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Headline: Dorset's Traditional Pack Monday Fair

Caption: These amazing long exposure shots taken Sunday (14 Oct) show Sherborne Pack Monday Fun Fair in Sherborne, Dorset. Pack Monday Fair is an annual street fair which traditionally starts on the Monday following 10 October (Old Michaelmas Day). Originally an agricultural fair, it is now devoted to stalls, sideshows and a funfair. According to one local tradition, set out in William Hone’s Every Day Book of 1826, the fair and its noisy announcement originated at the completion of the building of Sherborne Abbey when the workmen ‘packed up’ their tools and “held a fair or wake, in the churchyard, blowing cows' horns in their rejoicing”. Photographer Paul Dibben says: "The shots were taken using a long exposure causing the rotating lights on the rides to paint elaborate patterns in the darkness. The shots were taken Sunday (14 Oct) night as the Funfair runs over the weekend as a lead up to the street fair."

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