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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 Unpublished monograph with research notes.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

A Day With Paul Le Royer Film, c1945 - 1990

Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 25: Series 178D5

Reference code: 178D5.238

Scope and Contents

16mm. Calamy Productions. Black and white with sound. Commercial film.

Dates: c1945 - 1990

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

A Day with Paul Le Royer Film, c1950 - 1959

Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 29: Series 178D5

Reference code: 178D5.322

Scope and Contents

16mm, Pathe. 300 Feet. Film about a French animal keeper and trainer.

Dates: c1950 - 1959

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

A Day with Paul Le Royer Film, c1945 - 1960

Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 10: Series 178D5

Reference code: 178D5.73

Scope and Contents

9.5mm, Paillard, Calamy Productions. 300 feet, 12 minutes long. Black and white, silent. Includes French circus. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Dates: c1945 - 1960

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

A Day with Paul Le Royer Film, c1945 - 1990

Item — Box Noel Drewe Box 19: Series 178D5

Reference code: 178D5.177

Scope and Contents

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 16mm, Cecol. Calami Productions. 256 feet. Black and white, silent.

Dates: c1945 - 1990

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

A Debt Repaid by Kenneth T. France, 1991

Item — Box Arthur Markham Box 2: Series 268/25; Series 268/26; Series 268/27; Series 268/28; Series 268/29

Reference code: 268/27/1

Scope and Contents

'A Debt Repaid' by Kenneth T. France won an Award in 1991. A short story of three fishermen, a father and his two sons, who save two children from a sinking boat.

Dates: 1991

Found in: Special Collections and Archives

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A Central Circus Site Monograph, c1930 - 1999

A Chapter of Accidents and Acrobatic Antics Film, c1945 - 1960

A Charm For A Democracy, Reviewed, Analysed, and Destroyed Jany 1st 1799 To The Confusion Of Its Affiliated Friends, 1 February 1799

A Charm For A Democracy, Reviewed, Analysed, and Destroyed Jany 1st 1799 To The Confusion Of Its Affiliated Friends, 1 February 1799

A Christmas Piece - The Christmas Lads, Keynsham Play Text, c1970 - 1987

A Coat of Arms for a Stamp on Income, 20 December 1798

A Cold Season, 12 February 1799

A collection of historic circus posters from the Arthur Fenwick collection, Tyne & Wear Archives made public online for First Time! Handbill, 2013

A collection of historic circus posters from the Arthur Fenwick collection, Tyne & Wear Archives made public online for First Time! Handbill, 2013

A Collier's Friday Night Programme, 1970

A Concise Explanation of the Convention Bills!!, 23 December 1795

A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper, 18 June 1792

A cup final souvenir edition of the Manchester Evening Chronicle, 23 April 1958

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Programme, 1970

A Day to Remember by Arthur Wiles, 1990

A Day With Paul Le Royer Film, c1945 - 1990

A Day with Paul Le Royer Film, c1950 - 1959

A Day with Paul Le Royer Film, c1945 - 1960

A Day with Paul Le Royer Film, c1945 - 1990

A Debt Repaid by Kenneth T. France, 1991

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