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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

David Robinson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0123
Scope and Contents

This collection contains rare posters, handbills, photographs, postcards, newspaper cuttings, catalogues and books on travelling exhibitions, speciality acts, magic, circus, performing animals and freak shows.

Dates: 1728 - 1997
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Enquirer Printing Company Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0125
Scope and Contents

This collection of printed material produced by the Enquirer Job Printing Company contains American sideshow and freak show posters mainly from the Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not’ franchise and a poster sampler that was taken around by salesmen from the company.

Dates: 1869; c1930 - 1949
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

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
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

National Fairground and Circus Archive Collection

 Collection
Reference code: NFA0092
Scope and Contents

Contains thousands of posters, programmes, photographs, handbills, original documents, specialist journals, newspapers and a library containing publications on all the areas of collecting

Dates: c1700 - 2020
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Norman Family Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0087
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photographs, business papers, newspaper cuttings typed pages and notes (probably for an autobiography) with some correspondence about a proposed book. There are also some costumes and props.

Dates: c1930 - 1969
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
The Agricultural Hall (1862 - 1943) 2
Tilley, Vesta, 1864 - 1952 2
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Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 2
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
Assembly Rooms (1810 - 1819) 1
Barnes, Bill (William), 1920 - 2019 1
Barnum, P. T., 1810 - 1891 1
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 1
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 1
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 1
Bramwell Taylor, John, c1912 - 2003 1
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) (Established 1920) 1
British Fairground Society (BFS) (Established c1950) 1
Bruce, Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin, 1766 - 1841 1
Burnaby, Frederick Gustavus, Colonel, 1842 - 1885 1
Chang & Eng, 1811 - 1874 1
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
Cruikshank, George, 1792 - 1878 1
Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 1
Downie, Graham, Born 1941 (Fairground Enthusiast) 1
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 1
Enquirer Job Printing Co. (Founded c1880) 1
Forde, Florrie, 1875 - 1940 1
Friendship Circle of Showland Fans. (FCSF) (c1940 - 1969) 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
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 1
Messrs. Hamilton (c1848 - 1923) 1
National Fairground and Circus Archive. NFCA (Established 1994) 1
Norman, Tom, 1860 - 1930 (The Silver King) 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
Ripley, Robert (LeRoy), 1890 - 1949 1
Robinson, David, Born 1930 1
Royal Alhambra Palace (1858 - 1936) (London) 1
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 1
Savoy Cinema (1938 - 1959) 1
Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer (1793 - 1864) 1
Sickert, Walter, 1860 - 1942 1
Stanley, Henry Morton, Sir, 1841 - 1904 1
The Bedford Music Hall (1861 - 1959) 1
The London Coliseum (1827 - 1875) 1
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 1
Thumb, Tom, 1838 - 1883 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
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