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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

Billy Bellhouse Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0038
Scope and Contents

Photographs, handbills, newspaper reports and financial records relating to Billy Bellhouse and his life as a wall of death rider as well as other performers.

Dates: 1914 - 1960; 2016

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

Cyril Critchlow Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0089
Scope and Contents The Cyril Critchlow collection contains programmes, posters, handbills, books and magic journals, many of which relate to shows in Blackpool where Cyril resided and includes material on entertainment venues such as Blackpool’s North Pier, Central Pier, South Pier, Tower Circus and a small collection of programmes from other national venues. Additionally, it contains circus photographs and postcards mainly of the Ohmy Circus and Sanger Circus including individual circus troupes and performers...
Dates: c1837 - 2008

Digger Pugh Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0179
Scope and Contents

Archive of the Digger Pugh family including newspaper cuttings, photographs, negatives, business records, programmes, research material, posters and films.

Dates: c1930 - 2010

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

Sanger Circus Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0154
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1850 - 1945

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Bertram Mills Circus (1920 - 1967) 4
Billy Smart's Circus (c1946 - 2006) 4
Circus Krone (Established 1905) 4
Austen Brothers Circus (Established 1974) 3
Blackpool Tower Circus (Established 1894) 3
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Boswell's Circus (1882 - 2015) 3
Cairoli, Charlie, 1910 - 1980 3
Chipperfield's Circus (Established c1800) 3
Great Yarmouth Hippodrome (Established 1903) 3
Lord George Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 3
Lord John Sanger Circus (Established c1880) 3
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1919 - 2017) 3
Sanger, George, 1825 - 1911 3
Sanger, John, 1819 - 1889 3
W. E. Berry Ltd (1888 - 2004) 3
Althoff Circus (c1675 - 1999) 2
Argyle Theatre of Varieties (c1868 - 1945) 2
Astley, Philip, 1742 - 1814 2
Barrett, Norman, Born 1935 2
Belle Vue (1836 - 1982) 2
Bostock and Wombwell Menagerie (c1846 - 1931) 2
Chapman, Ellen, 1831 - 1899 2
Chipperfield, Jimmy (James), 1912 - 1990 2
Chipperfield, Mary, 1938 - 2014 2
Circus Busch (1903 - 1999) 2
Circus Busch-Roland (c1884 - 2018) 2
Circus Knie (Established 1803) 2
Circus Medrano (Established 1875) 2
Circus Pinder (Established 1854) 2
Cirkus Merano (1975 - 2015) 2
Cirque d'Hiver Bouglione (Established 1852) 2
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. Circus (Established c1957) 2
Cole Bros. Circus (c1884 - 1957) 2
Cottle, Gerry, 1945 - 2021 2
Crystal Palace (1851 - 1936) 2
Dodd, Ken, 1927 - 2018 2
Duffy's Circus (Established c1800) 2
Fossett's Circus (Established c1870 - 1879) 2
Gandey's Circus (Established c1918) 2
Gerry Cottle's Circus (1974 - 2003) 2
Glasgow Empire Theatre (1897 - 1963) 2
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1778 - 1837 2
Jamieson, David, 1949 - 2017 2
Jay, Peter, Born 1944 2
Kelvin Hall (Established 1918) 2
Merchant, Billy (Little Billy), 1919 - 2001 2
Mills, Cyril Bertram, 1902 - 1991 2
Ohmy Circus (c1867 - 1920) 2
Olympia London (Established 1886) 2
Paulo Circus (Established c1900 - 1910) 2
Popov, Oleg, 1930 - 2016 2
Robert Brothers Circus (Established 1944) 2
Rogana, Born 1933 2
Rosaire's Circus & Zoo (Established 1904) 2
Sanger's Allied Circus (Established 1854) 2
Thames Television (Established 1968) 2
The Great Ohmy, c1852 - 1931 2
The London Palladium (Established 1910) 2
Wilsons Group Services (Established c1860) 2
World's Fair Publications Limited (Established 1904) 2
Yokoi, Lilly, Born 1929 2
Adelphi Theatre (Established 1806) 1
Anderson, Moira, Born 1938 1
Anderton and Rowland (Established c1854 - 1879) 1
Angolpark (Established 1910) 1
Arnold, Tom, 1897 - 1969 1
Astley's Amphitheatre (1773 - 1891) 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
Battersea Park Amusement Park (1858 - 1972) 1
Batty, William, 1801 - 1868 1
Beatty, Clyde, 1903 - 1965 1
Bellhouse, Billy (William), 1907 - 1980 1
Beverly Sisters (c1943 - 2009) 1
Big Daddy, 1930 - 1997 1
Bingley Hall (1850 - 1984) 1
Blackpool Hippodrome (1895 - 2014) 1
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Established 1896) 1
Blondin, Charles, 1824 - 1897 1
Bobby Robert's Super Circus (1993 - 2011) 1
Boone, Pat, Born 1934 1
Booth, William, 1829 - 1912 (The General) 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
Chaplin, Charles, 1889 - 1977 1
Chapman Circus (1928 - 1940) 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 Friends Association of Great Britain (Established 1934) 1
Circus Ginnett (Established c1800) 1
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