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

Theatre Royal St. Helen’s. Blue and red 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.

VHS PAL. Note on tape reads 'Charlie Carioli, 8.47 George Carl, 20.54 Ruben Madsen, 32.26 Vercoe and Alyn Forte 1998, 52.57 Grock and Max van Embden Berlin 1931'

Award presented to Billy Smart's Circus. Presented at the BBC's Playhouse Studio, London.

Charts of circus and performers appearances. Manuscript.

Chessington Circus programmes containing illustrations, some black and white photographs on the front cover and programme.

Circusama, Yesterdays Circus Today. 9.5mm, Pathetoscope. 300 feet, 12 minutes long. Black and white, silent. Comedy starring Flora Finch. Copied to DVD 4 and DIGI-BETA.

Colour photograph of clown holding a ring with the name of the circus inside it and circus acts in Christmas baubles on a red background with green border with snow flakes

Various items of ephemera.

Various chidren's circus books including; The Chidren's Circus Book, The Circus ABC, Circus Friends counting book, Circus Thrills, Les Jeunes Clowns Fratellini and Tony, Circus Barum Lach Dich Gesund Im, The Chummy Circus Book, The Circus Comes to Town pop-up book, Come to the Circus and the Circus Boy, which is a pop-up book, all containing colour illustrations and text. Language: English, German

Circusama and Yesterdays Circus Today. 16mm, Pathe Picette. 400 feet. Black and white with sound. Includes European circus, possibly Bertram Mills. Copied to DVD 3 and DIGI-BETA.

Programme for circus run 3 June - 5 November 1988. Front cover: various drawings of circus performers. Inside: programme in the centre, introduction about the circus, commercial advertisment, information about other acts at Blackpool. Back cover: Blackpool Tower floor map. 6 pages.

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.

Thought to be a poster for Gerry Cottle's Circus. Event title: (主辦) 世界馬戲大觀 / World Circus Show. Location: 香港海洋公園 / Ocean Park Hong Kong. Circus ran 10 December - 2 March. Colour illustration featuring acts and animal performers.

Thought to be a poster for Gerry Cottle's Circus. Event title: (主辦)卓伯非精英馬戲團 / 卓伯非 Best/Elite Circus. Location: 香港海洋公園 / Ocean Park Hong Kong. Circus ran 19 December 1986 - 1 March 1987. Colour illustration featuring acts and animal performers.

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