[Mr Daniel Day, 1683-1767, a ‘block and pump maker, of the parish of St John, Wapping’, founded the Fairlop fair]

 Long previous to Mr Day’s exit Fairlop fair was known all over Essex, and the adjoining counties ; and naturally the inhabitants of Wapping, and the eastern parts of London, could not be ignorant of it, consequently it was attended by a vast concourse of people. The engine-makers, pump-makers, and block-makers of Wapping, and other places contiguous to the river, a few years before Mr Day’s death [1767], to the amount of about thirty of forty, every year went to the fair in a boat made of one piece of entire fir, covered with an awning, mounted on a coach-carriage, drawn by six horses with flags, streamers, and pendants flying, and a band of music, attended by a great many persons on horseback, in carriages, and on foot.  This custom, on the first Friday in every July, has been successfully observed to this time [1840s] in compliment, and commemoration of their old friend and “brother chip” to whose pious memory they never fail to drink […] [T]he mirth and festivity, gypsying, archery, donkey-riding, swinging, &c. are still to be witnessed to a great extent. Long may Fairlop’s Friday continue to be joyously looked forward to by all as “the good Day’s” day of “fun and jollity !”