Battersea Fun Fair

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Battersea Fun Fair

Postby Wall of Death » 04 Apr 2014, 03:10

I worked at BFF from 1968 till about 1973..................anybody else?
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Re: Battersea Fun Fair

Postby ex harry gray » 28 Apr 2014, 20:18

yep I worked for harry gray and moved with him to southend when Battersea closed, best days of my life.
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Re: Battersea Fun Fair

Postby Jonnydaz53 » 28 Dec 2015, 12:17

Hi dave just to let you know i have sent you a private message as the man you talked about who worked for Harry Before you John Di Benedetto is my dad.
He has very fond memories of this time and often qoutes it as "the best period of his life"

Regards John Jnr
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Re: Battersea Fun Fair

Postby steven mills » 30 May 2018, 19:45

ex harry gray wrote:yep I worked for harry gray and moved with him to southend when Battersea closed, best days of my life.


harry mate do tell more if ya like mate about when ya worked for harry gray :D :D :D :D :D :D :D 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
just wondering harry mate did ya by any chance work on harry gray skid
skid junkie/ press the peddle to skid the car
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Re: Battersea Fun Fair

Postby ex harry gray » 31 May 2018, 10:35

hi steven, i mainly worked on the speedway and operated the big wheel weekdays when needed, weekends a old black man called darky, a black man called ian a guy called mustafa and another old guy called ginger worked on the skid, as i said i worked on the speedway fulltime and was foreman the last year of battersea when the old foreman john di benedetto brought the ghost train off botton bro's.
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