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Showing posts with label Philip Astley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philip Astley. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 December 2024

Short Story: One Day In The Future

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What would Philip Astley , the Father of the Circus, make of today’s animal-free big top? Find out in this timeslip story by Douglas McPher...
Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Philip Astley, the Father of the Circus in This England

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The autumn issue of This England features a page by yours truly on how the Father of the Circus , Philip Astley , is being rediscovered in ...
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...
Tuesday, 27 February 2024

Philip Astley Centre opens in Newcastle-under-Lyme to celebrate the Father of the Circus.

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More than 250 years ago, Philip Astley invented the circus as we know it today. Two and a half centuries later, on 9 March , a Philip Astl...
Friday, 22 September 2023

Cirque du Soleil to set up home in London

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Is London about to get a permanent circus building ? Canadian circus giant Cirque du Soleil is in the process of making the capital’s Savil...
Tuesday, 2 April 2019

15 Facts about Philip Astley, the man Who Invented 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 ...

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...
Sunday, 10 June 2018

When Rick Astley met Philip Astley (sort of)

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I always wondered if 80s singer Rick Astley was a descendant of Philip Astley , the equestrian who founded the modern circus 250 years ...
Thursday, 17 May 2018

Father of the Circus celebrated in Philip Astley's home town of Newcastle under Lyme

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Celebrations marking 250 years of the circus have continued in Newcastle under Lyme , the birthplace of Philip Astley , the Father...
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...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Norwich Castle lit up for First Day of Circus

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(Credit: Norwich Evening News) Here's Norwich Castle lit up with Sir Peter Blake's Circus250 logo to celebrate the birth of ...
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...
Sunday, 30 March 2014

15 Circus Facts for World Circus Day, 20 April, 2019

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Roll up, roll up! Who could have resisted this poster for Rosaire's Big Circus in 1946? Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls...
Tuesday, 7 January 2014

15 Circus Facts - A Bluffer's Guide for World Circus Day, 16 April 2022

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Circus Mania author Douglas McPherson (sorry, just clowning!) Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Saturday 16 April, 2022  is t...
Tuesday, 3 December 2013

Zippos Nicky de Neumann turns rescue horses into circus horses

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Nicky de Neumann Riding high with Zippos When she was growing up, Nicky de Neumann was told she’d have to choose between the horse...
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...