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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

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

Digger Pugh Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0179
Scope and Contents

Archive of the Digger Pugh family including newspaper cuttings, photographs, negatives, business records, programmes, research material, posters and films.

Dates: c1930 - 2010

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Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 1
Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 1
Aznavour, Charles, 1924 - 2018 1
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Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 1
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 2
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
Boone, Pat, Born 1934 1
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 2
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Established 1920) 1
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 1
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 1
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 1
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 1
Circus Boltini (Established c1939) 1
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 1
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 1
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 2
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 1
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 1
Circus Togni (Established c1880) 1
Cirkus Arnardo (Established 1949) 1
Cirkus Benneweis (1887 - 2015) 1
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 1
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 1
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 1
Distel, Sacha, 1933 - 2004 1
Essex, David, Born 1947 1
Fossett, Jacko, 1922 - 2004 1
Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 1
Gitana, Gertie (1887 - 1957) 1
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 1
Hamilton, David, Born 1938 1
Hylton, Millie, 1870 - 1920 1
Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 1
Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 1
Knight, Gladys, Born 1944 1
Lulu, Born 1948 1
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 1
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 1
Palmer, Christopher, Born 1930 1
Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 1
Pugh, Digger, c1902 - 1985 1
Pugh, John Wallace, Born 1938 1
Reeves, Billie (William), 1864 - 1943 1
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 1
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, 1832 - 1914 1
Rogana, Born 1933 1
Ronnie, Smart, c1930 - 2020 1
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 1
Thames Television (Established 1968) 1
Tilley, Vesta, 1864 - 1952 1
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 1
Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 1
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