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Billy Smart’s Circus and Menagerie, c1960 - 1969

 Item — Box: Smart Family Collection Box 51
Reference code: 178R7.110

Scope and Contents

Waterloo Road coach park, Blackpool 20 July to 8 August. Named acts include: The Six Birds; Billy Smart junior’s elephants; Alma Piaia, aerial act; 3 Peters, aerial act; Fle-Ming’s sealions; Bartschelly, juggling act; The Brooke Bonds TV chimpanzees; The Four Willers; The Lunasz, trapeze act; The Four Jungoves, acrobatic act; Camel caravan. Colour illustration of white face clown’s torso on top left and elephant, camel, giraffe and trapeze act on bottom right over a light and dark blue background and black, white, green, blue, red and yellow type listing acts in the centre. Printed by W. E. Berry Ltd, Bradford.

Dates

  • Creation: c1960 - 1969

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of the National Fairground and Circus Archive, subject to copyright law and condition of the material

Extent

1 Item(s) ; 307mm x 507mm

Language of Materials

English

Arrangement

Catalogued according to type

Cultural context

Topical

Repository Details

Part of the National Fairground and Circus Archive Repository

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