Notebooks containing circus facts and notes on performers from international circuses, some booklets are blank by Hal Thomas (David Harold Thomas). Manuscript.

Photograph of a family group seated next to tents. Two men are playing musical instruments. The woman furthest right is Ellen 'Topsy' Coleman. The man next to her is thought to be her second husband Harry Moxon. The woman, second from left, is Florence Austin aerial performer.

Booklets containing family trees and biographical information by Hal Thomas (David Harold Thomas), in English and French. Manuscript.

Blackpool Tower. Staged by Dick Hurran, Rogana, Charlie Cairoli clown, Bronley's rocket, Knie's horses and ponies, Chipperfield's lions. Colour illustration of Charlie Cairoli's face in the centre surrounded by different circus acts and animals including two aerial performers in green outfits hanging from a green rocket, a globe balancing female performer in a pink outfit with a large white and pink feather head piece, horses, Cossacks and lions over a yellow background

Scrapbook of programmes and black and white photographs, relating to Circus Fantastic, 20p.p.

Presented by Robert Brothers, Monday 16th July. Opera House, Manchester, starting. African lions, zebras and llamas, Aranbian stallions, The Circusettes, Scottish dog revue, Sultan dancing horse, Nugget and Rebecca, baboons, Beauty and her Dancing Lovelies, baby elephants. Blue and red type on white background. Printed by Rainbow Art Services Ltd, London, N.1

Bournemouth International Centre. Colour photograph of different circus acts on a black background on the front cover and the illustration of the earth with ribbon reading Circus Atlas, inside introduction and colour photographs of acts and performers with text and programme in the centre, 6p.p.

VHS. Note on tape reads 'taken from 16mm film'. Rastellis, Mr Braun & Dog, Swedish festival with Walter Galetti and Daughter, Gino Donati and Family, The Chickys, George Carl and Cirque Medrano Paris November 1953 with 'Spider' Austin Troupe, Pipo and Dario, Nino and Charlie with Billy Beck and Loriot as 'Plants', John Vrie and Co. Film.

Circusama and Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathescope. Silent. Includes Stedman of Leeds, Bertram Mills and various circus acts of the day. Also includes King George VI and Queen Elizabeth’s coronation footage.

Copy of film on DVD showing performers at Harringay and with Bertram Mills, Polack Bros. Cole Bros Circus and Rosaires among other circuses. Also showing Digger Pugh on the trampoline and roller skates, other acts include female aerial acts, acrobatics, clowning, wild animal acts, equestrian acts, fakir acts, clowning and circus parades. Also scenes of performers behind the scenes and outdoor performances. Black and white and colour with narration and background music.

Copy of film on DVD showing trampoline acts, female aerial acts, trapeze, acrobatics, clowning, wild animal acts, equestrian acts, ball ballancing and circus parades at various locations as well as circus scenes outside the tent and building the tent and with various circuses including Clyde Beatty, Ringling and Circo Americano and circus buildings in Germany and Viena. Colour, silent.

Copy of films on DVD showing trampolin scene, female tumbling and acrobatics, female aerial acts, a religious ceremony in a circus tent, a circus parade, equestrian act, foot juggling, wild animal acts, Chinese flag jumping act, dancing, slack rope act, trapeze, clowning, skating, military band, cycling act, rolling ball act, various animal acts, chair balancing act and knife throwing. Colour and black and white, silent.

Copy of film on DVD showing circus scenes outside the tent, circus parade, trampoline acts, female aerial acts, acrobatics, clowning, wild animal acts, equestrian acts, dancing, tumbling, slack rope act, animal performance, city views and tents and buildings for Circus Krone, Pinders and Billy Smart Circus. Colour, silent.

Circusama and Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathescope. 1300 feet, 53 minutes long. Black and white, silent.

This collection consists of a large library of books and journals, as well as archival material including posters, programmes, photographs, films, handbills, research material, scrapbooks, original artwork and many other items of ephemera relating to British, Irish and European circuses

Invitations, menus and programmes, some autographed, from CFA rallies and reunions, also newspaper article about the 21st reunion and the Circus Friends Association book of rules and objects, bulletins, lists of collections, catalogues of collections, correspondence, a pin badge and other items

The Circus Friends Association of Great Britain Circus Award presented to Billy Smart’s Circus by Tony Hopkins for Best All Human Circus. Red type and illustration of a woman standing on a man’s leg stood up on two galloping horses on yellow background.

Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings about the CFA mainly by Charles Lawrence but also by other authors and some loose cuttings, 65p.p, only 43p.p used.