Business records containing minutes of meetings, financial records, documents related to legislation and urban planning, Showmen's Guild diaries, year books, records on the campaigns run by the Showmen on the defence of Mitcham, Norwich, Manchester, Nottingham and Cambridge fairs.

Business records encompassing Michelle's role as the Education Officer for the Showmen's Guild, the education of children showmen and the Children's Benevolent Fund competition.

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.

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.

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.

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

Newspaper cutting from the Cleveland News entitled ‘Olga the Ax-dodger.’

Sheets of black and white contact prints showing behind the scenes images of fairground people and equipment, some are images of the prints in this collection and some are additional, some have images cut out.

Black and white copies of photographs and negatives relating to the families and their business on the fairground including images of rides and transport, and photocopy of reference album.

Items of personal correspondence and correspondence related to the Sanger and Ohmy families.

Various items of correspondence related to the Dobson family and World War One.

Postcards and correpondence mainly between Mrs Dobson and Mr J. Dobson, some are World War One related.

Correspondence sent to Renee Marshall (nee Scott), primarily from her husband, Walter Marshall whilst he was serving with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

Letters and telegrams primarily relating to the performing lives of Ralph Norman (aka Hal Denver) and his wife, Olga Norman, known as The Sensational Denvers, in the 1950s, as well as Ralph Normans's family life and later career endeavours in both the United Kingdom and the United States of America.

Postcard correspondence related to the Ohmy Circus family, including a postcard from Lillie Reeve to Mr Claude Smith while he was a prisoner of war in Germany.