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Christopher Palmer Collection
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.
Circus Friends Association Collection
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
Rowland Scott Collection
Photographs related to all aspects of British travelling fairgrounds including; rides, transport, living wagons, showpeople, fairground shows, circuses and organs by Rowland Scott and other authors, a selection of manuscripts by Rowland Scott and a small amount of correspondence.
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- Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
- Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 2
- Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 2
- Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 2
- Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 2
- Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 2
- Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 2
- Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
- Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 2
- Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
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- Circus Krone (Established 1905) 2
- Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
- Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 2
- Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 2
- Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 2
- Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 2
- Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 2
- Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2
- Rogana, Born 1933 2
- Thames Television (Established 1968) 2
- W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 2
- Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 2
- Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
- Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
- Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 1
- Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 1
- Aznavour, Charles, 1924 - 2018 1
- Barbette, 1899 - 1973 1
- Barltrop, Chris, Born c1958 1
- Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 1
- Barrett's Canadian Circus (1925 - 1956) 1
- Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
- Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 1
- Batty, William, 1801 - 1868 1
- Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
- 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
- Brick, Hans, 1889 - 1972 1
- Butlins (Established c1920) 1
- Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 1
- Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 1
- Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 1
- Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1
- Circus Archaos (Established 1986) 1
- Circus Barum (1878 - 2008) 1
- Circus Boltini (Established c1939) 1
- Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
- Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
- Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1
- 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 du Soleil (Established 1984) 1
- Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
- Codona (Established c1790) 1
- Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 1
- Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 1
- Corrigan's Amusement Arcades (Established c1960 - 1969) 1
- Court, Alfred, 1883 - 1977 1
- Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 1
- Crow Amusements (Established 1865) 1
- Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 1
- 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) 1
- Ducrow, Andrew (1793-1842) 1
- Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Essex, David, Born 1947 1
- Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 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
- Giffords Circus (Established 2000) 1
- Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 1
- Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
- Hamilton, David, Born 1938 1
- Hassan, Ali, Born c1876 1
- Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 1
- Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 1
- Horn, Rudy, 1933 - 2018 1 + ∧ less
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