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Christopher Palmer Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0105
Scope and Contents
Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.
Dates:
1973 - 1983
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Circus Friends Association Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0122
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses
Dates:
1795 - 2020
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
John Bramwell Taylor Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0086
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...
Dates:
c1786 - 2003
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
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- Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
- Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
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- Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
- Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 2
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- Aznavour, Charles, 1924 - 2018 1
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- Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
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- Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
- Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
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- Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 1
- Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
- Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
- Boone, Pat, Born 1934 1
- Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 1
- Bostock, Frank C., 1866 - 1912 1
- Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 1
- Bramwell Taylor, John, c1912 - 2003 1
- Brick, Hans, 1889 - 1972 1
- Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 2
- Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 2
- Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 1
- Chang & Eng, 1811 - 1874 1
- Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 1
- Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 1
- Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1
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- Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
- Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 2
- Circus Archaos (Established 1986) 1
- Circus Barum (1878 - 2008) 1
- Circus Boltini (Established c1939) 1
- Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
- Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
- Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
- Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1
- Circus Knie (Established 1803) 2
- Circus Krone (Established 1905) 2
- Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 1
- Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 1
- Circus Roncalli (Established 1976) 1
- Circus Sarrasani (c1902 - 1977) 1
- Circus Togni (Established c1880) 1
- Circus of Horrors (Established 1995) 1
- Cirkus Arnardo (Established 1949) 1
- Cirkus Benneweis (1887 - 2015) 1
- Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1
- Cirque Jean Richard (c1957 - 1990) 1
- Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
- Cirque du Soleil (Established 1984) 1
- Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
- Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 1
- Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 2
- Court, Alfred, 1883 - 1977 1
- Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 1
- Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 2
- David Smart's Super Circus (c1980 - 1983) 1
- Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 1
- Distel, Sacha, 1933 - 2004 1
- Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 1
- Doddles, c1877 - 1967 1
- Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 2
- Ducrow, Andrew (1793-1842) 1
- Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Egyptian Hall (1812 - 1905) 1
- Essex, David, Born 1947 1
- Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain (Established 1977) 1
- Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
- Fossett, Jacko, 1922 - 2004 1
- Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 1
- Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 2
- Giffords Circus (Established 2000) 1
- Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 1
- Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 2
- Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
- Hamilton, David, Born 1938 1
- Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 2
- Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 2
- Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 2
- Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 2
- Olympia London (Established 1886) 2
- Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2
- Rogana, Born 1933 2
- Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 2
- Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 2
- Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 2
- Thames Television (Established 1968) 2
- The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 2
- W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 2
- Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 2 + ∧ less
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