Al Jolson the singing fool, Talkies. Red, blue and yellow type on off white background and yellow border. Printed by Willsons', Printers, Leicester.

Small printed card for Carl Denver Photography, Leeds; 1p.

Nitrate film by Edison [EMP 28.1]. Prod., f./ph: W. K. L. Dickson, William Heise; cast: Carmencita Dancing routine, showing a woman dancing on a stage.

Weston-super-Mare. Colour bi-fold handbill with photographic images and red and white type containing celebrity reviews.

A collection of 5 black and white photographs, four relate to the Silcock Brothers' dodgems and arcades in the 1950s, and one to Whites' stall.

Friar Wood car park, Dagenham. G. Eddy. Black and red type on yellow background.

Document certifying that Fred Lionel Mayer did his first appearance on Poole's New Myriorama with signatures on the bottom section, on Poole's Myriorama letter headed paper with red and white illustrations of people from around the world standing behing a globe held by a cherub and the figure of Britannia pointing a trident towards it. Manuscript.

Certificate of war Service for John Sanger, 4p.p.

Half of an undated form or certificate issued by Asociación Cubana [de Artistas Teatrales,] Cinematográficos, Radiofó[nicos y de Circo] [translation: Cuban Association of Theatrical, Cinematographic, Radiophonic and Circus Artists]

Various sketches glued to a sheet of paper showing pencil, ink, watercolour and goache drawings of a chairoplane ride and showmen and women carrying domestic tasks in their caravans by Margaret Whitaker.

The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.

Westminster Bank cheque for £4.0.0, dated 2 April 1955, payable to E[lla] Norman and signed by Hal Denver.

Three cheque statements (tear-off slips) from Sahara Casinos Co, recording cheques of $765 each on 29 October 1956, 5 November 1956 and 12 November 1956; 3pp.

Showmen children education materials including learning cards, parent's education record, educational booklets, education contactsfor travelling families, parent's views of distance learning, Devon curriculum advice, early years material, professional skills for fairground enterpreneurs vocational GCSEs document, Young LGV driver scheme, a copy of Traveller's Times and a bag for parents to keep their children's educational records.

Records related to the Children's Benevolent Fund fundraising campaign containing the children's challenge booklet, children's competition entries, some correspondence, poems and samples of blank certificates. Also contains a donations collection bucket.

This collection contains five boxes of original photographic material including negatives and slides, a small amount of fairground journals, newspaper cuttings, correspondence, six audio tapes and a small amount of posters and handbills all related to the fairground and steam rally events.

Circus programmes and VHS tapes from Billy Smart’s Circus and Chipperfields’s Circus collected during the 1970s and early 1980s by the TV producer, Christopher John Palmer. There are also a number of promotional photographs of artistes and other ephemera related to the circus.

Booklets containing family trees and biographical information by Hal Thomas (David Harold Thomas), in English and French. Manuscript.

This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses