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Sanger Circus Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0154
Scope and Contents

Black and white and some colour photographs, negatives, handbills, programmes and other items of ephemera relating George Sanger's circus and the Hall by the Sea.

Dates: c1850 - 1945

Sanger Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0166
Scope and Contents

This collection contains black and white photographs of George Sanger's Circus, photocopies of newspaper cuttings related to the Sanger Family and original drawings for costume designs by June Dick.

Dates: c1900 - 2018

Selina Dobson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: On loan
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs, Showmen's Guild membership cards and newspaper cuttings relating to the Dobson family, as well as World War One and World War Two photographs, correspondence, medals and certificates.

Dates: c1900 - 1989

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

Stuart Johnstone Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0041
Scope and Contents

Photographs of rides, fairgrounds, traction engines and organs taken by a number of individuals as well as detailed notebooks. His notebooks are essentially digested versions of the World's Fair and include chronological guides to fairs, machines for sale, parks, engines and families.

Dates: 1920 - 1980

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

Turner Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0030
Scope and Contents

This collection contains black and white photographs and negatives relating to the Turner family, mourning ribbons and a certificate of marriage

Dates: c1903 - 1956

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Names
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 5
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 5
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 3
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 3
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Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 3
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 3
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 3
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 3
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 2
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 2
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 2
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 2
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 2
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 2
Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 2
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 2
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 2
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 2
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 2
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 2
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 2
Hall by the Sea (1870 - 1919) 2
Jay, Peter, Born 1944 2
Ohmy Circus (c1867 - 1920) 2
Olympia London (Established 1886) 2
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 2
Robert Brothers Circus (Established 1944) 2
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 2
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 2
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 2
The Great Ohmy, c1852 - 1931 2
The London Palladium (Established 1910) 2
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 2
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 2
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 2
Adams, Albert Victor, 1890 - 1949 1
Adams, Lulu (Louise), c1900 - 1989 1
Adelphi Theatre (Established 1806) 1
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 1
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 1
B. Cole & Sons (Amusements) Ltd (Established 1890) 1
Barbette, 1899 - 1973 1
Barltrop, Chris, Born c1958 1
Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 1
Barrett's Canadian Circus (1925 - 1956) 1
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 1
Batty, William, 1801 - 1868 1
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 1
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 1
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 1
Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
Blackpool Hippodrome (1895 - 2014) 1
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 1
Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 1
Booth, William, 1829 - 1912 (The General) 1
Bostock, Frank C., 1866 - 1912 1
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 1
Brick, Hans, 1889 - 1972 1
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 1
Butcher, Caroline, [?] 1
Butcher, Henry, c1840 - [?] 1
Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 1
Cashmore, Martha, 1870 - 1957 1
Chaplin, Charles, 1889 - 1977 1
Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 1
Chase, Bob, Born 1957 1
Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 1
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 1
Circus Archaos (Established 1986) 1
Circus Barum (1878 - 2008) 1
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 1
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 1
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 1
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 1
Circus Roncalli (Established 1976) 1
Circus Sarrasani (c1902 - 1977) 1
Circus of Horrors (Established 1995) 1
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1
Cirque Jean Richard (c1957 - 1990) 1
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 1
Cirque du Soleil (Established 1984) 1
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 1
Cooper, Millicent, c1900 - 1995 1
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 1
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