acres, making it the largest fair in England at that time and has remained so to this day.
N.B.
Always obey the English Code of Conduct to keep the name of Letterboxing free of criticism.
ER5
