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Showing posts with label Circus history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Circus history. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 May 2020

Big Kid Circus Cake marks 91 years in the big top for circus star Doreen Enos

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Circus star at 91 Here's the cake with which circus star Doreen Enos celebrated her 91st birthday yesterday (May 20). Enos, kn...
Thursday, 12 March 2020

Bertram Mills performers in the 1950s

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Tuesday, 2 April 2019

20 Circus Facts for World Circus Day, 20 April, 2024

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Roll up, roll up... for World Circus Day! Saturday 20 April 2022  will be the 14th World Circus Day . To celebrate, here are  20 fabulo...
Monday, 2 April 2018

New plaque marks site of the first circus

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2018 is the 250th anniversary of the very first circus , and to mark the occasion, Lambeth Residents Association have installed a blue...
Monday, 16 January 2017

If the circus was a country...

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I found these words by Jamie Clubb incredibly moving when I first read them, and at a time when the circus is hurting over Ringling‘s closu...
Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Clowns, stilts, glamour and circus as it was

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Enjoy a trip to the circus of yesteryear with these pics from the archives of Southampton's Daily Ech o. Clic...
Thursday, 26 June 2014

15 Facts about Philip Astley, the Father of the Circus, for World Circus Day

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Philip Astley's open air amphitheatre Saturday 20 April 2024 is the 14th World Circus Day . The circus was in 1768 founded b...
Friday, 13 December 2013

Circus for sale

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Waiting for the show to go on - the 1900-seat ghost circus of Chisinau waits like Sleeping Beauty to be reawakened. If you'd ...
Friday, 6 December 2013

Sanger's Coronation Circus

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As Diamond Jubilee year draws to a close, here's a glimpse into Sanger's Coronation Circus programme from 1953, as archived in...
Friday, 23 August 2013

DVD Review of The British Circus 1898 - 1972

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Ladies and gentlemen... boys and girls... roll up, roll up for a journey through more than 80 years of circus history as ca...
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Monday, 19 August 2013

National Centre for Circus Arts - A history in pictures

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 Juliette Hardy-Donaldson training when Circus Space was just a dusty space. Read her story in Circus Mania The Generating C...
Saturday, 27 July 2013

Who named the circus?

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Astley's Amphitheatre - a circus by another name The circus as we know it was created in 1768 by cavalryman turned trick horse...
Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Pablo Fanque - Britain's First Black Circus Proprietor

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Today I walked down Ber Street in Norwich , childhood home of Britain’s first black circus proprietor, Pablo Fanque . Born William Darb...