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Argyle Theatre Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0117
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a large number of posters as well as business records including records of artist bookings, accounts, scrapbooks, contracts and correspondence.

Dates: 1865 - 1941

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

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

Decar and Tomato Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0094
Scope and Contents

This collection contains black and white photographs and postcards of several generations of the Decar family with a strong focus on John Decar and his act as Decar and Tomato. It also includes other circus performers as well as autograph books and a scrapbook.

Dates: 1902 - 1951

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

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

The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0054
Scope and Contents

The main extent of the collection contains yearbooks, meetings and minutes, correspondence and a record of day to day activities within The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.

Dates: 1904 - 2023

World's Fair Newspaper Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0085
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the complete run of The World's Fair Newspaper from 1904 to the present day. Including microfilmed copies from 1904 to 1950.

Dates: 1904 - 2020

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Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 2
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Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 2
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 2
Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 2
King, Hetty, 1883 - 1972 2
Leno, Dan, 1860 - 1904 2
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 2
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 2
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 2
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, 1832 - 1914 2
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 2
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 2
Tilley, Vesta, 1864 - 1952 2
Victoria, Vesta, 1873 - 1951 2
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 2
Adelphi Theatre (Established 1806) 1
Assembly Rooms (1810 - 1819) 1
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 1
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 1
Barnes, Bill (William), 1920 - 2019 1
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 1
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 1
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 1
Blackpool Hippodrome (1895 - 2014) 1
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 1
Booth, William, 1829 - 1912 (The General) 1
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 1
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 1
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Established 1920) 1
Bruce, Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin, 1766 - 1841 1
Burnaby, Frederick Gustavus, Colonel, 1842 - 1885 1
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 1
Chaplin, Charles, 1889 - 1977 1
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 1
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 1
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 1
Cooper, Millicent, c1900 - 1995 1
Critchlow, Cyril, 1923 - 2008 1
Cruikshank, George, 1792 - 1878 1
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 1
Decar and Tomato (1911 - 1949) 1
Decar, John, Active c1911 - 1949 1
Deveen, D., c1900 - 1989 1
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 1
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 1
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Duke of York Theatre (Established 1892) 1
Egyptian Hall (1812 - 1905) 1
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 1
Evans, Frederick William, 1889 - 1951 1
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 1
Gitana, Gertie (1887 - 1957) 1
Gompertz. Moses (c1812 - 1893) 1
Gordon, Charles George, General, 1833 - 1885 1
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 1
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
Hall by the Sea (1870 - 1919) 1
Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 1
Hicks, William, Colonel, 1830 - 1883 1
Horne, Thomas, Reverend, c1850 - 1918 1
Hylton, Millie, 1870 - 1920 1
Jay, Peter, Born 1944 1
KaMpande, Cetshwayo, c1826 - 1884 1
Ling Soo, Chung, 1861 - 1918 1
Messrs. Hamilton (c1848 - 1923) 1
Mills, Bertram, 1873 - 1938 1
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 1
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 1
Ohmy Circus (c1867 - 1920) 1
Olympia London (Established 1886) 1
Oxford Music Hall (1861 - 1926) 1
P.C. Sorcar, Junior, Born 1946 1
Pasha, Emin, 1840 - 1892 1
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 1
Pepper, John Henry, 1821 - 1990 1
Poole's Myrioramas (1837 - 1937) 1
Poole, Ada Violet, 1875 - 1954 1
Poole, Charles William, 1858 - 1918 1
Poole, Charles William, Jr., 1880 - [?] 1
Poole, Charles, 1821 - 1877 1
Poole, Elizabeth, 1856 - 1937 1
Poole, Florence Henrietta, 1873 - [?] 1
Poole, Fred (Frederick), 1867 - 1907 1
Poole, George Walter, 1828 - 1877 1
Poole, George, 1849 - 1929 1
Poole, Gordon, 1893 - 1970 1
Poole, Henry, 1850 - 1925 1
Poole, John Kenneth Stafford, 1911 - 1998 1
Poole, John Reginald, 1882 - 1950 1
Poole, Joseph Wolseley, 1878 - 1954 1
Poole, Joseph, 1847 - 1906 1
Poole, Lillian Maude, 1879 - 1946 1
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