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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
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Bill Barnes Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0172
Scope and Contents
Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.
Dates:
1881 - 2017
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Testo Family Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0032
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises photographs, business records, articles, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, advertising material, family research and items of personal archive related to the Testo family history in the fairground and circus
Dates:
1898 - 1999
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
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- Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 2
- Karno, Fred, 1866 - 1941 2
- Roberts, Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts, 1832 - 1914 2
- Tilley, Vesta, 1864 - 1952 2
- Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
- Assembly Rooms (1810 - 1819) 1
- Barnes, Bill (William), 1920 - 2019 1
- Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 1
- Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
- Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 1
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Established 1920) 1
- Bruce, Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin, 1766 - 1841 1
- Burnaby, Frederick Gustavus, Colonel, 1842 - 1885 1
- Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 1
- Cruikshank, George, 1792 - 1878 1
- Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 1
- Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 1
- Gitana, Gertie (1887 - 1957) 1
- Gompertz. Moses (c1812 - 1893) 1
- Gordon, Charles George, General, 1833 - 1885 1
- Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 1
- Hicks, William, Colonel, 1830 - 1883 1
- Hylton, Millie, 1870 - 1920 1
- Jolson, Al, c1886 - 1950 1
- KaMpande, Cetshwayo, c1826 - 1884 1
- King, Hetty, 1883 - 1972 1
- Leno, Dan, 1860 - 1904 1
- Ling Soo, Chung, 1861 - 1918 1
- Messrs. Hamilton (c1848 - 1923) 1
- Oxford Music Hall (1861 - 1926) 1
- Pasha, Emin, 1840 - 1892 1
- Pepper, John Henry, 1821 - 1990 1
- Poole's Myrioramas (1837 - 1937) 1
- Poole, Ada Violet, 1875 - 1954 1
- Poole, Charles William, 1858 - 1918 1
- Poole, Charles William, Jr., 1880 - [?] 1
- Poole, Charles, 1821 - 1877 1
- Poole, Elizabeth, 1856 - 1937 1
- Poole, Florence Henrietta, 1873 - [?] 1
- Poole, Fred (Frederick), 1867 - 1907 1
- Poole, George Walter, 1828 - 1877 1
- Poole, George, 1849 - 1929 1
- Poole, Gordon, 1893 - 1970 1
- Poole, Henry, 1850 - 1925 1
- Poole, John Kenneth Stafford, 1911 - 1998 1
- Poole, John Reginald, 1882 - 1950 1
- Poole, Joseph Wolseley, 1878 - 1954 1
- Poole, Joseph, 1847 - 1906 1
- Poole, Lillian Maude, 1879 - 1946 1
- Pryce, Elijah, 1847 - 1935 1
- Putney Cinema (c1910 - 1976) 1
- Reeves, Billie (William), 1864 - 1943 1
- Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 1
- Royal Alhambra Palace (1858 - 1936) (London) 1
- Savoy Cinema (1938 - 1959) 1
- Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer (1793 - 1864) 1
- Sickert, Walter, 1860 - 1942 1
- Stanley, Henry Morton, Sir, 1841 - 1904 1
- Testo Family, Established c1700 1
- Testo, Felix, c1799 - 1879 1
- Testo, Felix, junior, c1838 - 1910 1
- Testo, William, 1840 - 1899 1
- The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 1
- The Bedford Music Hall (1861 - 1959) 1
- The London Coliseum (1827 - 1875) 1
- Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 1
- Victoria, Vesta, 1873 - 1951 1
- Webb, Matthew, 1848 - 1883 1
- Wilton's Music Hall (Established 1859) 1
- Wolseley, Garnet Joseph, Field Marshal, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Sir, 1833 - 1913 1
- Young, Anthony, [?] - 1878 1 + ∧ less
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