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Billy Bellhouse Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0038
Scope and Contents

Photographs, handbills, newspaper reports and financial records relating to Billy Bellhouse and his life as a wall of death rider as well as other performers.

Dates: 1914 - 1960; 2016

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

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Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 2
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 2
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 2
Adelphi Theatre (Established 1806) 1
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Angolpark (Established 1910) 1
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 1
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
Bellhouse, Billy (William), 1907 - 1980 1
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 1
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 1
Blackpool Hippodrome (1895 - 2014) 1
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 1
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 1
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 1
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 1
Chaplin, Charles, 1889 - 1977 1
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 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
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
Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 1
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 1
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 1
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
Jay, Peter, Born 1944 1
Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 1
Kelvin Hall (Established 1918) 1
King, Hetty, 1883 - 1972 1
Leno, Dan, 1860 - 1904 1
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 1
Ohmy Circus (c1867 - 1920) 1
Olympia London (Established 1886) 1
P.C. Sorcar, Junior, Born 1946 1
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 1
Prince of Wales Theatre (Established 1884) (London) 1
Pugh, Digger, c1902 - 1985 1
Pugh, John Wallace, Born 1938 1
Raffles, Joan, 1925 - 2009 1
Raffles, Mark, Born 1922 1
Robert Brothers Circus (Established 1944) 1
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 1
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 1
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 1
Taylor's Printers, Wombwell, Yorks (Established c1890) 1
The Alhambra Theatre (Established 1914) (Bradford) 1
The Great Ohmy, c1852 - 1931 1
The London Palladium (Established 1910) 1
The Ohmy Sisters (c1910 - 1914) 1
The Palace Theatre (Established 1891) (London) 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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