Show original worlds fair world s expositions may be said to be lineal descendants ol 01 the annual fair at near cambridge edeland which it Is claimed was in by the rebel man emperor of britain on sept 19 A D it certainly flourished is early as this and british commerce Is believed to have bad its first real boom in consequence 0 the reports carried to the continent by foreign traders who flocked to this world a fair about a thousand years later fair got a new lease of life from king john tor the benefit ot a leper hospital and for eight centar les or more it was the greatest fair la england |