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Smart Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0079
Scope and Contents

This collection contains posters, programmes, letters, film, business records and a large number of family and circus photographs. This unique family collection charts the history of the Smart family from their beginnings as fairground showmen to presenting one of the greatest British circuses.

Dates: c1890 - 2014

Ted Lightbown Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0088
Scope and Contents

Promotional photographs from Rhyl pleasure beach and a large number of plans for Rhyl and associated parks. This includes Battersea festival of Britain, the Battersea Amusement Park and client parks for whom Rhyl built water chute structures.

Dates: c1910 - 1999

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

Tommy Green Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0001
Scope and Contents

This collection contains documents relating to fairgrounds collected by Tommy Green including photographs, paintings, manuscripts, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, cash books, programmes from Tydesley Wakes and plans of Bolton Fairs. Included in the collection are the Burrell photographs.

Dates: 1911 - 1968

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Fairs 24
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Spanish; Castilian 4
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The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 8
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 2
Braithwaite, David, 1932 - 1982 2
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 2
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 2
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Downie, Graham, Born 1941 (Fairground Enthusiast) 2
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 2
George Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd (1875 - 1977) 2
Orton, George, 1843 - 1924 2
Savage Ltd (1850 -1973) 2
Spooner, Charles, 1871 - 1939 2
Thurston, Charles, c1882 - 1928 2
Aspland, George, 1836 - 1911 1
Bartlett, John Norman, c1892 - 1972 1
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 1
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 1
Biddall, c1880 - 1914 1
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 1
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 1
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 1
Braithwaite, Joanna, Born c1960 1
British Amusement Catering Trade Association (BACTA) (Established 1974) 1
Browns Foundry Co. (Established 1869) 1
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 1
Buttrick, Barbara, Born 1930 1
Charles Burrell & Sons Ltd (1770 - 1928) 1
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Cranes (Dereham) Ltd (1865 - 2005) 1
Danter, Establish c1880 (Fairground Showmen) 1
Darby, Herbert, Active c1880 - 1929 (Fairground Artist) 1
David Smart's Super Circus (c1980 - 1983) 1
De-Vey Family (Established c1867) 1
Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 1
Dobson Family, Established c1900 - 1910 1
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Erewash Borough Council (Established 1974) 1
Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 1
Fairweather, John, 1867 - 1942 (Architect) 1
Farrar's Fun Fairs (Established 1876) 1
Farrar, Enoch, c1860 - 1935 1
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
Fowle, Fred, 1914 - 1983 1
Gale, John, Active 1920 - 1989 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Green, Tommy, Active c1962 - 2012 1
Groupe Gaston Reverchon International Design (1929 - 2008) 1
Haslam, Albert, 1851 - [?] 1
Haydon & Urry Ltd (c1890 - 1916) 1
Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 1
Horne, Thomas, Reverend, c1850 - 1918 1
J. Whiting & Son Funfairs (Established c1899) 1
Kinder, Ron, Active c1960 - 1989 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Lang Wheels (c1900 - 1969) 1
Lee, Harry, 1913 - 1997 1
Leisure Parcs Ltd (1995 - 2016) 1
Lightbown, Ted, 1943 - 2022 1
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
Lusse Brothers Inc (1922 - 1994) 1
Manders (Established 1850) 1
Mather & Platt (Established 1845) 1
Mazelly-Miller Family (Established c1842) 1
McIndoe, George Archiebald, Born c1961 1
Miller, Glen, Active 1930 - 2000 (Fairground Showman) 1
Miller, Richard, 1895 - 1914 1
Mills, Bertram, 1873 - 1938 1
Monte, Richard, 1877 - 1953 1
Moss Gear Company Ltd (Established 1910) 1
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 1
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 1
Olympia London (Established 1886) 1
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 1
Proctors Funfairs (Established c1870) 1
Robey & Co. Ltd (c1849 - 1988) 1
S.D.C. (c1960 - 1993) (Amusement Rides Manufacturers) 1
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 1
Savage, Frederick, 1828 - 1897 1
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 1
Shufflebottom, Florence, 1931 - 2013 1
Shufflebottom, Rosina, 1872 - 1937 1
Shufflebottom, William, c1850 - 1916 1
Smart, Billy (William), 1894 - 1966 1
Smart, Billy, Jnr (William), 1934 - 2005 1
Smart, David, 1929 - 2007 1
Stewart Family, Established 1914 (Fairground Showmen) 1
Supercar Company Ltd (Established 1934) 1
Swift, Albert, Active c1900 -1950 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Taylor, Ron, c1919 - 2004 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
Thornewill & Warham Ltd (1849 - 1929) 1
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 1
Traver Engineering Company (1906 - 1933) 1
Tucker, George, c1908 - 1999 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Wallis & Steevens Ltd (1856 - 1981) 1
Whimsical Walker, 1851 - 1934 1
Williams, Randall Kay, 1846 - 1898 1
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