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Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 7

Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 7

Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 6

Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 5

Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 4

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Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 4

Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4

Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4

Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 4

Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 4

Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 4

Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3

Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 3

Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 3

Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 3

Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 3

Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3

Circus Knie (Established 1803) 3

Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 3

Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 3

Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 3

Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 3

Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 3

Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 3

Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 3

Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 3

Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 3

Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3

W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 3

World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 3

Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2

Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 2

Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2

Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2

Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 2

Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2

Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 2

Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 2

Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2

Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2

Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2

Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 2

Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 2

Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 2

Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 2

Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2

Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 2

Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 2

Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 2

David Smart's Super Circus (c1980 - 1983) 2

Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 2

Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 2

Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 2

Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 2

Fisher, Hal, 1909 - 2002 2

Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 2

Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 2

Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 2

Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 2

Hall by the Sea (1870 - 1919) 2

Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 2

Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 2

International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo (Established 1974) 2

J.W. Shaw Amusements (Initiated c1860 - 1889) 2

Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 2

Jay, Peter, Born 1944 2

Jonsson, Harder, 1912 - 1979 2

Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 2

King, Hetty, 1883 - 1972 2

Knight, Laura, Dame, 1877 - 1970 2

Koringa, 1913 - 1976 2

Leno, Dan, 1860 - 1904 2

Ling Soo, Chung, 1861 - 1918 2

Ling's Family Amusements (Initiated c1850 - 1859) 2

Mellor, Jack, c1894 - 1979 (Fairground Enthusiast) 2

Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 2

National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 2

Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 2

Ohmy Circus (c1867 - 1920) 2

Olympia London (Established 1886) 2

Polyakov, Nikolai Petrovich, 1900 - 1974 (Coco the Clown) 2

Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2

Robert Brothers Circus (Established 1944) 2

Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, 1832 - 1914 2

Rogana, Born 1933 2

Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 2

Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 2

Smart, Billy (William), 1894 - 1966 2

Stars in der Manege (1959 - 2008) 2

Taylor's Printers, Wombwell, Yorks (Established c1890) 2

Thames Television (Established 1968) 2

The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 2

The Great Ohmy, c1852 - 1931 2

The Kursaal (1894 - 2020) 2

The London Palladium (Established 1910) 2

The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 2

Tilley, Vesta, 1864 - 1952 2

Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 2

Victoria, Vesta, 1873 - 1951 2

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