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National Fairground and Circus Archive 13

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English 23

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Italian 3

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Names

Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 4

Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 4

Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 3

Circus Knie (Established 1803) 3

Circus Krone (Established 1905) 3

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 3

Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2

Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 2

Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 2

Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2

Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 2

Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 2

Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2

Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 2

Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2

Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 2

Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 2

Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 2

Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2

Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 2

Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 2

Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 2

Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 2

Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 2

Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 2

Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 2

Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 2

Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 2

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

Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 2

Kelvin Hall (Established 1918) 2

Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 2

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

Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2

Rogana, Born 1933 2

Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 2

Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 2

Stars in der Manege (1959 - 2008) 2

Thames Television (Established 1968) 2

The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 2

Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 2

W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 2

Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 2

Acres, Alan Birt, Born c1950 1

Acres, Annie Elizabeth, c1864 - 1959 1

Acres, Birt, 1854 - 1918 1

Acres, Sidney Birt, c1895 - 1969 1

Adams, Albert Victor, 1890 - 1949 1

Adams, Lulu (Louise), c1900 - 1989 1

Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1

Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 1

Angolpark (Established 1910) 1

Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1

Assembly Rooms (1810 - 1819) 1

Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 1

Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 1

Aznavour, Charles, 1924 - 2018 1

Barbette, 1899 - 1973 1

Barltrop, Chris, Born c1958 1

Barnes, Bill (William), 1920 - 2019 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

Bellhouse, Billy (William), 1907 - 1980 1

Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1

Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 1

Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1

Blundell Jones, Peter, 1949 - 2016 1

Boone, Pat, Born 1934 1

Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 1

Bostock, Frank C., 1866 - 1912 1

Brick, Hans, 1889 - 1972 1

British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 1

British Film Institute (BFI) (Established 1933) 1

Bruce, Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin, 1766 - 1841 1

Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 1

Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 1

Burnaby, Frederick Gustavus, Colonel, 1842 - 1885 1

Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 1

Cashmore, Martha, 1870 - 1957 1

Champernowne, Irene, 1901 - 1976 1

Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 1

Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 1

Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1

Circus Archaos (Established 1986) 1

Circus Barum (1878 - 2008) 1

Circus Boltini (Established c1939) 1

Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1

Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1

Circus Roncalli (Established 1976) 1

Circus Sarrasani (c1902 - 1977) 1

Circus Togni (Established c1880) 1

Circus of Horrors (Established 1995) 1

Cirkus Arnardo (Established 1949) 1

Cirkus Benneweis (1887 - 2015) 1

Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1

Cirkus Scott (1937 - 2003) 1

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