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Argyle Theatre Collection
This collection contains a large number of posters as well as business records including records of artist bookings, accounts, scrapbooks, contracts and correspondence.
Bill Barnes Collection
Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.
Charles Taylor Collection
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.
Circus Friends Association Collection
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
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- Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 2
- Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2
- Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 2
- Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
- Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 2
- Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 2
- Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 2
- Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 2
- Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 2
- Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 2
- Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 2
- Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 2
- Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 2
- Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 2
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 2
- Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, 1832 - 1914 2
- Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 2
- The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 2
- Tilley, Vesta, 1864 - 1952 2
- Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 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 1
- Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 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
- Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 1
- Batty, William, 1801 - 1868 1
- Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
- Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 1
- Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 1
- Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 1
- Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 1
- Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
- Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
- Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 1
- Bostock, Frank C., 1866 - 1912 1
- Brick, Hans, 1889 - 1972 1
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Established 1920) 1
- Bruce, Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin, 1766 - 1841 1
- Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 1
- Burnaby, Frederick Gustavus, Colonel, 1842 - 1885 1
- C. Doubtfire (Amusements) Limited (Active c1950 - 1999) 1
- Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 1
- Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 1
- Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 1
- Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1
- Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 1
- Circus Archaos (Established 1986) 1
- Circus Barum (1878 - 2008) 1
- Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 1
- Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
- Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
- Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1
- Circus Knie (Established 1803) 1
- Circus Krone (Established 1905) 1
- Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 1
- Circus Roncalli (Established 1976) 1
- Circus Sarrasani (c1902 - 1977) 1
- Circus of Horrors (Established 1995) 1
- Cirque Jean Richard (c1957 - 1990) 1
- Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 1
- Cirque du Soleil (Established 1984) 1
- Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
- Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 1
- Corrigan, Albert, c1920 - 2008 1
- Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 1
- Court, Alfred, 1883 - 1977 1
- Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 1
- Cruikshank, George, 1792 - 1878 1
- Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 1
- David Smart's Super Circus (c1980 - 1983) 1
- Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 1
- Doddles, c1877 - 1967 1
- Ducrow, Andrew (1793-1842) 1
- Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Farrar's Fun Fairs (Established 1876) 1
- Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain (Established 1977) 1
- Ford, Clifton, 1931 - 2009 1
- Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 1
- G.R. Tucker and Sons Funfairs (Established 1976) 1
- Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 1
- Giffords Circus (Established 2000) 1
- Gitana, Gertie (1887 - 1957) 1
- Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 1
- Gompertz. Moses (c1812 - 1893) 1
- Gordon, Charles George, General, 1833 - 1885 1
- Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 1
- Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
- Hassan, Ali, Born c1876 1
- Hicks, William, Colonel, 1830 - 1883 1
- Holland Amusements (Initiated c1870) 1 + ∧ less
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