Designs for Bostock and Wombwell menagerie medals with lions in the centre in red and gold and blue and gold, watercolour on grey card with pencil border by Dance and Duerden medal manufacturers, Morley, Leeds.

Four photographic albums containing black and white photographs of Bostock and Wombwell menageries, including animals, employees, a range of performers, locations and travelling and setting up scenes.

Various documents related to the Bostock and Wombwell menagerie including correspondence with Birmingham Education Department, forms for contracts for ground and billposting, catalogue of animals and some stickers.

Black and white photographs and postcards of Bostock and Wombwell menarie including images of the Bostocks and some perfomers, Bidewell and two photos of Alex Day with elephants.

Front elevation of Bostock's menagerie, showing heaving carving jungle decorations, scale.

Jungle design wih statues of people and animals for Bostock's menagerie show.

Front elevation of Bostock's menagerie truck, showing heaving carving decorations, scale 3/4".

Business records comprissing minutes of meetings, books of accounts, receipts, annual statements and other documents related to the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain, Bertram Mills Circus, Hans Brick and Bostock and Wombwell.

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

Scrapbook of photographs, relating to multiple circus and acts including Chapman's Bertram Mills, Lord George Sanger's, Chipperfield's and Bostock and Wombwell's, 37p.p.

Drawings for ride fronts, shows and carts, including Chamberlain’s show front carved by W.E. Hilton, Bostock’s show front, chalk rubbing for window design, centre pay box for organs, Ghost trains, Corrigan’s front entrance, Smart and Elson sign, Frank Codona’s Speedway, Egyptian Helter Skelter design and Parry’s Famous Shows front.

Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances in London.

Black and white photographs related to Joseph Charles Heather, the Sanger Circus and the Bostock Jungle.

A collection of newspaper cuttings on circus, circus proprietors and performers and scrapbooks containing newspaper cuttings, posters, programmes and other items of ephemera, covering mainly British circuses and venues such as Belle Vue and also some international circuses.

Drawings and designs used for the decoration of fairground rides.

Original works of art including artists' prints, drawings, watercolours and paintings, and designs for circus posters.

This collection contains a large selection of archives from the Orton and Spooner Company. The collection comprises photographs and cabinet card images showing carved work, structural work and classic painted work, 4 boxes of notes, invoices and clippings, 8 drawers of plans and blueprints, 2 folders of ride specifications and order forms, accounts books and a library of source books showing turn of the century art used by the artists in the company.

Black and white photographs and postcards of the Ohmy, the Smart and the Sanger circuses and family members, including John Sanger in sailor’s uniform. Also a variety of circus performers including Mme. Morelli from the Bostock menagerie. Many of the postcards have been used for correspondence.

Black and white and colour photographs, negatives and photographic albums mainly containing images of British circus, circus performers, animals and circus personalities but also some menageries such as Bostock and Wombwell and other associated entertainments and non-British circuses taken by David Jamieson, Lindsay Temple, Den Curtis, Capt. Middleton, Jack Niblett and other photographers.