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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

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

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

Handby Celeine Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0107
Scope and Contents

Posters, photographs, programmes, 1 piece of sheet music for six instruments and a small amount of business records and correspondence relating to the dancing and burlesque comedy on skates.

Dates: c1920 - 1945; 2020

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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Acrobats 4
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Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 2
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 2
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 2
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Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 2
Adelphi Theatre (Established 1806) 1
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 1
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 1
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 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
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 1
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 1
Chaplin, Charles, 1889 - 1977 1
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 1
Chester Royalty Theatre (1882 - 1966) 1
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 1
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1
Cooper, Millicent, c1900 - 1995 1
Critchlow, Cyril, 1923 - 2008 1
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 1
Deveen, D., c1900 - 1989 1
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 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
Empire Theatre (1914 - 1955) (Tonbridge) 1
Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 1
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 1
Gitana, Gertie (1887 - 1957) 1
Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 1
Grand Theatre (1898 - 1957) (Luton) 1
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 1
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
Hall by the Sea (1870 - 1919) 1
Handby & Celeine (Active 1932 - 1939) 1
Heeley Green Theatre (1920 - 2004) 1
Hippodrome (1880 - 1956) (Keighley) 1
Hylton, Millie, 1870 - 1920 1
Jackson, Ben (Benjamin), Active 1903 - 1923 1
Jay, Peter, Born 1944 1
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 1
Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 1
King, Hetty, 1883 - 1972 1
Leno, Dan, 1860 - 1904 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
P.C. Sorcar, Junior, Born 1946 1
Palace Theatre (1898 - 1955) (Attercliffe) 1
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 1
Prince of Wales Theatre (Established 1884) (London) 1
Raffles, Joan, 1925 - 2009 1
Raffles, Mark, Born 1922 1
Reeves, Billie (William), 1864 - 1943 1
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 1
Robert Brothers Circus (Established 1944) 1
Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, 1832 - 1914 1
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 1
Shettleston Public Hall (1925 - 2014) 1
Taylor's Printers, Wombwell, Yorks (Established c1890) 1
The Alhambra Theatre (Established 1914) (Bradford) 1
The Empire Theatre (Penge) (1913 - 1949) 1
The Great Ohmy, c1852 - 1931 1
The Hippodrome (1913 - 1960) (Aldershot) 1
The London Palladium (Established 1910) 1
The New Alhambra Theatre (Devonport) (1894 - 1941) 1
The Ohmy Sisters (c1910 - 1914) 1
The Palace Theatre (Established 1891) (London) 1
The Queen's Theatre (1934 - 1939) (Mansfield) 1
The Theatre Royal (Established 1805) (Bath) 1
The Theatre Royal (Stockport) (1869 - 1958) 1
The Theatre Royal (c1855 - 1957) (Bilston) 1
Theatre Royal (c1890 - 1955) (Castleford) 1
Tilley, Vesta, 1864 - 1952 1
Tivoli Theatre (1914 - 1955) (New Brighton) 1
Victoria, Vesta, 1873 - 1951 1
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 1
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 1
Woodward, Milton, 1900 - 1964 1
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 1
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