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 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1141 Collections and/or Records:

Payment Slip for Tonight Show, 18 September 1956

 Item — Box Norman Family Box 4: Series 178K36; Series 178L9; Series 178P5; Series 178Q4; Series 178T29; Series 178Z25
Reference code: 178Z25.20
Scope and Contents

Payment slip for $371.25 less $37.13 comm[ission?], leaving $334.12 net for ‘Tonight’ show, issued by Music Corporation of America Artists Ltd; 1p.

Dates: 18 September 1956

Percy Jackson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0127
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground transport and showpeople taken by a variety of people including Rowland Scott and collected by Percy Jackson.

Dates: 1900 - 1970

Performing Animals Certificate of Registration, 16 April 1947

 Item — Box Norman Family Box 3: Series 178F17; Series 178H12
Reference code: 178H12.83
Scope and Contents

Certificate issued to Ralph Norman (aka Hal Denver) by the London County Council in accordance with the Performing Animals (Regulation) Act 1925.

Dates: 16 April 1947

Performing Animals Film, May - June 1895

 Item
Reference code: 178D12.3
Scope and Contents

Nitrate film by Robert Paul and Birt Acres, showing two animal acts filmed on the same wooden stage as the Boxing Kangaroo. The first sequence shows a skipping dog jumping through a hoop held by an animal trainer or showman. The second sequence shows possibly one of the earliest tributes to the Skirt Dance on film, with a dog or monkey performing the dance with the aid of its trainer.

Dates: May - June 1895

Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus Programme, 1992

 Item
Reference code: 178K43.330
Scope and Contents

Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Colour photograph of circus ring and curtain with neon sign above reading Peter Jay's Superdrome Circus and performers waiving underneath on the front cover, inside introduction, colour photographs of acts and performers with text, programme in the centre and commercial advertising, 8p.p.

Dates: 1992

Photo of Hal Denver, with Letter Enquiring About an Answering Machine on the Reverse, 17 October 1988

 Item — Box Norman Family Box 3: Series 178F17; Series 178H12
Reference code: 178F17.70
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of picture entitled ‘The author – Hal Denver’ (same picture found elsewhere in collection of man in jacket with check lapels and buttons) with typed letter on reverse from Pearl Denver to Answercall Ltd enquiring about use of an answering machine; typescript, 1p.

Dates: 17 October 1988

Photocopy of Last Will and Testament of Thomas Noakes, 15 March 1922

 Item — Box Norman Family Box 3: Series 178F17; Series 178H12
Reference code: 178H12.78
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of an incomplete Last Will and Testament, written by Thomas Noakes, known as Tom Norman, dated 15 March 1922; manuscript, 1p.

Dates: 15 March 1922

Photographic Album, 1902 - 1951

 Item
Reference code: 178C104.2
Scope and Contents

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of the William Rosaire family and several generations of the Decar family as well as different acts and circus and variety performers and showmen, city views in France, Persia, Argentina, Switzerland, England and Ireland, 40p.p

Dates: 1902 - 1951

Photographic Album, 1905 - 1953

 Item
Reference code: 178C57.13688
Scope and Contents Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs, amusement parks, steam engines, living wagons, fairground shows and showpeople, including Marshall, Manders, Randall Williams, Codona, Holland, Smart, Wilson, Kaye, Jervis, White, Peters, Thurston, Pat Collins and Turner at Nottingham Goose Fair, Coventry Pot Fair, Poole Fair, Ashton, Newcastle, Widnes Fair, Birmingham Whit Fair and Knutsford and other locations and showmen and a...
Dates: 1905 - 1953

Photographic Album, 1937 - 1956

 Item
Reference code: 178C57.13689
Scope and Contents Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs, steam engines, living wagons, wall of death, fairground shows and showpeople, including Corrigan, Marshall, J. Scott, Robinson, Tuby, Waddington, Butlin, Farrar, at Heckmondwyck Fair, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Holmfirth, Sheffield, Keighley, Dewsbury, Woodhouse Feast, Holbeck, Hull, Leeds and Harrogate and other locations and showmen with notes. Photographs taken and collected by...
Dates: 1937 - 1956

Photographic Album, c1950 - 1959

 Item
Reference code: 178C57.13690
Scope and Contents

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, steam engines, living wagons and showpeople, including Silcock, Pat Collins, Morley, Holland and Hibble & Mellor and other locations and showmen with numbers. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 28p.p some pages empty.

Dates: c1950 - 1959

Photographic Album, 1948 - 1954

 Item
Reference code: 178C57.13691
Scope and Contents

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, steam engines, living wagons, boxing, fairground shows, circus and showpeople, including Silcock, Manning, Holland, Waddington, Ling, Butlin, Farrar, Marshall and Pat Collins at Nottingham Goose Fair, Chorley Fair and Southport and other locations and showmen with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 16p.p.

Dates: 1948 - 1954

Photographic Album, 1908 - 1956

 Item
Reference code: 178C57.13692
Scope and Contents

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs, steam engines, living wagons, fairground shows, boxing, wall of death and showpeople, including Holland, Farrar, Warren, Ling, Hibble & Mellor, Tuby, Wroot, Marshall and other showmen at Lincoln Fair with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 20p.p.

Dates: 1908 - 1956

Photographic Album, 1905 - 1954

 Item
Reference code: 178C57.13693
Scope and Contents

Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, steam engines, living wagons, globe of death, fairground shows, circus and showpeople, including Holland, Pat Collins, Cox, Proctor, Corrigan, Shufflebottom, Shaw, Marshall, Waddington, Ling and Pullen at Nottingham Goose Fair, Hull Fair, Lincoln, Huddersfield and other locations and showmen with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland Scott, 19p.p.

Dates: 1905 - 1954

Photographic Album, 1899 - 1955

 Item
Reference code: 178C57.13695
Scope and Contents Photographic album containing black and white photographs of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs, boxing booths, steam engines and transport, Showpeople, circus and fairground shows including Murphy, Harniest, Deakin, Waddington, Anderton and Rowland, Silcock, Harry Lee, Shaw, Proctor, Reany, M.A. Collins and Tom Norman at Hull Fair, Northampton Fair, Stockport, Daisy Nook, Heaton Park, Oldham and other locations and showmen with notes. Photographs taken and collected by Rowland...
Dates: 1899 - 1955

Photographic Negatives and Notes, 1977 - 1978

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178C125.82-260
Scope and Contents

Strips of negatives and three pages of handwritten notes about the content of the negatives, also some information on original negative sleeves, include printed and unprinted images from fairgrounds in King's Lynn, Norwich, Ealing and Northampton among other locations.

Dates: 1977 - 1978

Photographic Slides of Fairgrounds, c1973 - 1979

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178C85.1-1223
Scope and Contents

Colour slides of fairgrounds, fairground rides, sideshows, people and stalls, taken by Dick Scott-Stewart.

Dates: c1973 - 1979

Photographs, 1894 - 1962

 Series
Reference code: 178C12
Scope and Contents

Black and white copies of photographs and negatives relating to the fairground.

Dates: 1894 - 1962

Photographs, c1900 - 1959

 Series
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs of fairground rides and people associated to the rides around Stirling.

Dates: c1900 - 1959

Photographs, c1900 - 1969

 Series
Reference code: 178C128
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs related to Billy Wood's career as a boxer and as a boxing booth proprietor, showing many of the boxers of the time as well as some boxing booth fronts and other fairground scenes.

Dates: c1900 - 1969