Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Photax. 380 feet, The L-KO Company. Black and White, Silent. Extracts from commercial films and TV programmes. Includes; Gale Henty in 'Movie Mad'. Lex Barker in 'Tarzan's Hidden Jungle'. Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan, John ‘Dusty’ King and Max ‘Alibi’ Terhune in 'The Range Busters'. Howard Winstone vs Mitsuri Seki boxing. Charles Chaplin on the farm with Paddy McGuire in 'The Tramp'. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Newspaper reports on boxing and wrestling.

Newspaper reports and articles on boxing.

Photocopies and original newspaper cutting about modern boxing, predominantly about women’s boxing, including articles about Bonnie Canino, Lucia Rijker, Pat Pineda, Deirdre Gogarty, Kathy Collins reports on boxing matches including Helga Risoy vs Daniella Sommers, Jawaid Khaliq vs Lee Murtagh, Gina Guidi vs Dora Webber, Kathleen Collins vs Andrea SeDhong and other generic articles including Women’s Boxing in America.

Photocopies and original newspaper cuttings about Barbara Buttrick.

Black and white photocopies of newspaper articles on boxing from the UK and USA.

Photocopies and original newspaper cuttings about boxing and wrestling including articles on Maurice Tillett, Tommy Martin, Jim Driscoll, Adrian Williams, Len Harvey, Polly Fairclough, Annie Warren recollections of boxers and their trade union by Len Smith, ring recollections by John Murray, Australian women boxers and Johnny Hughes’ obituary.

A newspaper cutting and three issues of Wrestling Review.

An article by Iain Murray on Ron Taylor, one of the last fairground boxing booth impresarios in Britain. Published in The Observer magazine, London pages 23-26. Contains illustrations.

A large collection of films entitled Circusama containing amateur and professional films on the themes of circus, performing animals and zoos, and edited clips from commercial Western and comedy films. The films are in a variety of formats including 8mm, Super8, 9.5mm and 16mm and contain related correspondence and notes. This collection also contains some sound reels mainly of fairground music.

Drawings and designs used for the decoration of fairground rides.

Original works of art including artists' prints, drawings, watercolours and paintings, and designs for circus posters.

This collection contains a large selection of archives from the Orton and Spooner Company. The collection comprises photographs and cabinet card images showing carved work, structural work and classic painted work, 4 boxes of notes, invoices and clippings, 8 drawers of plans and blueprints, 2 folders of ride specifications and order forms, accounts books and a library of source books showing turn of the century art used by the artists in the company.

Designs, drawings, research material, a piece of correspondence and some photographs, mainly related to the creative process and conception of the artwork for Chadwick’s Ghost Train as well as Paul Wright's lifetime archive related to his work as a fairground artist.

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.

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.