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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

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

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

The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0054
Scope and Contents

The main extent of the collection contains yearbooks, meetings and minutes, correspondence and a record of day to day activities within The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.

Dates: 1904 - 2023

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Names
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
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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
Collins, Pat (Patrick), 1859 - 1943 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
Horne, Thomas, Reverend, c1850 - 1918 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
Mills, Bertram, 1873 - 1938 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
The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain (Established 1889) 1
Thurston, Charles, c1882 - 1928 1
Toulmin, Vanessa, Professor, Born 1967 1
Victoria, Vesta, 1873 - 1951 1
Webb, Matthew, 1848 - 1883 1
Whimsical Walker, 1851 - 1934 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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