
2011 – What The Bo’ness Fair Means To Me (Erin McBride)
Pride… Pride is what the Bo’ness Fair means to me. It started as

Pride… Pride is what the Bo’ness Fair means to me. It started as

When I was a wee girl, I became aware at an early age

I remember the morning we were going to vote, it was a Thursday

It’s a real honour to be asked for input into the design of

As in many industrial towns, when the forming of brass bands came into

When I was invited to write an article for this years Fair Programme,

This is probably a rather emotive subject to write about in the Fair

Over the years we all recall Fairs that have a special meaning to

“BO’NESS IS ITS PEOPLE, AND ITS PEOPLE ARE BO’NESS”. So wrote a good

BEING a rare breed of outsider, the lesser common southerner, moving to a