Black and white photograph of George Holloway senior at the top of a ladder during unsupported balancing act at an outdoor park or performance area. At the bottom of the ladder are two men.

Black and white photograph of George Holloway senior holding a baby that is sat on a horse, brother James Holloway on his right and Abe Holloway on his left standing next to a black performer or circus worker. All are stood in front of a showman's wagon, with inscription reading 'The Champion Wire Performers of the World'.

Photographs, slides, newspaper cuttings related to the Biddall family and photographs of Kirkaldy Fair created for a documentary on Scottish fairs.

Photograph of a large group of people with trophy and framed presentation. The presentation was to George Sanger to mark his retirement from the circus in 1905. George is seated on the front row to the left of the trophy. Other members of the Sanger Family are present including John Sanger on the second row right next to the cup, George James Sanger No.3 top row, James Sanger top row 3rd from the right and also Peter Hoffman back row left of the cup.

Photograph of a tableau wagon from Lord George Sanger Circus procession depicting Britannia with a lion and a lamb. Britannia was originally played by Ellen Sanger wife of Lord George Sanger, however, this Britannia is most likely to be Georgina Coleman daughter of Laurina Sanger who is noted as playing the role after her grandmother Ellen.

Collection of early films related to the first year of film-making in America and the United Kingdom and nineteenth century magic lantern slides, letter, film catalogues and photographic plates.

Programmes for German circuses including Circus Krone, Aladin, German National Circus, Circus Stey, Circus Nock, Circus Bavaria, Circus Royal, Friedrichstadt-Palast, Alberti, Cirkus Frankello, Hagenbeck, Brumbach and others, containing colour illustrations and photographs on the front covers, inside black and white and colour photographs of perfomers and acts with text, programme and commercial advertising.

DV cassette tapes relating to Albert & Friends Instant Circus.

This collection contains material from Gerry Cottle’s personal collection and has examples of flyers, programmes, vouchers and posters from Cottle and Austen, Circus of Horrors and Cottle’s Circus

Abstract colour illustration of a woman in a gold leotard and top hat surrounded by multicoloured balloons, one with a face and two with hands, with a rainbow above and a pattern of purple lines below, background cream, type red, black and blue

Dumfries, Park Farm Showfield. Yasmine Smart and her horses. Colour illustration of many circus acts including a woman being carried in the mouth of an elephant, a man performing on the suspended spinning wheel, a clown, two Chinese dragons and three horses, background red, pink and white, type multicoloured

Dudley, Zoo Car Park, 3 to 7 December. El Hakim fakir, the big wheel of death, Rani the TV elephant act, Sue Lacey's tigers, Pam Enos famous football dogs, David Konyot clown company. Colour illustration of a cartoon clothed elephant putting up a poster, with a mouse in clown costume standing beside him, background red brick pattern and white, type multicoloured

London, Wembley Exhibition Halls, 24 December to 10 January. Jeremy Beadle. Colour illustration with large images of a ringmaster, a tiger and a woman riding an elephant, and smaller images of fun fair rides, a clown, zebras, llamas, a camel and a man being fired from a cannon, background blue, type multicoloured

Wembley Exhibition Halls. Colour photograph of Jeremy Beadle wearing a red tail jacket and black trousers on bottom left corner with arms open wide and a fairground at night on the background on the front cover, inside introduction to Jeremy Beadle, colour and black and white photographs of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre, followed by articles on circus and fairground topics and commercial advertising, 8p.p.

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.

Bristol, Bath Road, 23 December to 14 January. Colour illustration of a clown holding a giant sphere, a lion, a tiger, a zebra and an elephant, background blue with snow falling, type multicoloured

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.

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.