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 5 Collections and/or Records:
Blackpool Tower Circus Posters, c1930 - 1990
Posters for Blackpool Tower Circus including shows by Knie's Circus, Circus Krone, Circus Schumann, Bertram Mills Circus, Robert Brothers Circus and performances by Charlie Cairoli, Doddles, Coco the Clown, The Rosaires, Lilly Yokoi, Alfred Court, Vojtek Trubka, The Great Wallendas and Mary Chipperfield among others.
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
Posters, c1800 - 2011
A wide range of British and international circus and menagerie posters ranging from the 19th to the 21st century including Astley's Amphitheatre, Pablo Fanque, Polito, Bostock and Wombwell, Ducrow, Cooke, Hengler, Sanger, Smart, Gerry Cottle, Bertram Mills, Chipperfield's, Robert Brothers, Fossett, Blackpool Tower, Billy Russell, Belle Vue, Great Yarmouth Hippodrome, Austen Brothers and many more.
Programmes, c1800 - 2019
A collection of mainly British and international circus programmes and some variety and music hall programmes containing circus acts.
Russian State Circus Poster, c1930 - 1990
Peter Jay, The Imperial Russian State Circus, All New Superdome Circus at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. 6th Jul to 29th October. Colour illustration of a strongman riding an elephant, background purple and pink, type blue, yellow and white.