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Christopher Palmer Collection
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.
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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- Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
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- Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 2
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- Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
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- Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 2
- Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2
- Rogana, Born 1933 2
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- Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 2
- Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 2
- Thames Television (Established 1968) 2
- W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 2
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- Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
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- Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
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- Aznavour, Charles, 1924 - 2018 1
- Barbette, 1899 - 1973 1
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- Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 1
- Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 1
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- Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
- Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
- Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 1
- Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 1
- Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
- Boone, Pat, Born 1934 1
- Booth, William, 1829 - 1912 (The General) 1
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- Bostock, Frank C., 1866 - 1912 1
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- Circus Sarrasani (c1902 - 1977) 1
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- Circus of Horrors (Established 1995) 1
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- 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
- Essex, David, Born 1947 1
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- Giffords Circus (Established 2000) 1
- Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 1
- Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 1
- Hall by the Sea (1870 - 1919) 1
- Hamilton, David, Born 1938 1
- Hassan, Ali, Born c1876 1
- Hengler Grand Cirque (1844 - 1924) 1
- Horn, Rudy, 1933 - 2018 1 + ∧ less
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