Show original world s fair world a expositions may be said to be lineal descendants of the annual fair at Stour stourbridge bridge near cambridge braland which it Is claimed was in by the rebel ro man emperor of britain on sept I 1 iv A D it certainly flourished as early as this and british commerce la Is believed to have had its first real boom in consequence of the reports carried to the continent by foreign traders who flocked to this world s fair about a thousand years later Stour stourbridge bridge fair got a new lease of 0 life from king xing john for the benefit of a leper hospital and for eight centar lea les or more it wag was the greatest fair in england |