Photographs, newspaper cuttings, programmes, memoirs and other items relating to the Hodson family travelling theatre. Also includes family history research material.

In Mr Papworth’s Field, South Kirkby. Jane Shore Historical Drama, Zoe The Octoroon Girl American Drama, The Tomboy songs and dances with Miss A Wynn and Joe Hodson, The Romance of Terrance O’Moore Irish play with Mr Geo Wynn and Miss Lavender Lee, A Race for Love Thriller, Babes in the Wood, A Fighting son of Belgium War Drama followed by Screaming sketch ‘Doctor cut ‘em up. Blue type on white background. Mon and Tues 21st and 22nd May-Aladdin and his wonderful lamp.

Big Show Variety ‘75. Featuring Ralph Reader ‘Mr Gang Show’ himself Jack Mozelle comedian instrumentalist, The Kedello’s supreme speciality, Bette Gilmor saucy-but nice and others. Red and blue with border.

The Al Jolson Minstrel Show featuring Clinton Ford. Red and blue type on yellow background.

The Al Jolson Minstrel Show featuring Clinton Ford. Red and blue type on yellow background.

Howell Evans and Patricia Kane in ‘The Good Olde Days’ with all star company. Red, blue and black with curtains.

Business records related to the fairground and theatre, posters and photographs of performers and showmen.

Posters advertising plays at the Holloway Theatre.

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on orange background listing the plays. Green Bushes, Fettered at Last, My Sweetheart, Mother's Dying Child, Esmeralda, Cavaliers & Roundheads or the Days of Oliver Cromwell. Printed by William North, 139 High Street.

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on pink background listing the plays. Lady Audley's Secret or the Muder in the Lime Tree Walk, Cottage in the Holly or The Widow's Wrong, Life of the Ocean Wave.

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on green background listing the plays. The Shaughraun, The Innkeeper of Abberville or The Ostler and the Robber, Dead Hang or The Will Forger, Silver King, Staff of Diamonds, Idiot of the Mountain.

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on orange background listing the plays. Aurora Floyd or The Dark Deed in the Wood, Nobody's Child or The Stolen Fortune, The Orphans or The Blind Girl of Paris, The Unknown a River Mystery, Life's Cross Roads or Treachery Exposed, Grean Hills of the Far West, laughable farce. Printed by william North, 139 High Street Twekesbury.

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on green background listing the plays. Streets of London, Jenny Foster or The Winter Robin, Leah or The Jewish Maiden's Curse, Called Back of A Blind Man's Story, Mistletoe Bough or The Mystery of the Old Oak Chest, Dumb Girl of Genoa, Robert Macaire or The Two French Jack Sheppards, laughable farce. Printed by William North, 139 High Street, Twekesbury.

Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on green background listing the plays. Mary Warner of No.15, The Female Convict, Katheleen Mavourneen or The Dream of St. Patrick's Eve, Ingomar or The Son of the Wilderness, Factory Girl of All That Glitters is not Gold.

Girl with a radio mind, she sees all, knows all. ‘Believe it or Not’. Colour illustration of bust of woman on profile holding a glass ball blindfolded on light blue and black background with black and white type.

Promotional booklet for magician Horace Goldin, "Creator of Wonders". Ilustrated cover, 24pp.

Levett's Field, Lichfield. Blue type on off white background listing the plays. The White Sheik, The Dumb Man of Manchester, Ingomar The Barbarian of A Son of the Wilderness, Klondike, Peace. Printed by Baxters, Printers, Atherstone.

Fair Field, Bewdley. Blue type on silk listing the plays. Our Lads in Red, Sentenced to Death, day performance for children Litte Hero, Sexton Blake, Man they Could Not Hang, Man Against Man, Mona or The Girl I love, comic concert and funny farce.

Colour illustration of Houdini escape in Moscow.