Performers
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive
Posters, c1800 - 2011
Series
Reference code: 178R47
Scope and Contents
A wide range of British and international circus and menagerie posters ranging from the 19th to the 21st century including Astley's Amphitheatre, Pablo Fanque, Polito, Bostock and Wombwell, Ducrow, Cooke, Hengler, Sanger, Smart, Gerry Cottle, Bertram Mills, Chipperfield's, Robert Brothers, Fossett, Blackpool Tower, Billy Russell, Belle Vue, Great Yarmouth Hippodrome, Austen Brothers and many more.
Dates:
c1800 - 2011