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Showing posts with label Gerry Cottle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gerry Cottle. Show all posts
Monday, 1 December 2025

The animal rights protest that made me love the circus

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  This is the picture and newspaper headline that started my journey into the circus . I'd been to the circus before, mainly to review...
Friday, 28 November 2025

Gerry Cottle Remembered by his Circus Friends

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Gerry Cottle with his Wookey Hole circus school students Five years after the untimely passing of circus giant Gerry Cottle on 13 January 2...
Wednesday, 17 April 2024

Alexis Gruss, 1944 - 2024 - Farewell to a Knight of the French Circus

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Alexis Gruss and wife Gipsy in one of his final visits to the ring The death of French showman Alexis Gruss on 6 April highlights the diff...
Friday, 15 December 2023

Who will fill their circus shoes? RIP Phillip Gandey, John Haze, Gerry Cottle and Nell Gifford

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It was a shock this week to hear of the death of Phillip Gandey (pictured above with the cast of Gandeys Circus ) at the tragically young a...
Monday, 24 April 2023

Death of a Strongman, Khalil Oghab, Father of the Iranian Circus

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When Gerry Cottle passed away in 2021, I naturally called his long time associate 'Doktor' John Haze , founder of the Circus of Hor...
Sunday, 16 April 2023

RIP Doktor John Haze of the Circus of Horrors

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The late Doktor John Haze (right) with Gerry Cottle (left) and Circus Mania author Douglas McPherson I received the sad news this morning of...
Tuesday, 13 July 2021

Gerry Cottle's Circus on Magpie in 1975

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A lovely little look behind the scenes of Gerry Cottle's Circus on children's TV show Magpie in the 1970s.  
Friday, 22 January 2021

GERRY COTTLE'S CIRCUS 1976

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A strongman who lifts an elephant, the world's oldest lion trainer, acrobats, clowns, wire walkers and a sign-writing fakir... it's ...
Thursday, 14 January 2021

GERRY COTTLE 1945 - 2021

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Gerry Cottle, Douglas McPherson, Dr Haze It was sad to hear of the passing yesterday, January 13, of the great British circus showman Gerry ...
Thursday, 11 August 2016

Gerry Cottle's Wow Circus, Paighton Green Seafront until August 30

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Like music? Love circus? Roll up, roll up for Gerry Cottle's Wow Circus on the seafront at Paignton Green this month. The l...
Wednesday, 11 May 2016

A Pictorial History of Gerry Cottle's Circus and The Posters of Billy Smart's Circus

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The Wells, Somerset postmark meant the sturdy package could only have come from one man: Britain's most legendary living show...
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Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Happy 70th Birthday Gerry Cottle!

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Here's wishing Britain's best-known circus man, Gerry Cottle a happy 70th birthday . His real birthday's April 7 , but to a...
Saturday, 15 November 2014

Dick Whittington screened live from Bristol Hippodrome to your local cinema

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Ashleigh and Pudsey Panto stars coming to cinema screens December 7 Earlier this month, America's Big Apple Circus made hist...
Thursday, 10 July 2014

Gerry Cottle says opera is the new circus

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The Independent has a new opera critic... in the unlikely form of Gerry Cottle . The irrepressible circus showman had an epiphany after ...
Saturday, 17 May 2014

Circus Stamps

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Step right up to get a new set of US postage stamps celebrating the art of the great American circus poster . A set of eight stamps ea...
Tuesday, 29 April 2014

Marilyn Monroe in the circus ring

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What a beautiful creature! Oh, and that's Marilyn Monroe riding it... Following my recent post about Elton John and Rod Stewart ...
Friday, 10 January 2014

How to organise a book launch and create a media circus

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The story of a launch party in Writers' Forum . In this article that first appeared in Writer’s Forum , CIRCUS MANIA author D...