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Argyle Theatre Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0117
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a large number of posters as well as business records including records of artist bookings, accounts, scrapbooks, contracts and correspondence.

Dates: 1865 - 1941

George Tucker Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0020
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises fairground photographs and 3 members' cards, two from Yorkshire Stall Holders Association and one from the Yorkshire section of the Showmen's Guild

Dates: c1912 - 1969

Joe Stumcke Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0162
Scope and Contents

This collection contains scrapbooks, programmes, photographs of performers at the Kursaal, Bertram Mills Circus and sideshows as well as some business records related to the Stumcke family and their work at the Kursaal and Bertram Mills Circus.

Dates: 1829 - 1974

Monte-Williams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0161
Scope and Contents

Research material by Pauline Tindale and a small amount of original archive related to Randall Williams and his descendants, including birth, death and marriage certificates and photographs.

Dates: 1797 - 1998; 2018 - 2021

National Fairground and Circus Archive Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0092
Scope and Contents

Contains thousands of posters, programmes, photographs, handbills, original documents, specialist journals, newspapers and a library containing publications on all the areas of collecting

Dates: c1700 - 2020

Norman Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0087
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs, business papers, newspaper cuttings typed pages and notes (probably for an autobiography) with some correspondence about a proposed book. There are also some costumes and props.

Dates: c1930 - 1969

Shufflebottom Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0014
Scope and Contents The main part of the collection consists of material relating to the Shufflebottom family and receipts and posters advertising their latest attractions. The second half of the collection relates to the Waddington family and Margaret Shufflebottom's later marriage to Arthur Bird.The Shufflebottom collection consists of photographs, diaries, albums, account books and assorted ephemera associated with the family's history on the fair. The photographic material dates from 1890 to the...
Dates: c1890 - 1989

Testo Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0032
Scope and Contents

This collection comprises photographs, business records, articles, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, advertising material, family research and items of personal archive related to the Testo family history in the fairground and circus

Dates: 1898 - 1999

The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0054
Scope and Contents

The main extent of the collection contains yearbooks, meetings and minutes, correspondence and a record of day to day activities within The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.

Dates: 1904 - 2023

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The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 3
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 1
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
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Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 1
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Established 1920) 1
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 1
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 1
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 1
Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 1
Downie, Graham, Born 1941 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 1
Gitana, Gertie (1887 - 1957) 1
Haydon & Urry Ltd (c1890 - 1916) 1
Horne, Thomas, Reverend, c1850 - 1918 1
Hylton, Millie, 1870 - 1920 1
Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 1
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
Mills, Bertram, 1873 - 1938 1
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 1
Monte, Richard, 1877 - 1953 1
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 1
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 1
Reeves, Billie (William), 1864 - 1943 1
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, 1832 - 1914 1
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 1
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 1
Shufflebottom, Florence, 1931 - 2013 1
Shufflebottom, Rosina, 1872 - 1937 1
Shufflebottom, William, c1850 - 1916 1
Stumcke, Joe (Joseph), 1926 - 2017 1
Testo Family, Established c1700 1
Testo, Felix, c1799 - 1879 1
Testo, Felix, junior, c1838 - 1910 1
Testo, William, 1840 - 1899 1
The Kursaal (1894 - 2020) 1
Thurston, Charles, c1882 - 1928 1
Tilley, Vesta, 1864 - 1952 1
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 1
Tucker, George, c1908 - 1999 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Whimsical Walker, 1851 - 1934 1
Williams, Randall Kay, 1846 - 1898 1
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