Showwoman
Found in 395 Collections and/or Records:
Hull Fair Project Collection
Research material used for the Hull Fair Project exhibition and DVD including audio visual material, digitised images, oral history and transcripts.
I Want to Help, c2023
In Fair Health? A Pilot Study of the Health and Wellbeing of Travelling Showpeople, October 2023
Inspection Certificates, 1977 - 1978
Interview with June Dick, 6 August 2018
Interview with June Dick, descendant of Lord George Sanger about the Sanger family history. Interview conducted by Professor Vanessa Toulmin and NFCA staff. Rushes. Filmed by NFCA staff. 8 x MP4 files , 42 mins.
Interview with Kate Smart, 1981 - 1982, 25 February 1982, 21 January 1981
Interview with Mrs Kate Smart, Mr Buller Hatwell and other showmen/women conducted by Rod Spooner at Barnt Green and Cassington on cassette tape format. First four people interviewed on 25 February 1982 at George Smart’s house, Barnt Green, Birmingham. Buller Hatwell interviewed at Cassington, nr. Oxford on 21 January 1981.
Interview with Margaret Bird (nee) Shufflebottom, 15 June 1993
Interview with Margaret Bird, formerly Mrs Margaret Waddington (nee) Shufflebottom. Interview conducted by Brian Steptoe at Bramerton, Norfolk. Audio casette recording and ten pages typed transcript. Copy of original. Digitised as part of the Unlocking Our Sound Heritage project led by the British Library 2021.
Interview with Showman John Ling , 1991
John Ling’s memories of a travelling life, recorded by Stephen Smith on cassette tape format.
Invoices and Receipts, 1931 - 1956
Invoices and receipts related to the Dobson family business in the fairground, including correspondence with the Showmen's Guild, the purchase of a juvenile ride, application for ground at Birmingham Onion Fair and market and fair tolls.
Jack Leeson Collection
Photographs and negatives, both collected and taken by him as well as notebooks with detailed lists of every fair visited. Jack Leeson used an elaborate system of cross-referencing which match the photographs and Jack's account of the fair. Also included are letters, scrapbooks and a collection of records of fairground music and some fairground models.
Jack Wilkinson Collection
Jimmy Williams Collection
Black and white copy prints and negatives and three items of ephemera relating to the Williams family.
Joe Hives Collection
Black and white photographs of fairground rides, transport, sideshows, boxing booths and showmen and women.
John and Mabel Strudwick Collection
This collection contains black and white and colour photographs and postcards, some originals and some copies, including one World War I soldier photograph, and some colour photographs, as well as a newspaper clipping, a baptism certificate and a recent letter from BBC Northamptonshire.
John F. C. Heather Collection
Black and white photographs related to Joseph Charles Heather, the Sanger Circus and the Bostock Jungle.
John Gale Collection
Photographs taken by John Gale, including a collection of negatives from his favourite fairs: Newcastle Town Moor, Durham Miners' Gala, Houghton Feast, Northallerton and his home town of Wolsingham. There are also a number of newspaper cuttings, circus and rally programmes.
John Martin Turner's Circus Research Collection
This collection contains John Turner’s research on circus people indexes, which lists circus performers from the Victorian age onwards. It contains notebooks, index cards, photocopies and pictures gathered from a number of repositories and libraries during John Turner’s life and used for articles published in a variety of journals and magazines, and for the numerous books that he published during his lifetime. The collection also contains some posters and programmes
Keep It Moving DVD, c2000 - 2006
Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.
King Family and Dyson/Hough Family Biographical Material, 1823 - 1895
Research material relating to the King family and the Dyson/Hough family including death certificates.
Laged No Longer DVD, c2000 - 2006
Material related to fairground children's education and showmen census research, also contains work done for the government about showmen and the Showmen Guild of Great Britain.