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Blue business card with golden, embossed type, for Mr W. Wright, who worked for Marshall's Modern Amusements Ltd, Amusement Caterers and members of the Showmen's Guild. This card is thought to have belonged to William Wright, son-in-law of Walter Marshall and Renee Marshall (nee Scott), 1p.

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Business and legal records relating to the management of Marshall's Modern Amusements Ltd.

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Sketche for ice-cream cart for Jaconelli showing front and side elevations. Pencil on paper.

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Drawings for ride fronts, shows and carts, including Chamberlain’s show front carved by W.E. Hilton, Bostock’s show front, chalk rubbing for window design, centre pay box for organs, Ghost trains, Corrigan’s front entrance, Smart and Elson sign, Frank Codona’s Speedway, Egyptian Helter Skelter design and Parry’s Famous Shows front.

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Desing for Risi's Ices cart, front and side views with annotations and dimensions. Pencil on paper.

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Design for Risis Ices stall frontage. Pencil on paper.

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Sketches for ice-cream carts for Jaconelli and Risi (see 178H8.22 for Risi's specifications). Pencil on paper.

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Photographic print of a man serving drinks to two seated women. The woman on the right is possibly Martha Craston (nee Cashmore).

Scope and Contents This collection comprises family papers and photographs, relating to the large and extended circus and fairground families of Walter Marshall and Renee Marshall (nee Scott), together with correspondence and further photographs, concerning Walter Marshall’s service with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Accompanied by some business records and newspaper cuttings, concerning the family business, W. H. Marshall and Sons Amusements (later known as Marshall's Modern Amusements...

Scope and Contents Large collection of black and white photographs and postcards, and colour photographs, some annotated on the reverse, of the Marshall, Scott, Kayes, Baker and Testo families, as well as various other circus personalities and performers between 1880s and 1970s. Including studio portrait photographs, photographs taken for publicity purposes and candid photographs, of individual performers and groups of performers in costume onstage and backstage, with the animals they trained, at the family...

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Drawings and designs used for the decoration of fairground rides.

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Photographs of the Marshall, Scott, Kayes Baker and Testo families, as well as various other circus personalities and performers between 1880s and 1970s. Accompanied by a photograph album, a negative album and photographs, concerning Walter Marshall's service with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

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Side and front elevation of icecream trucks with carving decorations.

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Two certificates issued on the purchase of shares from Keighley Division Conservative Club Buildings Ltd, by William Marshall and Goldthorpe Marshall Amusement Caterers Ltd, 1p.

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Legal agreement to trade as sole individuals in their own rights and the allocation of the use of fixed assets made between William Henry Marshall, Walter Marshall and Henry Marshall of Marshall's Modern Amusements Ltd, 2pp.