Hiring fairs, also called statute or mop fairs, were regular events in pre-modern Great Britain and Ireland where labourers were hired for fixed terms...

their luck with in-person job fairs. Hiring and mop fairs JACQUELYN SMITH . 11 tips to get something useful out of a job fair . http://www.businessinsider...

Michaelmas hiring and mop fairs moved to 10 October and became known as Old Michaelmas Day. Christmas Day was still celebrated on 25 December and an 'Old...

(1929). Another element is the English tradition of the rural hiring fairs or mop fairs which sometimes took place around the time of year in the spring...

annual fairs – a livestock fair in the spring, and a hiring fair or Mop fair at Michaelmas. Nearby Marlborough's tradition of holding one Mop each side...

stool or pail and housemaids held brooms or mops, this is why some hiring fairs were known as mop fairs. Employers would look them over and, if they were...

hold markets and fairs at Kings Norton. Both the original fairs and the market eventually fell into disuse. At some later date, a mop fair began to be...

the town; and Michaelmas Day (29 September) a quarter day, the date for the election of town officials, and the day when hiring or mop fairs were held...

over two weekends in October, as the "big mop" and "little mop" fairs. In 2014 these were set for 3–4 and 17–18 October. From 1986 a music festival was...

Kidder as Busy Bee, the store manager Diona Elise Burnett as Magicart and Steve the Mop Lyric Lewis as Baker Taleia Gilliam as Shelfie Katie Leclerc as herself...