One thing we can't beat is the weather. Yarm fair in North Yorkshire is one of our best events. Last year was an exceptionally good year for us, this year it never stopped raining on Saturday night, cutting our turnover by about 60 percent.
The safety record at Yarm is excellent, (like most funfairs, although the downmarket tabloids like to think differently). This year however there was one small incident. A member of staff on one of the adult rides (not ours I hasten to add), was cleaning a generator down when he inadvertantly touched the wire on a 12volt battery. The small and totally harmless tingle he felt so alarmed him he jumped backwards and promptly fell out of the vehicle he was working in. This wouldn't have been too bad, but someone had left a tyre on the ground right where he landed, he succeeded in falling over this and knocking himself out. Thankfully his pride was more injured than anything else and he was back in action that evening with a only a slight headache and a severely bruised ego.
The safety record at Yarm is excellent, (like most funfairs, although the downmarket tabloids like to think differently). This year however there was one small incident. A member of staff on one of the adult rides (not ours I hasten to add), was cleaning a generator down when he inadvertantly touched the wire on a 12volt battery. The small and totally harmless tingle he felt so alarmed him he jumped backwards and promptly fell out of the vehicle he was working in. This wouldn't have been too bad, but someone had left a tyre on the ground right where he landed, he succeeded in falling over this and knocking himself out. Thankfully his pride was more injured than anything else and he was back in action that evening with a only a slight headache and a severely bruised ego.