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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) 1
- Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 1
- Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
- Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 1
- Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 1
- Barbette, 1899 - 1973 1
- Barltrop, Chris, Born c1958 1
- Barrett's Canadian Circus (1925 - 1956) 1
- Batty, William, 1801 - 1868 1
- Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
- Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 1
- Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 1
- Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 1
- Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
- Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 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
- Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 1
- 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
- Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 1
- Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 1
- Circus Archaos (Established 1986) 1
- Circus Barum (1878 - 2008) 1
- Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 1
- Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
- Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
- Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1
- Circus Knie (Established 1803) 1
- Circus Krone (Established 1905) 1
- Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 1
- Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 1
- Circus Roncalli (Established 1976) 1
- Circus Sarrasani (c1902 - 1977) 1
- Circus of Horrors (Established 1995) 1
- Cirque Jean Richard (c1957 - 1990) 1
- Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 1
- Cirque du Soleil (Established 1984) 1
- Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
- Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 1
- Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 1
- Court, Alfred, 1883 - 1977 1
- Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 1
- David Smart's Super Circus (c1980 - 1983) 1
- Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 1
- Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 1
- Doddles, c1877 - 1967 1
- Ducrow, Andrew (1793-1842) 1
- Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Egyptian Hall (1812 - 1905) 1
- Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain (Established 1977) 1
- Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
- Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 1
- Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 1
- Giffords Circus (Established 2000) 1
- Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 1
- Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 1
- Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
- Hassan, Ali, Born c1876 1
- Horn, Rudy, 1933 - 2018 1
- Huxter, Percy, 1890 - 1960 1
- International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo (Established 1974) 1
- Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 1
- Jay Miller's Circus (Established 1986) 1
- Jay, Peter, Born 1944 1
- Kayes, Priscilla, c1904 - 1994 1
- Keith, Charlie, 1836 - 1895 1
- Kelvin Hall (Established 1918) 1
- Kiralfy, Imre, 1845 - 1919 1
- Knight, Laura, Dame, 1877 - 1970 1
- Koringa, 1913 - 1976 1
- Lockhart, George (1883-1979) 1
- London Hippodrome (Established 1900) 1
- Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
- Menken, Adah Isaacs, 1835 - 1868 1
- Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 1
- Mooky the Clown, Born 1974 1
- Niblett, Jack, 1909 - 1990 1 + ∧ less
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