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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

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

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

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Aerialists 3
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Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 2
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 2
Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 2
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 2
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Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 2
Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 2
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 2
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 2
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 2
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 2
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 2
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 2
Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 2
Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 2
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 2
Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 2
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 2
Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2
Rogana, Born 1933 2
Thames Television (Established 1968) 2
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 2
Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 2
Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 1
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 1
Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 1
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 1
Aznavour, Charles, 1924 - 2018 1
Barbette, 1899 - 1973 1
Barltrop, Chris, Born c1958 1
Barnum & Bailey Circus (1881 - 1919) 1
Barrett's Canadian Circus (1925 - 1956) 1
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 1
Batty, William, 1801 - 1868 1
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 1
Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
Boone, Pat, Born 1934 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
Buffalo Bill, 1846 - 1917 1
Buller, Redvers Henry, General, Sir, 1839 - 1908 1
Carl Hagenbeck Circus (c1893 - 1907) 1
Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 1
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 1
Chessington World of Adventures (Established 1987) 1
Chester Royalty Theatre (1882 - 1966) 1
Circus Archaos (Established 1986) 1
Circus Barum (1878 - 2008) 1
Circus Boltini (Established c1939) 1
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 1
Circus Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 1
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 1
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 du Soleil (Established 1984) 1
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 1
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 1
Court, Alfred, 1883 - 1977 1
Craston, Joe (Joseph), 1868 - 1948 1
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 1
David Smart's Super Circus (c1980 - 1983) 1
Denver, Hal, 1909 - 1994 1
Distel, Sacha, 1933 - 2004 1
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 1
Doddles, c1877 - 1967 1
Drury Lane Theatre (Established c1660) 1
Ducrow, Andrew (1793-1842) 1
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 1
Empire Theatre (1914 - 1955) (Tonbridge) 1
Essex, David, Born 1947 1
Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain (Established 1977) 1
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 1
Fossett, Jacko, 1922 - 2004 1
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 1
Giffords Circus (Established 2000) 1
Gitana, Gertie (1887 - 1957) 1
Grand Theatre (1898 - 1957) (Luton) 1
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
Hamilton, David, Born 1938 1
Handby & Celeine (Active 1932 - 1939) 1
Hassan, Ali, Born c1876 1
Heeley Green Theatre (1920 - 2004) 1
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