Saturday, September 11, 2021
Frome Cheese Show 1955
It's the day today of the Frome show more commonly called the Cheese show. An agricultural show with tents displaying cheese hence the name. Not now but it used to be a big day in the calendar of North Somerset and school children used to get the day off. Culmination of the week was the Carnival and the fair would be in town during the week too. Saturday night at the fair after the Carnival was a wild time. Heady stuff for the small market town. I worked on a stall at the Cheese show one year. Big mistake. Got about a quid. It was next door to a set up demonstrating electric organs and they played the same tune all day. It was torture.