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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

Birt Acres Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0055
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a small amount of archival items and artefacts which belonged to Birt Acres and his son Sidney Birt Acres. The collection also includes books on early cinema, which were used as research material by Alan Acres, while writing ‘Frontiersman to Film-Maker’, and represent the archive created in the process.

Dates: c1870 - 2005

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

Digger Pugh Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0179
Scope and Contents

Archive of the Digger Pugh family including newspaper cuttings, photographs, negatives, business records, programmes, research material, posters and films.

Dates: c1930 - 2010

George McIndoe Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0181
Scope and Contents

Photographs, slides, newspaper cuttings related to the Biddall family and photographs of Kirkaldy Fair created for a documentary on Scottish fairs.

Dates: c1880 - 1969; 18 May 1981

Monte-Williams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0161
Scope and Contents

Research material by Pauline Tindale and a small amount of original archive related to Randall Williams and his descendants, including birth, death and marriage certificates and photographs.

Dates: 1797 - 1998; 2018 - 2021

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

Orton and Spooner Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0070
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a large selection of archives from the Orton and Spooner Company. The collection comprises photographs and cabinet card images showing carved work, structural work and classic painted work, 4 boxes of notes, invoices and clippings, 8 drawers of plans and blueprints, 2 folders of ride specifications and order forms, accounts books and a library of source books showing turn of the century art used by the artists in the company.

Dates: c1870 - 1969

Ron Kinder Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0052
Scope and Contents

Slides and photographs of Ron's travels to various preservation events and a few pictures from local Derbyshire fairs, articles, correspondence and Nottingham and Hull fair plans.

Dates: 1960 - 2002

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Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 2
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 2
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Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 2
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 2
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 2
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 2
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 2
Olympia London (Established 1886) 2
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 2
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 2
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 2
Acres, Alan Birt, Born c1950 1
Acres, Annie Elizabeth, c1864 - 1959 1
Acres, Birt, 1854 - 1918 1
Acres, Sidney Birt, c1895 - 1969 1
Adelphi Theatre (Established 1806) 1
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 1
Aspland, George, 1836 - 1911 1
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 1
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
Bartlett, John Norman, c1892 - 1972 1
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 1
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 1
Biddall, c1880 - 1914 1
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 1
Blackpool Hippodrome (1895 - 2014) 1
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 1
Braithwaite, David, 1932 - 1982 1
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Established 1920) 1
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 1
British Film Institute (BFI) (Established 1933) 1
Browns Foundry Co. (Established 1869) 1
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 1
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 1
Chaplin, Charles, 1889 - 1977 1
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 1
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 1
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 1
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 1
Cooper, Millicent, c1900 - 1995 1
Cranes (Dereham) Ltd (1865 - 2005) 1
Critchlow, Cyril, 1923 - 2008 1
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 1
Danter, Establish c1880 (Fairground Showmen) 1
Darby, Herbert, Active c1880 - 1929 (Fairground Artist) 1
Deveen, D., c1900 - 1989 1
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 1
Downie, Graham, Born 1941 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Duke of York Theatre (Established 1892) 1
Egyptian Hall (1812 - 1905) 1
Electric (Modern) Printing Company (c1930 - 1991) 1
Fairweather, John, 1867 - 1942 (Architect) 1
Farrar's Fun Fairs (Established 1876) 1
Farrar, Enoch, c1860 - 1935 1
Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 1
Fowle, Fred, 1914 - 1983 1
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 1
Gale, John, Active 1920 - 1989 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 1
George Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd (1875 - 1977) 1
Gitana, Gertie (1887 - 1957) 1
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 1
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
Haydon & Urry Ltd (c1890 - 1916) 1
Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 1
Hylton, Millie, 1870 - 1920 1
J. Whiting & Son Funfairs (Established c1899) 1
Jackson, Ben (Benjamin), Active 1903 - 1923 1
Jay, Peter, Born 1944 1
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 1
Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 1
Kinder, Ron, Active c1960 - 1989 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
King, Hetty, 1883 - 1972 1
Leno, Dan, 1860 - 1904 1
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
Manders (Established 1850) 1
Mather & Platt (Established 1845) 1
McIndoe, George Archiebald, Born c1961 1
Melbourne-Cooper, Arthur, 1874 - 1961 1
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 1
Monte, Richard, 1877 - 1953 1
Moss Gear Company Ltd (Established 1910) 1
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 1
Ohmy Circus (c1867 - 1920) 1
Orton, George, 1843 - 1924 1
P.C. Sorcar, Junior, Born 1946 1
Pat Collins Fun Fairs (Established 1899) 1
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 1
Prince of Wales Theatre (Established 1884) (London) 1
Proctors Funfairs (Established c1870) 1
Pugh, Digger, c1902 - 1985 1
Pugh, John Wallace, Born 1938 1
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