Bramwell Taylor, John, c1912 - 2003
Biography
John Bramwell Taylor was a Yorkshireman who migrated to the South East of England during the 1930s. John Bramwell Taylor spent his working life as a porter at the Travellers’ Club in London and spent all his free time and money collecting printed ephemera.
Very well known to dealers and collectors of ephemera John had a deep and abiding knowledge of early printing history. He collected in all areas and the material that is now in the National Fairground Archive is only one small aspect of his Collection.
John Bramwell Taylor died in Notting Hill London in 2003 and his large and extensive Collection was split on his death.
Found in 370 Collections and/or Records:
Venice Preserved Handbill, 18 December 1815
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Also ‘Magpie or the Maid’.
Venus Attiring Handbill, 1847
Venus Attiring at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. 'Modelled from life' prior to its taking to Rome to be sculpted in marble. Thought to have been printed by Gunn, Hand Court, Holborn.
Venus Rising from the Sea Handbill, c1846
Venus Rising from the Sea, at Hall of Rome, Windmill Street, Haymarket. 'New female model who will personate Venus Rising from the sea'. Printed by J.W. Peel’s Steam Press, 74, New Cut, Lambeth, opposite the Victoria Theatre.
Voice and Instrumental Concert Handbill, 1 - 28 February 1858
Concert at Café Chantant, Restaurant de l'Univers. French themed café and concert. Printed by Grant, 14 Orange Street, Bloomsbury Square.
West London and Earl’s Court Handbills, 1831 - 1889
Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at West London and Earl’s Court.
Wonderful Mechanism, The Exeter Clock Handbill, c1825
Wonderful Mechanism, The Exeter Clock at Cosmorama Rooms. 'Most perfect piece of mechanism in the world'. Weighing half ton, 10ft High and 5 ft Wide.Printed by E. and J. Thomas, Printers, Exeter Street, Strand.
Wonders Will Never Cease Handbill, 1819 - 1820
The English Giant, Smallest Man in the World and The English Giantess. Shown around the UK in a travelling Pavilion “an opportunity...of seeing a gratifying contrast between a dwarf and giants” a giant, small man and a giantess who were exhibited around the UK. Printed by C. Pick, Feasegate, York.
Works in Sculpture Handbill, 1831
Mr Laurence Macdonald at 801 and 802 Pall Mall. Group of sculptures/busts.
World's Fair!! Christmas and New Year’s Carnival Handbill, 22 December 1883
Bostock and Wombwell’s Splendid Menagerie at Royal Agricultural Hall. World Famed Temple of the Dram. Printed by Geo. Stevens, Steam Printer, 87 Commercial Road, E., and Adelaide Buildings, London Bridge, 2pp.
W.S Woodin's Olio of Oddities Handbill, c1856
W.S Woodin's Olio of Oddities at Polygraphic Hall, King William Street, Charing Cross. Songs and impersonations.
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- Acrobats 4
- Aerialists 5
- Amusement rides 4
- Animals 56
- Archaeology 9
- Art 63
- Botany 4
- Circus 13
- Comedians 25
- Conjoined twins 9
- Dance 9
- Dwarfs (Persons) 43
- Engineering 13
- Exhibitions 247
- Fairs 2
- Family 5
- Fasting 4
- Fat people 4
- Fortune-tellers 4
- Freak shows 6
- Genealogy 3
- Giants 17
- Glass 7
- Gymnasts 4
- Hypnotists 4
- Jugglers 3
- Magic 10
- Medicine 9
- Menageries 7
- Minstrel shows 4
- Motion pictures 11
- Music-halls 4
- Musical performances 56
- Optical illusions 24
- Pantomime 9
- Performers 119
- Pleasure gardens 6
- Poetry 8
- Scientists 2
- Sideshows 9
- Singing 6
- Strong men 4
- Strong women 4
- Stunt performers 4
- Tableaux vivants 16
- Theatre 34
- Travel 4
- Variety 17
- Ventriloquists 4
- Waxworks 17
- Wild west 8
- Wrestling 4
- Zoos 5 + ∧ less