Waxworks

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The Sun Inn, Sadler Street, Durham. Waxwork figures "Just arrived from Fleet Street London".

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Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at Baker Street, Portman Square and the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly.

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Grand Centrifugal Railway, and Dubourg's Wax Works at Great Windmill St, Haymarket. 200ft Long roller coaster, down a steep incline through a loop and then up another incline to safety at speed of over 100mph. Accompanied by Dubourg's Waxworks exhibition. Printed by George Stuart, 15 Archr-Street, Great Windmill Street, Haymarket.

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Grand Centrifugal Railway, and Dubourg's Wax Works at Great Windmill St, Haymarket. 200ft Long roller coaster, down a steep incline through a loop and then up another incline to safety at speed of over 100mph. Accompanied by Dubourg's Waxworks exhibition. Printed by J.W. Peel, 74, New Cut, Lambeth.

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Anthony Giraldelli at 17 Pickett Street, Strand. "Figures in Wax, as large as life and habited in the costume of their respective countries". Printed by T. Wood, 43, Stanhope Street, Clare Market.

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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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Madame Tussaud's Exhibition at Bazaar. "Small specimen of Artificial Ice is removed from the COLOSSEUM and a surface of 3000 sq ft is now exhibiting and opened to the public for skating on". Illustrated.

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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Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at Leicester Square.