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Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances in London.

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Handbills for travelling shows, fairs, exhibitions and performances at venues outside London.

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Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Also dramatic sketch ‘Ozening; or Half an Hour in France and others.

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Business records related to the fairground and theatre, posters and photographs of performers and showmen.

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Posters advertising plays at the Holloway Theatre.

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Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on orange background listing the plays. Green Bushes, Fettered at Last, My Sweetheart, Mother's Dying Child, Esmeralda, Cavaliers & Roundheads or the Days of Oliver Cromwell. Printed by William North, 139 High Street.

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Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on pink background listing the plays. Lady Audley's Secret or the Muder in the Lime Tree Walk, Cottage in the Holly or The Widow's Wrong, Life of the Ocean Wave.

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Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on green background listing the plays. The Shaughraun, The Innkeeper of Abberville or The Ostler and the Robber, Dead Hang or The Will Forger, Silver King, Staff of Diamonds, Idiot of the Mountain.

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Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on orange background listing the plays. Aurora Floyd or The Dark Deed in the Wood, Nobody's Child or The Stolen Fortune, The Orphans or The Blind Girl of Paris, The Unknown a River Mystery, Life's Cross Roads or Treachery Exposed, Grean Hills of the Far West, laughable farce. Printed by william North, 139 High Street Twekesbury.

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Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on green background listing the plays. Streets of London, Jenny Foster or The Winter Robin, Leah or The Jewish Maiden's Curse, Called Back of A Blind Man's Story, Mistletoe Bough or The Mystery of the Old Oak Chest, Dumb Girl of Genoa, Robert Macaire or The Two French Jack Sheppards, laughable farce. Printed by William North, 139 High Street, Twekesbury.

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Bredon Road, Tewkesbury. Black type on green background listing the plays. Mary Warner of No.15, The Female Convict, Katheleen Mavourneen or The Dream of St. Patrick's Eve, Ingomar or The Son of the Wilderness, Factory Girl of All That Glitters is not Gold.

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Levett's Field, Lichfield. Blue type on off white background listing the plays. The White Sheik, The Dumb Man of Manchester, Ingomar The Barbarian of A Son of the Wilderness, Klondike, Peace. Printed by Baxters, Printers, Atherstone.

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Fair Field, Bewdley. Blue type on silk listing the plays. Our Lads in Red, Sentenced to Death, day performance for children Litte Hero, Sexton Blake, Man they Could Not Hang, Man Against Man, Mona or The Girl I love, comic concert and funny farce.

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Black and white photograph of horses and handlers in a crowd

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Playbills of Sheffield theatres of the 19th century.

To see digitised versions of the playbills, click on each item in the collection from the right hand side collection hierarchy or go to the External Documents section below.

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Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Also historical pantomime entitled ‘Harlequin Guy Fawkes or the fifth of November’. Printed by S.G. Fairbrother, Exeter Court.

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The Caliph of Bagdat at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. 'To conclude with the admired Pantomime of May-Day or The Nuptials of Columbine'. Printed by Hughes, Smithfield.

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Red, black and yellow stripes on white background and text in black.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of handbills, programmes and small flyers for shows, fairs, expositions and circus performances in the nineteenth century. The circus material in the Bramwell Taylor Collection was sponsored by the Circus Friends Association of Great Britain and consists of material relating to 19th century touring circuses, individual acts and purpose built hippodromes such as Hengler’s Circus and Astley’s Amphitheatre. Additionally this collection also contains a small amount of...

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Grand Coronation scenes at Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Also musical farce ‘No Song, no Supper’.