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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.
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
Sanger Circus Collection
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.
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- Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
- Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2
- Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 2
- Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
- Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 2
- Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 2
- Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 2
- Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 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's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 2
- Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 2
- Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 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
- Assembly Rooms (1810 - 1819) 1
- Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 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
- Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 1
- Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 1
- Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
- Booth, William, 1829 - 1912 (The General) 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
- Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 1
- Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 1
- Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 1
- Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1
- Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 1
- Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 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 Pinder (Established 1854) 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
- 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
- Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 1
- Doddles, c1877 - 1967 1
- Ducrow, Andrew (1793-1842) 1
- Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain (Established 1977) 1
- Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 1
- Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
- Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 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
- Hall by the Sea (1870 - 1919) 1
- Hassan, Ali, Born c1876 1
- Hicks, William, Colonel, 1830 - 1883 1
- Horn, Rudy, 1933 - 2018 1
- Huxter, Percy, 1890 - 1960 1
- Hylton, Millie, 1870 - 1920 1 + ∧ less
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