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Showing posts with label Great British Circus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great British Circus. 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...
Saturday, 30 December 2017

Scotland and Ireland ban wild animals from the big top as the traditional circus slowly disappears

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Thomas Chipperfield presents the last big cats to grace Peter Jolly's Circus, in 2014 “I remember the elephants - just.” Those...
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...
Thursday, 29 January 2015

Alex Lacey in circus photo of the month

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What a great picture of Alex Lacey , the British star of America's Ringling Brothers and Barnum an...
Wednesday, 18 June 2014

The 100-year battle to ban animals in entertainment

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How the Daily Mail reported the return of elephants to the Great British Circus in 2009 The first calls to ban performing animals...
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Thursday, 12 June 2014

Great Yarmouth Hippodrome summer circus - meet the cast

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Going through the archives, I found this great picture of the cast at the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome , Britain's oldest circus buildi...
Friday, 4 April 2014

The future of the circus - can the big top survive?

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My thanks to Mark for buying a copy of Circus Mania and leaving a great review on Amazon (please click here to read half a dozen more re...
Wednesday, 4 September 2013

Circus tigers back in Britain as Thomas Chipperfield joins Peter Jolly's Circus

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Tiger, backstage at Jolly's Circus When Martin Lacey retired from the big cat cage and closed his Great British Circus at th...
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 ...
Sunday, 28 July 2013

10 Facts about Tigers for International Tiger Day!

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No one knows more about tigers than Martin Lacey - Read his story in Circus Mania July 29, 2018 is International Tiger Day . ...
Saturday, 22 June 2013

The Great British Circus - Views of Martin Lacey book review

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The purr-fect leopard-skin accessory - a picture from The Great British Circus - Views of Martin Lacey On the walls are paint...
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