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Business records encompassing Michelle's role as the Education Officer for the Showmen's Guild, the education of children showmen and the Children's Benevolent Fund competition.

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Showmen children education materials including learning cards, parent's education record, educational booklets, education contactsfor travelling families, parent's views of distance learning, Devon curriculum advice, early years material, professional skills for fairground enterpreneurs vocational GCSEs document, Young LGV driver scheme, a copy of Traveller's Times and a bag for parents to keep their children's educational records.

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Records related to the Children's Benevolent Fund fundraising campaign containing the children's challenge booklet, children's competition entries, some correspondence, poems and samples of blank certificates. Also contains a donations collection bucket.

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Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.

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Contains a copy of the Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960, the response from the government to the ninth report of the committee: travelling fairs, the traveller law reform bill, press notices, correspondence, memorandums and planning documents.

Scope and Contents Contains correspondence and proposals for improving the education of children showmen, education liaison's reports, showmen child counts, Showmen's depots census reports, correspondence regarding the Showmen's Guild and World's Fair competition, documents regading the proposed changes in education funding, survey log sheet, ELO expense account sheet, memorandums by the European Federation for the Edcation of Children of the Occupational Travellers and the National Association of the Teachers...

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Article for the World's Fair about the state of education of young showpeople by Michelle Leonard, includes photographs. Typescript with handwritten annotations, 7pp. And five colour photographs showing the education liaison officer, a teaching bus and children at a lesson.

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A family history written by Michelle Leonard about the Leonard and Day families in circus, menageries and the fairground.

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Survey conducted by the Showmen's Guild through Michelle Leonard in partnership with Ken Marks University of Sheffield department of Educational Studies, about the education of fairground children. Includes a blank survey of the distance learning travel pattern survey, a Showpeople's depot map, a descprtion of the project, a questionner, a report and project payment information.

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Paper describing the parameters of the procedures for a profiling exercise.

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Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.

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Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.

Scope and Contents Personal business records including correspondence between Michelle Leonard and the Showmen's Guild, the University of Sheffield and other education officers, invitations to the launch of EFECOT's (European Federation for the Education of the Children of Occupational Travellers) CD and an special event for A Centure of Fairground Memories, information about becoming an Education Liaison Officer for the Guild, correspondence relating to expenses and meetings, paperwork regarding Michelle's...

Scope and Contents Colour and black and white photographs of fairground rides, transport and showmen, including images showing showmen preparing to go to Dubay at Southampton docs including Edward Ayres' lorries, Stevens rides, Arthur Price's Superbob, Theodor Whytt's Tip Top, Studt's Dodgems, Edward and Mandy Ayres (178C140.24), Jock painting (178C140.32), Littlewood's lorry, Tim Barker painting a ghost train at Shedfreld yard in Southampton, Jason Herbert in Dorsert, Edward Danter's Tagada in Boscombe, John...

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Black and white photographs of fairground rides taken by Michelle Leonard.

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Colour photographs showing rides and showmen taken by Michelle Leonard for the World's Fair newspaper.

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Contains research about fairground children education and other topics related to the fairground Showmen community by Michelle Leonard conducted for the Showmen's Guild, The University of Sheffield and the UK government and articles written for the World's Fair newspaper.

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Completed questionnaires describing family structure and site requirements.