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Ben Jackson Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0106
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 16 posters, 2 handbills, 2 programmes and a small amount of business records, trade material and correspondence relating to Ben Jackson's banjo variety act.

Dates: c1903 - 1923

Bernard Fielding Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0084
Scope and Contents

Photographs and scrapbooks compiled by Bernard Fielding. Each scrapbook contains a mixture of press cuttings including Fairground Mercury and World’s Fair, photographs, postcards, Paul Braithwaite history and patent material. Augmented by handwritten notes and research from other enthusiasts.

Dates: c1990 - 1999

Bernth Lindfors Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0178
Scope and Contents

Slides of black popular entertainment performers, part of Professor Lindfors research for Early Black Enteratinments Abroad: From the Hottentot Venus to Africa's First Olympians book.

Dates: c1800 - 1899

Betty Hunt Papers

 Fonds
Reference code: 149
Scope and Contents

A collection of research papers relating left wing drama and theatre in Sheffield and elsewhere in the late 1930s, gathered by Betty Hunt when researching for a PhD in the School of English at the University of Sheffield in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

For further details of the Betty Hunt Papers please see the box list in the External Documents section below.

Dates: 1930s - 1981

Bill Barnes Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0172
Scope and Contents

Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.

Dates: 1881 - 2017

Bill Garbett Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0050
Scope and Contents

Colour and black and white photographs mainly taken by Bill Garbett of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs and transport owned by Pat Collins Fun Fair, Carters Steam Fair and the showman Alfred Stevens.

Dates: 1937 - 1994

Bill Weeks Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0002
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs of fairgrounds and steam engines, journal articles, newspaper cuttings, correspondence and books on railways, engineering, fairgrounds and other related topics.

Dates: c1920 - 2000

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

Billy Coats Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0104
Scope and Contents

This Collection contains Black and white photographs of fairground rides and people associated to the rides around Stirling.

Dates: c1900 - 1959

Billy Wood Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0102
Scope and Contents

Collection of material related to Billy Wood travelling boxing booth, containing business records, photographs, correspondence, programmes, posters and other items of ephemera.

Dates: c1900 - 1979

Birks Drawings

 Fonds
Reference code: 332
Scope and Contents A collection of 102 technical drawings made by Norman Arthur Birks (1892-1989) while he was an engineering student at Bradford Technical College and at the University of Sheffield between 1908 and 1914. Also includes 32 scholarship certificates, examination certificates and reports relating to Norman Birks’ technical education between 1908 and 1914 both at the University of Sheffield and Bradford Technical College, and 3 photographs featuring N.A. Birks dating from c.1912 to 1914....
Dates: c1908 - 1914

Birt Acres Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0055
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a small amount of archival items and artefacts which belonged to Birt Acres and his son Sidney Birt Acres. The collection also includes books on early cinema, which were used as research material by Alan Acres, while writing ‘Frontiersman to Film-Maker’, and represent the archive created in the process.

Dates: c1870 - 2005

Bob Chase Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0169
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs of fairground people by Bob Chase, produced for his final university year project, also includes contact prints, negatives and notes.

Dates: 1977 - 1978

Bonett Manuscripts

 Fonds
Reference code: 318
Scope and Contents A collection of both manuscript and printed works by John and Emery Bonett, the literary pseudonyms of John Hubert Arthur Coulson (1906-1989) and his wife, Felicity Winifred Carter Coulson (1906-1995), during the period 1936 to 1984 (where dated).It consists of a range of both published and unpublished material, including novels, short stories, plays and television and film scripts, written by John and Emery Bonett, both together and individually.For further details...
Dates: c1936 - 1984

Bownas Recordings

 Fonds
Reference code: CD 7
Scope and Contents Collection consisting of recordings of interviews, plays, poetry and other works relating to Japan, made by Professor Geoffrey Bownas between 1958 and 1980. They include interviews with Kishida Kyoko, Abe Kōbō and Nakamura Utaemon about the Japanese author Mishima Yukio, Bownas’s translation of Naoya Uchimura’s play Marathon, and Japanese poetry. Some were broadcast on the BBC in the late 1950s and early 1960s.For further details of this collection please see the box list in the...
Dates: 1958 - 1980

Bradley Documents

 Fonds
Reference code: 248
Scope and Contents The collection consists of documents relating to the Great Strike of 1984-1985, collected by Andre and Phyllis Bradley. It includes newspaper cuttings, posters, pamphlets, photographs and correspondence, as well as working papers from specific mines, minutes, leaflets and conference reports. The majority of the documents date from the 1970s to the 1990s but there are some older documents from the nineteenth century. For further details of this collection please see the finding...
Dates: 1865 - 1995

Brendan Walker Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0171
Scope and Contents

Colour portrait photographs of people on thrill fairground rides by Brendan Walker.

Dates: 2004 - 2005

Brian Steptoe Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0061
Scope and Contents

An audio cassette recording of a conversation between Maggie Bird (formerly Mrs. Margaret Waddington and nee Shufflebottom) and Brian Steptoe on 15th June, 1993 at Bramerton, Norfolk. There is a ten page transcript to accompany the recording.

Dates: 1993

Britain and the Refugee Crisis, 1933-1947

 Fonds
Reference code: 487
Scope and Contents Audiotapes and transcripts of interviews with mostly Jewish refugees and internees in Britain of the Nazi and World War II era. Interviews are undated but were conducted prior to 1980 and relate to the period 1933-1947.The collection consists of 168 cassettes tapes of interviews with 77 individuals (both men and women), and transcripts of 41 of those interviews. Those interviewed are mainly Jewish refugees (including individuals of mixed race or Jewish extraction), though a...
Dates: [1979]

British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0134
Scope and Contents

Minutes of meetings of the British Association of Leisure Parks, Piers and Attractions and some historical information regarding the organisations’ anniversary celebrations.

Dates: 1936; 1950 - 1996; 2002 - 2004

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National Fairground and Circus Archive 150
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Acrobats 19
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Acres, Birt, 1854 - 1918 2
Allan, Alastair J., Active 1970s - 2015 2
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 5
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
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Aspland, George, 1836 - 1911 2
Aspland-Howden (c1875 - 1915) 2
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 3
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3
B. Cole & Sons (Amusements) Ltd (Established 1890) 2
Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 2
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 3
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 2
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 2
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 5
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 9
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 7
Bird, Margaret, c1900 - 1999 2
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 3
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 5
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 2
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 4
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 3
Bradley, Philip W, Active 1920 - 1999 2
Braithwaite, David, 1932 - 1982 4
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 3
British Union of Fascists (1932 - 1940) 6
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 4
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 5
Calladine, Neil, Born 1951 2
Carters Steam Fair (1977 - 2022) 4
Centre for Luxembourg Studies (University of Sheffield) (Established 1995) 2
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 3
Charles Burrell & Sons Ltd (1770 - 1928) 2
Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 2
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 7
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 2
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 2
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 4
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 2
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 3
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 3
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 3
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 3
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 4
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 3
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 3
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 3
Fairground Association of Great Britain. (FAGB) (Established 1977) 6
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 4
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 5
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 3
George Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd (1875 - 1977) 3
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 3
Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 3
Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 3
Horne, Thomas, Reverend, c1850 - 1918 3
Innes Smith, Robert William, 1872 - 1933 3
J.W. Shaw Amusements (Initiated c1860 - 1889) 3
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 3
Krebs, Hans Adolf, Sir, 1900 - 1981 3
Ling's Family Amusements (Initiated c1850 - 1859) 3
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 6
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 4
Mellors Group Events (Established 1890) 3
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 3
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 3
National Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) (1975 - 2008) 15
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 3
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 3
Olympia London (Established 1886) 5
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 3
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 3
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 6
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 5
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 3
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 6
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 5
Shufflebottom Family, c1870 - 1998 4
Smith, George Charles Moore, 1858 - 1940 3
The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 3
The Kursaal (1894 - 2020) 3
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 16
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 4
Union Movement (1948 - 1973) 3
University of Sheffield (Established 1828) 26
University of Sheffield Library (Established 1879) 7
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 3
Waddington's Funfairs (Initiated c1860 - 1899) 3
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 4
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 11
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