This collection contains 16 posters, 2 handbills, 2 programmes and a small amount of business records, trade material and correspondence relating to Ben Jackson's banjo variety act.

Photographs and scrapbooks compiled by Bernard Fielding. Each scrapbook contains a mixture of press cuttings including Fairground Mercury and World’s Fair, photographs, postcards, Paul Braithwaite history and patent material. Augmented by handwritten notes and research from other enthusiasts.

Photocopy of Travelling communities, showmen and gypsy wagons, language, autobiographies/biographies of showmen; general history, individual fairs, fairground equipment and art, fairground transport, bioscopes and other shows, freak shows, menageries, fairground organs, general photographic history by Vanessa Toulmin.

Black and white photographs and postcards related to the Biddall faiground showman family, including images of Funny Joe the clown, bioscope shows and fairground rides belonging to the family. Also contains a group photograph portraying three men in uniform.

Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.

Early bioscope or picture shows description on paper with leather-style backing, typescript, 1p.

This collection contains a small amount of archival items and artefacts which belonged to Birt Acres and his son Sidney Birt Acres. The collection also includes books on early cinema, which were used as research material by Alan Acres, while writing ‘Frontiersman to Film-Maker’, and represent the archive created in the process.

Scrapbook copy of the ‘Black Book’ entitled Birt Acres Film Pioneer 1854-1918 containing photocopies of newspaper cuttings and photographs and typed news reports and some material on the Cinema Veterans annual reunion. Press cuttings collected by Birt Acres wife who continued to update it until her death in the 1950's. Subsequent additions were by Birt's daughter-in-law Phyllis.

Birth Certificate for Caroline Williams, born 5 July 1880, daughter of Randall Williams and Mary Ann Williams (formerly Hough). Extracted from the Register Book of Births in the East district of Greenock, Renfrewshire.

Scanned copy of the birth certificate for Caroline Williams, born 22 November 1918, daughter of Richard Monte and Caroline Monte (formerly Williams).

Grand Concert and Exhibition of Animated Photographs. 4pp. 2 Copies.

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 8mm, Cyldon. Universal Pictures. 100 Feet. Black and white, silent. Western starring Ted Wells. Supplied by C. W. Cramp.

Nitrate film by Robert Paul and Birt Acres, filmed on a small wooden stage, showing a brief scene of a boxing bout between a boy and a kangaroo and refereed by possibly the animal trainer or showman, who appears to the left of the pugilists.

Nitrate film by Birt Acres, showing an outdoor boxing match and ringside onlookers. Possibly Acres’ Boxing Match film in August 1896 or Boxing Match/Boxing Contest filmed in 1895.

Bown and white illustration of architectural arch with four dancing women and a seascape on the background with two figures riding a horse on the front cover, inside commercial advertising and programme listing Inez and Pim, Daisy Sloan, Wild Australia, Fun in the Stockade, Sport and Play, Wild Jessie, Florina Cody, Percy Hayden, Draww, Hambo & Frisco, Haidee de Rance, Percy Honri in Bohemia on the Bioscope and Mouth of the Arbour, 4p.p.

Bown and white illustration of architectural arch with four dancing women and a seascape on the background with two figures riding a horse on the front cover, inside commercial advertising and programme listing Furness Willaims, Frederick Sylvester & Co., Monkey Music Hall, Lorna & Toots Punds, Canova's celebrated living porcelains on the bioscope, 4p.p.

8mm. Black and white, silent. Commercial film starring Harold Lloyd.

8mm, 400 feet. Mutual Films. Black and white, silent. Extracts from the commercial film with nude scenes and adverts. Starring Ben Turpin, Edna Purviance and Leo White.

Business Records related to the film industry.

Collection of Jasper Redfern Business Records.