Photographs and printed images of various acts and artistes collected by the Smart Family for research for performing in the Smart's Circus 1994 season.

Photographs and printed images of various acts and circuses collected by the Smart Family for research for performing in Smart's Circus and for programme design. Also includes printed reproductions of paintings of circus performers for research.

Photographs, leaflets and printed images of various acts and circuses collected by the Smart Family for research for performing in Smart's Circus.

Photographs, leaflets and printed images of various acts, circuses and famous visitors collected by the Smart Family for research for performing in Smart's Circus and for programme design.

Includes work permits, contracts, photocopies of passports and correspondence between Smart's Circus and Barbara Dawidowicz of United Entertainment Enterprises regarding artistes Rudniks and Trufanovi Troupe among others.

Includes royalty reports and correspondence relating to sales and licences of Billy Smart's Circus video recordings to BBC Enterprises and Time-Life Films.

Includes work permits, contracts, invoices, cost break downs, transportation documentation between Smart's Circus and Billy F. Arata Agency The Circus Specialist for various artists including Miss Nives, Arata's Rollers and Faltyny.

Includes film strips printed in photographic paper and illustrations by Derek Burrell Davis of the BBC.

Includes correspondence with performers and agents, invitations for the Smart family to other circuses and postcards.

Includes a promotional leaflet, advertisement designs, lists of show dates and times, poster printing prices, poster designs, shoot schedule, invitations to performances and press articles.

Includes tour schedules, poster designs, programme designs, leaflet designs, tickets, leaflets, correspondence with councils about tour performances, correspondence with printers and Lord Delfont's foreword introducing the 1993 tour.

Includes list of performance dates, proofs for leaflets and posters, bank account information, seating prices, driving routes and driver information.

Includes Thames T.V. television work, plans, scripts for Billy Smart’s Easter, Christmas Circuses and Big Top Variety Show, some inscribed Christopher Palmer, press cuttings, production photographs, slides, promotional material, costume sketches, original artwork, viewing ratings.

Includes correspondence with the Hassani Troupe and Southwark Council, budget, performance list and ticket prices.

Includes documents about Kay Smart's writing course; Kay Smart's experience of auctioning off circus items; a small notebook; notes on various circus acts; correspondence with Aardvark Publishing regarding a book about Billy Smart and his circus; poetry by Kay Smart.

Includes performance schedules, correspondence about marketing, leaflet designs, a questionnaire and correspondence about a shareholders agreement for letting Battersea Park.

Includes correspondence, invoices, cheques, insurance documents, press articles, leaflets, posters, applications for circus tour sites to various sites in the UK, employment application for Philip Kenyon and an agreement with Yorkshire Productions Ltd regarding the 2000 tour of Billy Smart's Circus in Blackheath, London. Also includes leaflets, a performance running order and press articles about the Netherlands National Circus which was produced for the UK by Kay Smart.

Includes correspondence with the RAC and applications for them to create road signs for Billy Smart's Circus tours in 1997 and 1998 at various sites in the UK.

Includes correspondence between Billy Wilson-Smart (elephant trainer and nephew of Ronnie Smart), Ronnie Smart and their solicitors about the use of the 'Smart' name.

Includes correspondence between Billy Wilson Smart, the Smart Family and their solicitors over the use of the Smart name in Billy Wilson Smart's act in Gandey's Circus accompanied by photographs, posters and press articles. Also includes correspondence regarding a Smart elephant truck used by Billy Wilson Smart.