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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

Charles Taylor Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0069
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1937 - 1989

Christopher Palmer Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0105
Scope and Contents

Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.

Dates: 1973 - 1983

Circus Friends Association Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0122
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1795 - 2020

Fred Holmes Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0065
Scope and Contents

A collection of material including posters, programmes, handbills, newspaper cuttings and photographs relating to the shows of Jasper Redfern mainly in the Sheffield and surrounding areas. The collection was created by Fred Holmes who was a manager for Jasper Redfern of Sheffield, a pioneer of early film and exhibition. Jasper Redfern was the first man to show films in Sheffield. Also included in the collection is correspondence between Fred Holmes and Jasper Redfern.

Dates: c1895 - 1925

George Williams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0118
Scope and Contents

Collection of early films related to the first year of film-making in America and the United Kingdom and nineteenth century magic lantern slides, letter, film catalogues and photographic plates.

Dates: 1890 - 1896

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

John Bramwell Taylor Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0086
Scope and Contents The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...
Dates: c1786 - 2003

Violet Bartram Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0195
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs, negatives and postcards of fairgrounds, amusement parks, circus and performers, a newspaper cutting and a handbill.

Dates: c1902 - 1953

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Acres, Birt, 1854 - 1918 1
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 1
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
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Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
Askey, Arthur Bowden, 1900 - 1982 1
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 2
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 1
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 2
Aznavour, Charles, 1924 - 2018 1
Barbette, 1899 - 1973 1
Barltrop, Chris, Born c1958 1
Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 2
Barrett's Canadian Circus (1925 - 1956) 1
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 2
Batty, William, 1801 - 1868 1
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 3
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 1
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 2
Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 2
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2
Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
Boone, Pat, Born 1934 1
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 1
Bostock, Frank C., 1866 - 1912 1
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 2
Bramwell Taylor, John, c1912 - 2003 1
Brick, Hans, 1889 - 1972 1
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Established 1920) 1
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 2
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 1
C. Doubtfire (Amusements) Limited (Active c1950 - 1999) 1
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 3
Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 1
Carmencita, c1868 - 1910 1
Chang & Eng, 1811 - 1874 1
Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 1
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 1
Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1
Chester Royalty Theatre (1882 - 1966) 1
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 2
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 3
Circus Archaos (Established 1986) 1
Circus Barum (1878 - 2008) 1
Circus Boltini (Established c1939) 1
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 2
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 2
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 1
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 2
Circus Roncalli (Established 1976) 1
Circus Sarrasani (c1902 - 1977) 1
Circus Togni (Established c1880) 1
Circus of Horrors (Established 1995) 1
Cirkus Arnardo (Established 1949) 1
Cirkus Benneweis (1887 - 2015) 1
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 1
Cirque Jean Richard (c1957 - 1990) 1
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
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 2
Court, Alfred, 1883 - 1977 1
Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 1
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 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
Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 2
Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 2
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 2
Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 2
Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 2
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 2
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 2
Olympia London (Established 1886) 2
Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2
Rogana, Born 1933 2
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 2
Sandow, Eugene, 1867 - 1925 2
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 2
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 2
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 2
Thames Television (Established 1968) 2
The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 2
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 2
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 2
Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 2
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