I've just been talking to me Mum on the 'phone. She mentioned this too. Does anyone know why? I'll ask my show people friends at the weekend.

Oh! Just read your post properly. I just thought that it was missing a year. Finished?

Joe, that was the impression I got from the news that it was finished for good. Something to do with the show folk and rental of the land.  I'll see if I can google and glean more information.

No more!!!

but .... i aint ever been

Joe, I found this on the Ronnie Gill live website, but it gives the impression that its just this year.  But the news definitely said cancelled for good.

 

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk...r-newcastles-1750429

Just do what I did when I was a little girl and we never got to go.  I used to stand in the kitchen with my nightie pulled up over my head and get my sister to spin me as fast as she could, then eat a minging hot dog next to a running engine. Sorted 

And for any non NE forum friends who have no idea what I'm talking about, it's this.

 

http://www.newcastle-hoppings.co.uk/

nooooo!!! what happened?!

It's something to do with the show people and rental of the field.

 

I'm sad that the tradition is over, but glad that I didn't have to spend a months mortgage on buns stuffed with a mush of lips, hooves and arseholes.

 

But hey, I can always relive it, by lifting my nightie over my head and getting Mr C to spin me around.  (Actually that sounds like Friday night to me) 

The guy on the news let slip about plans for a new show! Sounds to me like they've made excuses to end it so they can profit from a new venture Generations of families have enjoyed going to the hoppings ever year, it's sad to see it end

One also associates the smell of moth balls, diesel, and vinegar, but of course I'm a tad older than youse. As an alternative, do try the DOM in Hamburg.

RUmours abound of course.

On TV last night it said there are suggestions the fair (or is it fayre?) could move to Sunderland!!

And a new "Newcastle Experience" will take place on the moor !!!

 

its all money and business and nothing to do with 'what's best for the people of the North East"

Ooh that's a shame.

 

I must confess to not knowing what 'The Hoppings' are.

 

My experience of 'Hopping' is very different from that - it was fun all the same (on a short visit).

Move it to Sunderland 

 

Soozy, your hopping was that collecting the hops for beer making?

That sounds like Goose fair here

Yes ..........my nan used to go for her 'holiday' every year and take my cousin with her. He used to get out of weeks of school (as did a lot of kids) - we used to visit for the day a few times in the school holidays. TBH a day was enough - the huts and open fires were kind of fun and there was great 'cameraderie' I knew most of the other Hoppers as they were all local.

 

The toilets used to make me heave though - as I say - exciting for the day.

Sounds similar to what we used to do as a family in the October half term, although we were picking potatoes not hops.

I absolutely hated potato picking. It was very well paid but I put my bad back down to it.

oh.. I remember tattie picking in the holidays - and that lovely feeling when you go to pick one and it's rotten and your fingers go right through it