Showman
Found in 1164 Collections and/or Records:
Invoices and Receipts, 1931 - 1956
Invoices and receipts related to the Dobson family business in the fairground, including correspondence with the Showmen's Guild, the purchase of a juvenile ride, application for ground at Birmingham Onion Fair and market and fair tolls.
Italy Film, 1966
Amateur film shot by George Bolesworth of family holidays abroad. 8mm format, Photax brand. Silent. Colour.
J. Coneley and Sons Amusement Fair Poster, c1980 - 1989
Poster left blank for overprinting location and date. Red and black type over yellow background with illustration of the dodgems in black in the centre. Printed by Wilsons printers Ltd. Leicester.
J. Poole's Myriorama Booklet, c1900 - 1999
J. Poole's Myriorama Booklet, c1900 - 1999
Jack Leeson Collection
Photographs and negatives, both collected and taken by him as well as notebooks with detailed lists of every fair visited. Jack Leeson used an elaborate system of cross-referencing which match the photographs and Jack's account of the fair. Also included are letters, scrapbooks and a collection of records of fairground music and some fairground models.
Jack Wilkinson Collection
Jammy Odd and Ends Film, 1966
Amateur film shot by George Bolesworth. 8mm format. Silent. Colour.
Jay Miller's Circus Poster, Wednesday 12 - Friday 21 August c1980s
Shaldon. Colour lithograph of clown face on centre over white background with red and black type.
Jimmy Botton, Ann Weltry, Eileen, John Ling, Henry Bolsover, Ronny Bently Film, 1966
Amateur film shot by George Bolesworth. 8mm format, Dixons brand. Silent. Colour.
Jimmy Williams Collection
Black and white copy prints and negatives and three items of ephemera relating to the Williams family.
Joe Hives Collection
Black and white photographs of fairground rides, transport, sideshows, boxing booths and showmen and women.
Joe Stumcke Collection
This collection contains scrapbooks, programmes, photographs of performers at the Kursaal, Bertram Mills Circus and sideshows as well as some business records related to the Stumcke family and their work at the Kursaal and Bertram Mills Circus.
John and Linda, Widding and Charlie Film, c1959 - 1972
Amateur film shot by George Bolesworth. 8mm format, Dixons brand. Silent. Colour.
John and Mabel Strudwick Collection
This collection contains black and white and colour photographs and postcards, some originals and some copies, including one World War I soldier photograph, and some colour photographs, as well as a newspaper clipping, a baptism certificate and a recent letter from BBC Northamptonshire.
John Everton Sanger's Birth Certificate, 4 January 1917
John Everton Sanger's birth certificate.
John Gale Collection
Photographs taken by John Gale, including a collection of negatives from his favourite fairs: Newcastle Town Moor, Durham Miners' Gala, Houghton Feast, Northallerton and his home town of Wolsingham. There are also a number of newspaper cuttings, circus and rally programmes.
John Martin Turner's Circus Research Collection
This collection contains John Turner’s research on circus people indexes, which lists circus performers from the Victorian age onwards. It contains notebooks, index cards, photocopies and pictures gathered from a number of repositories and libraries during John Turner’s life and used for articles published in a variety of journals and magazines, and for the numerous books that he published during his lifetime. The collection also contains some posters and programmes