Pleasure gardens
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Belle Vue Handbill, c1848
Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 2: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.234
Scope and Contents
Zoological gardens and museum of curiosities at Belle Vue, Hyde Road, Manchester. Folio from book advertising the zoo, Pleasure Boats, Elizabethan Maze and dancing Platform. On revere, advertising for Cole’s patent trusses and medicated Bands, 2pp.
Dates:
c1848
Belle Vue Handbill, c1848
Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 2: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.235
Scope and Contents
The Gardens and Pleasure Grounds at Belle Vue, Hyde Road, Manchester. Folio from book advertising the zoo. Other adverts on reverse, 2pp.
Dates:
c1848
Handbills, c1786 - 1968
Series — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1
Scope and Contents
Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances in London.
Dates:
c1786 - 1968
Handbills for Venues Outside London, 1789 - c1929
Sub-Series — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 2: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.208-235
Scope and Contents
Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances at venues outside London.
Dates:
1789 - c1929
John Bramwell Taylor Collection
Fonds
Reference code: NFA0086
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...
Dates:
c1786 - 2003
Found in:
National Fairground and Circus Archive