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Christopher Palmer Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0105
Scope and Contents

Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.

Dates: 1973 - 1983

National Fairground and Circus Archive Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0092
Scope and Contents

Contains thousands of posters, programmes, photographs, handbills, original documents, specialist journals, newspapers and a library containing publications on all the areas of collecting

Dates: c1700 - 2020

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  • Language: Russian X
  • Subject: Music-halls X

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Acrobats 1
Aerialists 1
Amusement rides 1
Animal trainers 1
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Danish 1
Norwegian Nynorsk; Nynorsk, Norwegian 1
Aromanian; Arumanian; Macedo-Romanian 1
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Names
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 1
Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 1
Aznavour, Charles, 1924 - 2018 1
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
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Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 1
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 1
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 1
Boone, Pat, Born 1934 1
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 1
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 1
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 1
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 1
Circus Boltini (Established c1939) 1
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 1
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 1
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 1
Circus Togni (Established c1880) 1
Cirkus Arnardo (Established 1949) 1
Cirkus Benneweis (1887 - 2015) 1
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 1
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 1
Distel, Sacha, 1933 - 2004 1
Downie, Graham, Born 1941 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Essex, David, Born 1947 1
Fossett, Jacko, 1922 - 2004 1
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 1
Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 1
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 1
Hamilton, David, Born 1938 1
Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 1
Knight, Gladys, Born 1944 1
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
Lulu, Born 1948 1
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 1
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 1
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 1
Palmer, Christopher, Born 1930 1
Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 1
Rogana, Born 1933 1
Ronnie, Smart, c1930 - 2020 1
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 1
Thames Television (Established 1968) 1
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 1
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 1
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 1
Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 1
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