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Showing posts with label Circus Mondao. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Circus Mondao. Show all posts
Monday, 29 June 2026

Circus Kids - Born to Perform!

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  Circus folk often begin their careers as children, like Carol and Grace Macmanus , seen here with their dad Carlos in a performance at M...
Tuesday, 8 February 2022

Circus Mondao in Kings Lynn

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Friday, 1 May 2015

Edinburgh Fringe Gets Circus Hub But I’d Rather See Some Lions

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Zippos star Norman Barrett OBE and his budgies Circus is in fashion. A certain type of circus, anyway. Two years ago, Britain’s l...
Friday, 18 July 2014

Peter Jolly's Circus on film

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PR man Anthony Beckwith of Peter Jolly's Circus in the Chester Chronicle The story of Britain's circuses fighting each ot...
Wednesday, 4 June 2014

Royal reprieve for circus animals

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The Queen's Speech Fans of wild animals in circuses breathed a sigh of relief as the much-trailed Wild Animals in Circuses Bill fa...
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Monday, 26 May 2014

Circus war in Norfolk

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Are the more than 50 circuses in the UK this year ( click here for the full list ) too many for our small island? Earlier this m...
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Sunday, 25 May 2014

Ban on wild animals in the circus draws closer as Queen announces new Government bill

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Under threat One of just three tigers left in the British circus See him at Peter Jolly's Circus The proposed ban on wild an...
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Friday, 25 April 2014

Circus Mondao - inside the real big top with Britain's oldest circus family

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Circus Mondao in the Weekly News Going through the archives, I found the above full-page article that I wrote for the Weekly News  shor...
Wednesday, 8 January 2014

Circus Mania "captivating and strangely beguiling" says Eastern Daily Press

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Circus Mania author Douglas McPherson interviewed in the Eastern Daily Press Roll up, roll up, for a glimpse behind the greasep...
Thursday, 26 September 2013

Children of the Circus

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"Normally when they're fourteen or fifteen they'll get their own caravan and live outside. My eldest doesn't want me to ki...
Wednesday, 14 August 2013

Circus Girls and Circus Horses

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Sophie Coles Ring-mistress of the Great British Circus where the idea for Circus Mania was formed. My fascination ...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Pinders Circus - Two hundred years on the road with Britain's oldest circus family

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One of the most interesting people I met while writing Circus Mania was retired ringmaster George Pinder . He gave me this picture of hi...
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Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Circus Mondao Pantomime

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Ringmistress Petra Jackson (left) and Bippo the Clown (3rd from left) are joined by Ugly SistersAlan Stratford-Johns and Oliver Dane San...
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