Items of personal and business correspondence belonging to Billy Wood

Letter from Geoff Harrison to Howard Grey.

Handbills for travelling exhibitions and sideshows at Crystal Palace and South London.

This collection contains rare posters, handbills, photographs, postcards, newspaper cuttings, catalogues and books on travelling exhibitions, speciality acts, magic, circus, performing animals and freak shows.

Drawings for ride fronts, shows and carts, including Chamberlain’s show front carved by W.E. Hilton, Bostock’s show front, chalk rubbing for window design, centre pay box for organs, Ghost trains, Corrigan’s front entrance, Smart and Elson sign, Frank Codona’s Speedway, Egyptian Helter Skelter design and Parry’s Famous Shows front.

Slide transparencies created for the 'Fairground Snaps' book and later projects. The material in this archive is all of Scott-Stewart's work relating to fairs and circuses, particularly from an artistic and social angle. This collection covers all the field work completed by the artist in preparing his book, as well as trips following the publication.

Digital copies of documents, census records and photographs related to the Monte Williams family.

Design for a show front showing the figure of a women on the left corner and columns with faces on the top section. Pencil on paper.

Highly finished design drawings for capitel, mirror frame and show fronts including the Jelly Wobble, Chas Relph, Shamrock, Noah’s ark, The Frivol, Arthur Holland’s Jack & Jill slide and half section of outside decoration for roundabout.

Designs for showfronts, decorative columns and other decorative features, including the swag entrance for a scenic for Charles Thurston, a Hippodrome swag entrance, the front of switchback and scenic rides, Simnett’s shop front, Parry’s show front and the design for a fireplace. Pencil on paper.

Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London.

This collection of printed material produced by the Enquirer Job Printing Company contains American sideshow and freak show posters mainly from the Ripley’s ‘Believe it or Not’ franchise and a poster sampler that was taken around by salesmen from the company.

Exhibition of the Industrious Fleas at Somerset Gallery. Various Flea expositions, a mail coach, a ball room etc. Printed by Collis, 104 Bishopgate Street, Within, London.

Industrious Fleas at 238 Regent Street. Illustrated

Entire Body of a Peruvian Woman at 172 High Holborn. Body of a Peruvian woman "Buried alive over 500 years ago" and "The body being exhumed, it was found to be in a state of the most perfect preservation". Printed by Turner and Co., Wood Street, one door from Cheapside, London.

Black and white and colour photographs of rides, shows and showmen and women at various fairs.

La Sere de la Realite. Etching on paper by C. H. Clement. Outdoor fairground and sideshow scene.

Black and white copies of photographs of fairground lorries, fairground rides and sideshows taken at various fairs in the South of England and the Midlands taken by Rod Spooner.

Black and white and colour photographs, postcards and negatives of fairgrounds, fairground rides, fairground organs, fairground shows, living wagons, showpeople and transport taken by Rowland Scott and other fairground enthusiasts including Jack Mellor, includes two photographic albums.

A small amount of copies of photographs taken by Jack Mellor and printed into postcards, contained in an album. The photographs show images of faiground transport.