In Art and Popular Culture
The painting Nottingham Goose Fair by Noel Denholm Davis (1910) is held by Nottingham City Museums and Galleries. The Nottingham-based artist Arthur Spooner painted The Goose Fair, Nottingham in 1926. The painting was sold at Christie's in 2004 and is now displayed in Nottingham Castle.
The book "English Journey" by J. B. Priestley contains an account of the author's visit to the Goose Fair in 1933.
The goose fair has been used in television programmes as well as in films such as The Woman for Joe and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning.
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