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Fairground Resources

Showmen 1851 Census & Misc 

Showmen & Other Travellers 1861 

Showmen & Other Travellers 1871 

Showmen & Other Travellers 1901 & 1911 

Showmen at Fairs: Up to 1900
  
Showmen at Fairs: 1901 to 1905    

Showmen at Fairs: 1906 - 1910 

Showmen at Fairs: 1911 to 1915

Newspapers Clippings, etc 

Travelling photographers, ghost shows and other optical exhibitions

Fairground Resources (newspaper sources)
Fairs and Feasts 

Reynolds Original Birmingham Almanack 1851

Map of England and Wales Railways, 1887

The Fairground Society  (Platform Magazine)

Fairground Heritage Trust  

Romany and Traveller Family History Society

Other Resources

England & Wales Railways, 1887  (Bartholomew's Gazetteer)

Access to Archives

Early Cinema Gateway

The London Project 

UK Public Libraries on the Web

London Repositories and their Collections


Travelling Families

The Williams Showmen 

Randall Williams

The Monte Williams Showmen 

Williams and Monte Photographs

Haydon and Urry Ltd 

Proctor's Circus  

Duffy's Circus 

The Twigdon Showmen

The William & Henrietta Wilson Family  

JamesWilson's Family History (incl. Gess & Rosaire families)

Pat Collins Fun Fairs

Burrell's of Thetford

The Barron Family

Codman Gallery 
 
A Showman Supreme









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