Fair Field, Brougham Road, Worthing. Red type on off white background

Jews Meadow, Horsham. Red type on off white background and red illustrations showing mainly wild animals and also some perfomers along the bottom edge including a clown and equestrian acts, illustration signed and dated 1929

Witney, The Recreation Ground, 22 March. Background white and red, type white, blue and red. Printed by Parkes and Mainwarings, Ltd, Printers, Coleshill Street, Birmingham

Glasgow, Stockwell Street, New Metropole Theatre, from 26 November. Group of forest bred lions, Bengal tiger, polar bear, musical comedy elephants, trapeze acts, hind-leg horses, waltzing horses, troupe of liberty horses, lady rider, high school horse, comedy riding act, Charivari, comedy black bears, boxing kangaroo. Black and white photographs of each act, background white, type black

Lacy’s Forest Bred Lions, clowns, trapeze artistes, Black Theatre puppets, plus performing bears, llamas, ponies, dogs. Red and blue type on yellow background.

The Charles Taylor collection is a fine example of Taylor’s of Wombwell printers’ posters, which highlight changes in printing techniques, fashion and taste within the popular entertainment industry. Included are examples of posters for pantomimes, fairs and circuses. The collection also contains handbills and other advertising material.

Charts of circus and performers appearances. Manuscript.

Shaun Glenville Irish Comedian, Florrie Forde chorus singer, Archie Glen Ben Said the funjuror, The Hearnes, Pauline Crothers and her violin, The London six-Harmony, burlesque, Dancing. Blue and red type on white background. Printed by John Waddington ltd., 108 Albion Road, Stoke Newington.

Colin Wark presents, Troise and the Mandoliers, Gerard Snoeck the squeeze-box merchant, Handby Celeine Trio in skatorial moments, Mayfair Sisters two grass widows in something different, Bert Hopping mountain of mirth, Betty Bruce feminine but funny, Ivor John from Covent Garden & Carl Rosa Opera Co., Revill and Syd versatility personified. Blue and red type on cream background. Printed by Taplen & Paddock Printers, Cuppin Street, Chester.

Colour illustrations of the heads of a lion, a tiger and a clown, a motocyclist jumping over a pit full of lions, a clown in a car flying through the air with the stearing wheel off, two elephants and two acrobats, background beige, type red and black

Colour illustrations of many circus acts including a woman with a snake wrapped around her, a man looking in a crocodile's jaws, two orange tigers, four acrobats and a clown, background white with red and multicoloured sections

Peter Jay present Chinese Circus, at Blackpool Tower. Colour illustrations of a clown, a man with a puppet Chinese dragon, a tiger and a woman riding an elephant, photograph of wrester Big Daddy, background red and orange, type multicoloured.

Tom Duffy's Circus presented in collaboration with the Chinese National Circus. Colour illustration of a red and yellow parasol in the centre and Chinese dragon, clown's face, tiger, horse and female acrobat around it on a purple background with a yellow and red border

Tom Duffy's Circus presented in collaboration with the Chinese National Circus. Colour illustration of a red and yellow parasol in the centre and Chinese dragon, clown's face, tiger, horse and female acrobat around it on a purple background with a yellow and red border

Tom Duffy's Circus presents in collaboration with the Chinese National Circus. Colour illustration of white horse on a round yellow background with a female Chinese gymnast on the left and black and white type on a pink and yellow background, also a Chinese dragon on bottom right and a tiger and a clown's face on bottom left