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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1164 Collections and/or Records:

Minutes of Council Meeting of The Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, 1935 - 1940

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 1: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.3
Scope and Contents Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red leather spine and corners containing items dicussed on meetings of the Central Council, including leases, complaints, information on deceased members, information on fairs, benevolent funds, the Guild constitution, parliamentary business, licences, the caravan, annual reports, election of officials, bye-laws, sectional resolutions, manufacturing, accounts and business information among others. Signed by the Guild's Chairman Bertam Mills,...
Dates: 1935 - 1940
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of Council Meeting of The Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, 1940 - 1944

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 1: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.4
Scope and Contents Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red leather spine and corners containing items dicussed on meetings of the Central Council, including section updates, updates of the appeals committee, details of deceased members, war and fallen soldiers updates, Warrior's Day fund, supplies of materials, history of the Guild, reports on fairs, donation to French showmen, reduction in age of lorry drivers, report on the ministry of food, showmen's vehicles haulage work, accounts, appeal...
Dates: 1940 - 1944
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of Council Meeting of The Guild of Great Britain and Ireland, 1944 - 1946

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 1: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.5
Scope and Contents Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red leather spine and corners containing items dicussed on meetings of the Central Council, including updates from the sections, delegates expenses, updates on deceased members, supplies and materials, licences, dim-out regulations, updates from fairs, parliamentary updates, benevolent funds, updates from the Industrial Amusement Council, bye-laws, delegates expenses, appeals, year books, general secretary's report, parliamentary bills, road...
Dates: 1944 - 1946
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild, 1918 - 1957

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178H40.1-14
Scope and Contents

Minutes of meetings of the Showmen's Guild comprising Central Council meetings, Special General meetings, Management Committee meetings, Mutual Agreement meetings, Annual and Extraordinary meettins, meetings of the Appeals Committee and War Emergency Committee meetings.

Dates: 1918 - 1957
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records

Minutes of Special General Meetings, 1951 - 1957

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 2: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.13
Scope and Contents

Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red spine and corners containing information on rules, General Secretary reports, accounts, appointments, election of officials and benevolent funds. Signed by the Chairmen Arthur Bates, W. Bagnall and John Collins. Manuscript and typescript.

Dates: 1951 - 1957
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of the Annual Meetings and Extraordinary Meetings of Members, 1930 - 1951

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 1: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.7
Scope and Contents

Bound minutes of meetings in red notebook containing annual accounts, elections of officials, general secretary's reports, admitance of member's wives in the meetings, accounts, rules, update on deceased members, benevolent funds, war updates among other matters. Signed by the Presidents W. Wilson and B. Hobson and Chairmen J. E. Browne, Charles Thurston, William Pullen and William Lennards. Manuscript.

Dates: 1930 - 1951
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of the Appeals Committee Meetings, 1945 - 1946

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 2: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.9
Scope and Contents

Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red spine and corners containing information on section updates and issues, fairs, appeals and fines among other matters. Signed by the Chairman Charles Thurston. Manuscript.

Dates: 1945 - 1946
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of the Management Committee Meetings, 1935 - 1939

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 2: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.10
Scope and Contents Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red spine and corners containing information on bianual meetings, bye-laws, section updates and issues, benevolent and emergency funds, fairs, complaints, appeals, diesel oil and other supplies, finances, licences, planning, memberships, parliamentary bills, questionnaires, insurance and investments, General Secretary's report, caravans and diesel oil tax, among other matters. Signed by the President Bertram Mills and the Chairman J. E. Browne....
Dates: 1935 - 1939
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of the Management Committee Meetings, 1939 - 1945

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 2: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.11
Scope and Contents Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red spine and corners containing information on section updates and issues, appeals, performing rights, fairs, diesel oil and other supplies, General Secretary's report, vehicles and gas raids, the Spitfire fund, government's compulsory insurance scheme, accounts, Charter Fairs preservation, the use of traction engines by the Ministry of Agriculture, memberships, benevolent funds, the war damage act and compensation and rules among other...
Dates: 1939 - 1945
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of the Management Committee Meetings, 1945

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 2: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.12
Scope and Contents

Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red spine and corners containing information on section updates and issues, supplies, road fund licences, the National Caravan Council, war charity funds, insurance and taxation, ride manufacturing, parliamentary bills, General Secretary's annual reports, accounts, benevolent funds, the National Amusements Council, rules, bye-laws, year books and the roll of honour among other matters. Signed by the Chairman William Lennards. Manuscript.

Dates: 1945
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of the Report of Proceedings Meetings, 1928

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 1: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.6
Scope and Contents

Bound minutes of meetings in red notebook containing balance sheets, bye-laws, parliamentary bills, updates on fairs, information on ongoing memorial funds and appeals, complaints, proposals for alterations to rules, updates on year books and traction owners levy among others. Typescript.

Dates: 1928
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Minutes of the War Emergency Committee Meetings, 1940 - 1945

 Item — Box Showmen's Guild Box 2: Series 178H40
Reference code: 178H40.8
Scope and Contents Bound minutes of meetings in green fabric with red spine and corners containing information on Pat Collins' black out fair, issues from sections of the Guild, fairs, comfort fund for soldiers, upfates from the Fairground Fairs Association, rents, updates from the War Emergency Committee, rationing, lorry drivers age limit reduction, exceptions from military service, firearms, history of the Guild, delegates expenses, subscriptions, rules, Spitfire fund, bye-laws and rules for lighting among...
Dates: 1940 - 1945
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain Collection / Business Records / Minutes of Meetings of the Showmen's Guild

Miscellaneous Newspaper Cuttings, c1995 - 2005

 File — Box Eleanor Rayner Box 1: Series 178B50; Series 178G67; Series 178K57; Series 178M23; Series 178R59; Series 178V25; Series 178Z73
Reference code: 178G67.2
Scope and Contents Miscellaneous newspaper cuttings, compiled by Eleanor Rayner. Notably includes a photocopy of an article about showman, Billy Rayner and his flea circus, illustrated with a photograph of the circus tent at the Goose Fair in 1957 (n.d.), a photocopy of a newspaper article announcing the marriage if James Greenhow and Eva-Marie Chadwick (n.d.), and an article, recording the memories of showman boxer, Matt Moran (later known as Matt Watson), taken from the Manchester Evening News (1 October...
Dates: c1995 - 2005
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Eleanor Rayner Collection / Newspaper Cuttings

Monograph on Tom Norman and Joseph Merrick, c1970 - 1990

 Item — Box Norman Family Box 1: Series 178B19; Series 178I13
Reference code: 178B19.10
Scope and Contents

A monograph about the relationship between Tom Norman and Joseph Merrick, titled, ‘Even Shylock was entitled to his pound of flesh - but not one drop of blood. Treves got both with a knighthood to boot! The elephant man who was presented by my father Tom Norman, The Silver King’, typescript. 3pp.

Dates: c1970 - 1990
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Norman Family Collection / Monographs, Articles and Manuscripts

Monographs and Articles, c1900 - 2001

 Series
Reference code: 178B2
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of material used for research and articles by Professor Vanessa Toulmin.

Dates: c1900 - 2001
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / O'Connor-Toulmin Family Collection

Monographs and Articles, c1927 - 1969

 Series
Reference code: 178B14
Scope and Contents

Articles and monographs on fairground engineering, architecture and personalities by various authors including David Braithwaite.

Dates: c1927 - 1969
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / David Braithwaite Collection

Monographs and Articles, 1965 - 1997

 Series
Reference code: 178B9
Scope and Contents

Articles and monographs on fairgrounds, boxing booths and education.

Dates: 1965 - 1997
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Ron Kinder Collection

Monographs and Research Material, c1851 - 1999

 Series
Reference code: 178B16
Scope and Contents

Various items of family history and an excerpt from a book on fortune telling.

Dates: c1851 - 1999
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Testo Family Collection

Monographs and Research Material, c1860 - 1999

 Series
Reference code: 178B20
Scope and Contents

Monographs and research material on the Ohmy family.

Dates: c1860 - 1999
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Cyril Critchlow Collection

Monographs and Research Material , c1900 - 2018

 File — Box Sanger Family Box 1
Reference code: 178B40
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of photographs and articles related to George Sanger, Sanger Circus and other related history and a biography of George Sanger.

Dates: c1900 - 2018
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Sanger Family Collection

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