Business records related to the Smart family and Smart circus.

Documents relating to Ilkeston Charter Fair including parking arrangements, fair lettings and minutes of meetings.

Collection of Jasper Redfern Business Records.

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.

This collection contains research material, business records, grant applications, project planning documents, contracts, programmes, posters, handbills, newpaper cuttings and other records relating to Marisa Carnesky's career as a showwoman. The records comprise the production and travelling of Marisa's shows including Carnesky's Ghost train, SmutFest, Jewess Tattoess, Dragon Ladies, Chamber of Horrors, Dystopia, Magic War, The Incredible Bleeding Woman and Tarot Drome.

Contracts of employment and business receipts related to Lulu Adams, Martha Cashmore, Albert Adams and the Crastonians.

Business records related to theatre performances including six diaries of performances and four hand written play scripts entitled Buffalo Bill, Hindle Wakes, A Beautiful Criminal and King's Romance, a typed list of plays, a questionnaire for a G.V.5 permission request, a photocopy of Holloway's theatre floor plan and a letter, and a business card for Mona Holloway versitile actress and authoress. Also a floor plan of Hull Fair and a ground reference list of showmen.

Contracts and agreements for engagements on stage and on television, kept by Ralph Norman (aka Hal Denver) amd his wife, Olga Norman, who perfomred together as The Sensational Denvers, primarily in North America, but also in Mainland Europe, South America and the United Kingdom, as well as documentation relating to membership to professional associations, and personal family documentation.

Taking books, receipts, correspondence, licences and Showmen's Guild membership records.

Business and legal records relating to the management of Marshall's Modern Amusements Ltd.

Business information and correspondence regarding individual repair and construction jobs, invoices and break down of costs with different clients including Farrar, Hackett & Company Ltd, H. Thurston, Woolls Bros., Henry Jones & Sons, Pat Collins, Broncho Bill’s Western Circus, G. Marshall, John Danter & Sons, Royal Continental Circus.

Correspondence including letters between Roberto Germanis and Ronald Smart and between John Smith and David Smart. Includes financial records.

Includes technical drawings, an architecture diploma thesis project by Brian T O'Brien.

Includes leaflets from the Association of Circus Proprietors of Great Britain, and R.S.P.C.A; House of Lords official reports regarding Performing Animals Bill.

Includes hand written and typescript notes on the artists running order, single page flyers/programmes for the show, dates and times of shows, and correspondence.

Correspondence about the Customs and Excise Act 1952, two copies of the Customs and Excise Act 1952.

Various press releases for the Billy Smart's Circus.

Includes press releases; information about the project; two folders that are drafts for a Southsea Marineland programme.

Includes typed correspondence regarding the circus tent, Christmas Eve TV schedule, sales distribution and tax rates for Christmas shows.

Includes typescript correspondence regarding working visas/permits and other immigration matters, photocopies of contracts, typescript correspondence with the Billy F. Arata Agency regarding the 1998 season.