Butterwick Hospice Fair on Norton Green. 2002. Photographs courtesy of Mr Robert Harbron. 
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Butterwick Hospice Fair on Norton Green. 2002. Photographs courtesy of Mr Robert Harbron.
Butterwick Fair The Green 2002. “The Happy Wanderer” Puppets have attended the J.B Fair since its inception in 1987, helping to raise many thousands of pounds. From Diary:- Monday 6th May 2004. A cold N”e wind, but on the Green the occasional sunshine in the arena its warm. 9.15 by car to The Green, Park-up in our usual pitch N.E corner, setting up organ and puppets by 10-00. Inflated slide and Castle to our right and sweet smelling candy-floss stall to the left outer edge of the Green with its rows of novelty, gift and plant stalls. A set of roundabouts and swings is ready. When the Fair is opened 11.00 by Mayor and Mary Butterwick, followed by a display of the “Belaires” Jazz-Band in the main arena. About 12.30 a yellow “Sea-King; helicopter flys low over the Green with the winch-man waving to the crowd below. Afternoon displays by Judo/Karate teams, dog agility ,Morris Men and the highlight a number of pitched battle”s by the Teeside Saxon-Viking re-enactment Group. The cafe in com centre ran out of buns and cakes till supplies arrived from Teesside Park. Thousands there again it seems to get more popular every year.