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Kings Lynn Mart 2012
Teenagers share a light at King's Lynn Mart, Norfolk.
First held in 1204 by a decree of King John and disrupted only by the occasional outbreak of civil war or bubonic plague, the King’s Lynn Mart is the UK’s oldest continuous fair. During its heyday the Mart was at the cutting edge of technology when in 1897 it became the first place the first to show moving film to a paying public. Despite its continuing popularity with the people of the town the council have come to regard the Mart as an inconvenience as it disrupts their their ambition to monetise every inch of tarmac. They would dearly like to see it relocated out of town, but sadly for them a 800 year old decree from a long dead king still carries more weight in law than the opinion of local government officials. The Mart stays, no longer at the cutting of technology but a place where anxious teenagers got to look and be looked at and the grumpy showmen with their dubious ride-hands try to scratch a living in the winter months.
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