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.

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

Colour illustration of ice skating elephant wearing a pink skirt, ice skating clown and three ice skating showgirls on a blue background on the front cover, inside introduction, black and white photographs of acts and performers, programme in the centre and commercial advertising. Printed by W. E. Berry, Nesfield Works, Bradford, 6p.p.

Cottle and Austen's Christmas Circus. Blue illustration of an elephant wearing a coat with details of event on a pink background on the front cover, inside programme and different circus scenes for colouring, 6p.p.

Wembley. Colour illustration of roaring tiger's face on a blue background and yellow and red type on the front cover, inside history of circus, programme and colouring book, also reproduction of two circus poster advertising upcoming circus shows, front cover image repeated on back cover, 6p.p.

Battersea Park Hippodrome. Colour illustration of roaring tiger's face on a blue background and yellow and red type on the front cover, inside history of circus, programme and colouring book, also reproduction of two circus poster advertising upcoming circus shows, front cover image repeated on back cover, 6p.p.

Amateur and commercial films on multiple formats, focusing mainly on Circus but also including transport, fairs, fairground rides and other types of travelling entertainments.

Wembley Halls 1, 2 and 3. Colour photograph of Jeremy Beadle riding an elephant in circle in the centre of the front cover, over a yellow background, inside introduction, Gerry Cottle's story, colour photographs of acts and performers, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 18p.p.

Wembley Grand Hall. Programme on the centre in green type over yellowish background and illustration of seal balancing a Christmas pudding on its nose on the front, on reverse history of circus by Sandy Davidson.

Wembley Grand Hall. Programme on the centre in green type over yellowish background and illustration of seal balancing a Christmas pudding on its nose on the front, on reverse history of circus by Sandy Davidson.

Royal Silver Jubilee programme. Blue and white illustration of clown on the left, roaring lion in the centre and ice skater on the right with circus tent and elephants and horses on the background and international flags above on the top section and programme below on the front cover, inside blue and white photographs of the circus and text, on back cover blue and white photographs of performers and text, 2p.p.

Gerry Cottle Circus programmes including Circus of Horrors, Cottle and Austen, Cottle-Chipperfield Circus, Continental Berlin Circus, Moscow State Circus and Gerry Cottle's Circus abroad.

Blue illustration of an elephant wearing a coat with details of event on a blue background on the front cover, inside programme and different circus scenes for colouring, 6p.p.

Three fold pamphlet containing black and white photographs and various essays about Gerry Cottle's circus, the site of the circus, safety and comfort, animals and noise and nuisance.

Colour photograph of performers posing in the circus ring and green, yellow and purple type on the front cover, inside introduction to Gerry Cottle's story and his family with colour photographs and various articles on animal welfare, the history of circus and others with colour photographs, programme missing, 6p.p.

Black and white photograph of woman and tiger on a platform in a circus ring and a red border with white stars on the front cover, inside black and white photographs of Mary Chipperfield, Gerry Cottle and an elephant act and text and programme, on the back cover black and white photogrphas of The Loonies and The Cimarro Brothers with text, 2p.p.

Colour illustration of head of clown on top right holding a circles containing circus acts including a woman in a white outfit holding a tiger, a man with his head inside a lion's mouth, a trapeze act, and elephant and a zebra. Four fold brouchure with information about the Cottle family circus and colour photographs of acts and performers inside and added insert programme, colour photograph of Susan Lacey with tiger on reverse.