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Showwoman

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 464 Collections and/or Records:

Interview with Margaret Bird (nee) Shufflebottom, 15 June 1993

 Item
Reference code: 178E4.1
Scope and Contents

Interview with Margaret Bird, formerly Mrs Margaret Waddington (nee) Shufflebottom. Interview conducted by Brian Steptoe at Bramerton, Norfolk. Audio casette recording and ten pages typed transcript. Copy of original. Digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project led by the British Library 2021.

Dates: 15 June 1993

Interview with Showman John Ling , 1991

 Item
Reference code: 178E1.1
Scope and Contents

John Ling’s memories of a travelling life, recorded by Stephen Smith on cassette tape format.

Dates: 1991

Invoices and Receipts, 1931 - 1956

 Sub-Series
Reference code: 178H26.1
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1931 - 1956

Jack Leeson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0019
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1949 - 1992

Jack Wilkinson Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0168
Scope and Contents Black and white and colour photographs and negatives of fairgrounds, fairground organs, steam engines and other transportation systems with annotations by Jack Wilkinson and other sources, such as William Keating, James Davidson, Philip Bradley and Jack Mellor, as well as notebooks, scrapbooks, journals, books, correspondence, research material, audio tapes of fairground organ music and some 3D items including Jack's recording equipment and a model of a fairground organ. Jack Wilkinson’s...
Dates: c1900 - 1979

Jimmy Williams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0035
Scope and Contents

Black and white copy prints and negatives and three items of ephemera relating to the Williams family.

Dates: c1880 - 1972

Joe Hives Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0023
Scope and Contents

Black and white photographs of fairground rides, transport, sideshows, boxing booths and showmen and women.

Dates: c1890 - 1979

John and Mabel Strudwick Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0153
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1900 - 1999

John Gale Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0033
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c1920 - 1989

John Martin Turner's Circus Research Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0063
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1990 - 2007

Keep It Moving DVD, c2000 - 2006

 Item — Box Michelle Leonard Box 5: Series 178H41; Series 178U12
Reference code: 178U12.4
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.

Dates: c2000 - 2006

King Family and Dyson/Hough Family Biographical Material, 1823 - 1895

 File
Reference code: 178B36.3
Scope and Contents

Research material relating to the King family and the Dyson/Hough family including death certificates.

Dates: 1823 - 1895

Laged No Longer DVD, c2000 - 2006

 Item — Box Michelle Leonard Box 5: Series 178H41; Series 178U12
Reference code: 178U12.2
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.

Dates: c2000 - 2006

Letter, 27 March 1919

 Item
Reference code: 178F33.1
Scope and Contents

Letter from Ida to her aunty Roselia, including a photograph of herself see 178C112.77.

Dates: 27 March 1919

Lewis Family Biographical Material, 1831 - 1901

 File
Reference code: 178B36.4
Scope and Contents

Research material relating to the Lewis family, including birth, marriage and death certificates and census records.

Dates: 1831 - 1901

Life on the Fair DVD, 2000

 Item — Box Michelle Leonard Box 5: Series 178H41; Series 178U12
Reference code: 178U12.5
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.

Dates: 2000

Lily Ohmy and Herbert Sanger's Marriage Certificate, 6 March 1916

 Item
Reference code: 178Q27.4
Scope and Contents

Certificate of the marriage of Lily Ohmy and herbert Sanger.

Dates: 6 March 1916

Lily Ohmy's Birth Certificate, 2 February 1891

 Item
Reference code: 178Q27.2
Scope and Contents

Lily Ohmy's birth certificate dated 13 March 1914.

Dates: 2 February 1891

Liz Gray Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0005
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a small amount of postcards from the 1908 Franco-British exhibition in London and two videos, one about the Priddy fair and another one about the Cole fairground family.

Dates: c1900 - 1983

Lulu Adams Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: NFA0042
Scope and Contents

This collection contains business records, newspaper cuttings, programmes, notebooks and handbills, as well as a collection of black and white photographs, some original artwork and other items relating to Lulu Adam’s personal life and career

Dates: c1880 - 1959