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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

Barbara Buttrick Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0083
Scope and Contents

The collection contains photographs, handbills and programmes relating to Barbara Buttrick’s boxing career and some material she collected related to boxing.

Dates: c1900 - 2001

Billy Bellhouse Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0038
Scope and Contents

Photographs, handbills, newspaper reports and financial records relating to Billy Bellhouse and his life as a wall of death rider as well as other performers.

Dates: 1914 - 1960; 2016

George McIndoe Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0181
Scope and Contents

Photographs, slides, newspaper cuttings related to the Biddall family and photographs of Kirkaldy Fair created for a documentary on Scottish fairs.

Dates: c1880 - 1969; 18 May 1981

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

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

Ronald Allen Taylor Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0015
Scope and Contents

The collection contains photographs in twenty two albums taken by Taylor and other photographers, correspondence and a number of catalogues including his Dodgem research material.

Dates: c1900 - 1991

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

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Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 2
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 2
Angolpark (Established 1910) 1
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
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Bellhouse, Billy (William), 1907 - 1980 1
Biddall, c1880 - 1914 1
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 1
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
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
Buttrick, Barbara, Born 1930 1
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 1
Downie, Graham, Born 1941 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Gitana, Gertie (1887 - 1957) 1
Hylton, Millie, 1870 - 1920 1
Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 1
Kelvin Hall (Established 1918) 1
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
McIndoe, George Archiebald, Born c1961 1
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 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
S.D.C. (c1960 - 1993) (Amusement Rides Manufacturers) 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
Taylor, Ronald Allen, 1925 - 1994 (Fairground Enthusiast) 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
Tilley, Vesta, 1864 - 1952 1
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 1
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