Brothers Barr Performing on a Motorbike Photograph , c1920 - 1929

Item — Box: Sanger Circus Box 1

Reference code: 178C114.139

Brothers Barr Acrobats, c1920 - 1939

Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man lying down on a motorbike seat with his legs extended upwards holding another man on his feet. The motorbike has a flag on the handle bars marked 'Bros Barr'. The Brothers Barr were Thomas and Charles Barr, originally miners, of Lochgelly, Fifeshire. They were also later billed as the Aberdonians. The brothers are performing in front of a lorry marked Moxon's Circus.

Dates

Creation: c1920 - 1929

Creator

Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) (Organisation)

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