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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

Charles Taylor Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0069
Scope and Contents

The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.

Dates: c1937 - 1989

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

Circus Friends Association Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0122
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses

Dates: 1795 - 2020

Cyril Critchlow Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0089
Scope and Contents The Cyril Critchlow collection contains programmes, posters, handbills, books and magic journals, many of which relate to shows in Blackpool where Cyril resided and includes material on entertainment venues such as Blackpool’s North Pier, Central Pier, South Pier, Tower Circus and a small collection of programmes from other national venues. Additionally, it contains circus photographs and postcards mainly of the Ohmy Circus and Sanger Circus including individual circus troupes and performers...
Dates: c1837 - 2008

David Harris Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0129
Scope and Contents

This collection contains colour photographs of circus, circus performers, transport and performing animals.

Dates: 1960 -1990

John Anderson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0152
Scope and Contents

Colour and black and white born digital photographs of Zippos Circus taken by John Anderson in Endcliffe Park, Sheffield

Dates: 2017

Lulu Adams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0042
Scope and Contents

This collection contains business records, newspaper cuttings, programmes, notebooks and handbills, as well as a collection of black and white photographs, some original artwork and other items relating to Lulu Adam’s personal life and career

Dates: c1880 - 1959

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

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Adams, Albert Victor, 1890 - 1949 1
Adams, Lulu (Louise), c1900 - 1989 1
Adelphi Theatre (Established 1806) (London) 1
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Anderson, John, Born 1973 1
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Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 1
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
Askey, Arthur Bowden, 1900 - 1982 1
Assembly Rooms (1810 - 1819) 1
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 1
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3
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 3
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 1
Batty, William, 1801 - 1868 1
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 2
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 3
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 2
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 1
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 3
Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
Blackpool Hippodrome (1895 - 2014) 1
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 2
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2
Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 1
Boone, Pat, Born 1934 1
Booth, William, 1829 - 1912 (The General) 1
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 2
Bostock, Frank C., 1866 - 1912 1
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 1
Brick, Hans, 1889 - 1972 1
Bruce, Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin, 1766 - 1841 1
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 1
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 4
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 2
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 2
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 2
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 3
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 2
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 2
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 2
Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 2
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 2
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 3
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 2
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 2
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 2
Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 2
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 3
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 3
Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 2
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 3
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 2
Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 2
Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 2
Jay, Peter, Born 1944 2
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 3
King, Hetty, 1883 - 1972 2
Leno, Dan, 1860 - 1904 2
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 3
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 3
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 2
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 2
Ohmy Circus (c1867 - 1920) 2
Olympia London (Established 1886) 2
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 2
Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 3
Robert Brothers Circus (Established 1944) 2
Rogana, Born 1933 2
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 2
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 2
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 3
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 3
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 London Palladium (Established 1910) 2
Victoria, Vesta, 1873 - 1951 2
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 3
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 2
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 2
Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 2
Zippos Circus (Established 1986) 2
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