Jay, Peter, Born 1944
Dates
- Existence: Born 29 January 1944
Biography
Peter Jay born 29 January 1944 in Southgate, North London, is a musician and circus showman best known for being the owner of the iconic Great Yarmouth Hippodrome and forming sixties band Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers, which toured with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
Peter is the son of Jack Jay, who owned the Windmill Theatre as well as several cinemas and nightclubs in Great Yarmouth. In the late 1970s, father and son acquired the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome and restored it as a theatre and circus venue. They managed the Hippodrome together until Jack’s death in 1985, when Peter took sole ownership.
Peter also leased another iconic cirucs building in England int he 1980s, the Blackpool Tower, which he managed briefly.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Circus Friends Association Collection
This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses
Cyril Critchlow Collection
Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus Programme, 1992
Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Colour photograph of circus ring and curtain with neon sign above reading Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus and performers waiving underneath on the front cover, inside introduction, colour photographs of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 8p.p.
Programmes, c1800 - 2019
A collection of mainly British and international circus programmes and some variety and music hall programmes containing circus acts.