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A Cake in Danger, 20 April 1806
Item — Box LF100 Box 1: Series LF100
Reference code: LF100/21
Scope and Contents
Engraving (coloured impression). A night scene in a London street. A countryman responds to the advances of two young prostitutes, one of whom takes a handkerchief from his coat-pocket. They are lit by the lantern hanging in front of a watchman’s box, within which the aged watchman sleeps, leaning his arms on the half-door. Behind, in shadow, are the houses. Below the title: 'Careful Observers, studious of the Town, Shun the Misfortunes that disgrace the Crown. Gay’s Trivia.' Cake = fool,...
Dates:
20 April 1806
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Cat in Pattens, 1812
Item — Box LF100 Box 1: Series LF100
Reference code: LF100/54
Scope and Contents
Engraving (coloured impression). An old woman, wearing pattens, walks preceded by a small poodle, clipped in an exaggeration of the French manner, and followed by a foot-boy in livery, who holds on a skewer a lump of 'Cat’s Meat'. He carries an umbrella under his arm. Her dress is blown back against her skinny form; her hands are in a large muff, and she wears a fur tippet over a tight bodice defining shoulders. She walks with a fixed stare, not looking at a half-naked beggar (right) with a...
Dates:
1812
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Catalogue of Dioramic Tableaux Handbill, 22 June 1835
Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.45
Scope and Contents
George Robin's Auction at Cosmorama Rooms. Auction of 'Five splendid representations forming a series of historical Dioramic Tableaux of the interior of the Houses of Lords & Commons, prior to the Conflagration', 6pp.
Dates:
22 June 1835
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
A Catamaran, or an Old Maid's Nursery, 1 March 1811
Item — Box LF100 Box 1: Series LF100
Reference code: LF100/45
Scope and Contents
An old hag leans back in an armchair of antique pattern; she is beset with cats which swarm round her, and turns her head with a macabre smile to kiss one on the mouth; her left hand rests on a cat standing on the table beside her. Two sit in her lap, another scrambles up her skirts. On a cushion on the floor are two large cats and two kittens; two others lap from a bowl. Others scramble and fight on the back of her chair. A pretty young woman stands (right) holding a cat which is tightly...
Dates:
1 March 1811
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A celebration between Past and Future, 'Over the Top', 1976
Item — Box Action Space Box 66: Series 426/49
Reference code: 426/49/32
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Posters promoting performances, workshops and projects by Action Space across different periods.
Dates:
1976
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Central Circus Site Monograph, c1930 - 1999
Item
Reference code: 178B20.1
Scope and Contents
Ohmy by Cyril Critchlow. A Central Circus Site, Chapter 11. Unpublished monograph with research notes. Typescript & Manuscript, 4p.p.
Dates:
c1930 - 1999
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
A Chapter of Accidents and Acrobatic Antics Film, c1945 - 1960
Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 10: Series 178D5
Reference code: 178D5.78
Scope and Contents
9.5mm, Actina. 400 feet, 16 minutes long. Black and white, silent. USA. 2 Films of 200ft in length. 'A Chapter of Accidents' features 'The Three Disgraces'. 'Acrobatic Antics' features James and George, The Hallroom Boys. Noel Drewe states on box: "Very popular twosome on 9.5mm. I don't know of their work on any other". Supplied by C. W. Cramp.
Dates:
c1945 - 1960
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
A Charm For A Democracy, Reviewed, Analysed, and Destroyed Jany 1st 1799 To The Confusion Of Its Affiliated Friends, 1 February 1799
Item — Box LF104/5 Box 1: Series LF104/5
Reference code: LF104/5/61
Scope and Contents
Artist: Thomas Rowlandson. Published: John Wright. From the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', ii, frontispiece. The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed:'Eye of Straw and toe of Cade
Tylers bow and Kosiuskos blade
Russels liver tongue of cur
Norfolks boldness Foxs fur
Add thereto a tygers...
Dates:
1 February 1799
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Charm For A Democracy, Reviewed, Analysed, and Destroyed Jany 1st 1799 To The Confusion Of Its Affiliated Friends, 1 February 1799
Item — Box LF104/5 Box 1: Series LF104/5
Reference code: LF104/5/62
Scope and Contents
Artist: Thomas Rowlandson. Published: John Wright. From the 'Anti-Jacobin Review', ii, frontispiece. The interior of the 'Cave of Despair', with demons put to flight by a ray of divine light from the letters 'I A H' in a triangle in the upper left corner of the design. Three wizards (right) in monkish robes tend a boiling cauldron inscribed:'Eye of Straw and toe of Cade
Tylers bow and Kosiuskos blade
Russels liver tongue of cur
Norfolks boldness Foxs fur
Add thereto a tygers...
Dates:
1 February 1799
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Christmas Piece - The Christmas Lads, Keynsham Play Text, c1970 - 1987
Item — Box Southport Mummers Collection Box 4
Reference code: 448/4/31
Scope and Contents
From the File:
Texts and scripts of the plays performed by the Southport Mummers.
Dates:
c1970 - 1987
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Coat of Arms for a Stamp on Income, 20 December 1798
Item — Box LF104/5 Box 1: Series LF104/5
Reference code: LF104/5/45
Scope and Contents
Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: S. W. Fores. A lion with the head of Pitt and a unicorn with that of Dundas are the supporters of an escutcheon which frames a design of a family seated at dinner but interrupted by a tax-collector (left). He carries off a large pudding, saying, "Tax on Income", a small slice only being left on the dish, to the dismay of husband, wife, and three children. Pitt says: "Give all thou cans't \ And let me dream the rest;" Dundas: "Man wants but little here...
Dates:
20 December 1798
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Cold Season, 12 February 1799
Item — Box LF104/5 Box 1: Series LF104/5
Reference code: LF104/5/80
Scope and Contents
Artist: Isaac Cruikshank. Published: Laurie and Whittle. A street scene in snow. A cook's boy has fallen, and the dishes from the tray on his head (a sucking-pig) slide to the ground. A man with skates muffled in great-coat and two ladies holding muffs to their faces hasten towards the spectator; others hurry along in back view. The nearest house is a 'Lottery office', a man comes out holding a ticket '5000 ... Blank'. In the background two men shovel snow from the roof of a high house onto...
Dates:
12 February 1799
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A collection of historic circus posters from the Arthur Fenwick collection, Tyne & Wear Archives made public online for First Time! Handbill, 2013
Item
Reference code: 178T35.1
Scope and Contents
Chipperfields Circus and Menagerie. Newcastle September 8th to September 20th. Circus Central.
Dates:
2013
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
A collection of historic circus posters from the Arthur Fenwick collection, Tyne & Wear Archives made public online for First Time! Handbill, 2013
Item
Reference code: 178T35.2
Scope and Contents
Chipperfields Circus and Menagerie. Newcastle September 8th to September 20th. Circus Central.
Dates:
2013
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
A Collier's Friday Night Programme, 1970
Item — Box Sheffield Theatres Collection Box 2: Series PE 28/1; Series PE 28/2; Series PE 28/3; Series PE 28/4
Reference code: PE 28/1/1970/3
Scope and Contents
Written by D. H. Lawrence and directed by John Pickles. Performed on Wednesday 8 April 1970, Monday 13 to Saturday 18 April and Monday 20 to Saturday 22 April 1970.
Dates:
1970
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Concise Explanation of the Convention Bills!!, 23 December 1795
Item — Box LF104/3 Box 1: Series LF104/3
Reference code: LF104/3/59
Scope and Contents
Published: S. W. Fores. A lean Frenchman, probably an emigre, and a fat Englishman face each other in profile. The Frenchman (left), who has a long thin queue, ruffled shirt, and wears a spencer over his coat, leans on a tasselled cane, and says with raised forefinger, 'Pray Monsieur what be de meaning of theese Convention Bills?' The shorter Englishman, who is very obese and wears clerical bands, his stick under his arm, his hand thrust in the pocket of his old-fashioned waistcoat, looks up...
Dates:
23 December 1795
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper, 18 June 1792
Item — Box LF104/2 Box 1: Series LF104/2
Reference code: LF104/2/26
Scope and Contents
Stipple (coloured impression). George III (T. Q. L.) stands in profile to the left, nearsightedly examining an oval miniature of Oliver Cromwell by the light of a candle held in his left hand. The H. L., looking to the right, in arour, probably derives from the pl. after Cooper in Mechell's ed. of Rapain's 'History', 1733. The candlestick is of massive plate holding a candle-end supported on a save-all. The King is only slightly caricatured, but his receding forehead and chin and open mouth...
Dates:
18 June 1792
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A cup final souvenir edition of the Manchester Evening Chronicle, 23 April 1958
File — Box Dewhurst Papers Box 61
Reference code: 431/4/60/2
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Material relating to 'When You Put on a Red Shirt', specifically the Munich Air Disaster, published by Yellow Jersey Press, 2009.
Dates:
23 April 1958
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Programme, 1970
Item — Box Sheffield Theatres Collection Box 2: Series PE 28/1; Series PE 28/2; Series PE 28/3; Series PE 28/4
Reference code: PE 28/1/1970/2
Scope and Contents
Written by Peter Nichols and directed by Paul Hellyer. Performed on Wednesday 25 March to Saturday 4 April and Tuesday 23 to Saturday 25 April 1970.
Dates:
1970
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives
A Day to Remember by Arthur Wiles, 1990
Item — Box Arthur Markham Box 2: Series 268/25; Series 268/26; Series 268/27; Series 268/28; Series 268/29
Reference code: 268/26/7
Scope and Contents
'A Day to Remember' by Arthur Wiles was entered in the 1990 competition. The author describes his early life, and then his first day working in the mine aged fourteen. He was then encouraged to train to become an underground engineer, retiring in 1980.
Dates:
1990
Found in:
Special Collections and Archives