Circus Collection (page 17)

Ludgate Circus, London. St Pauls Cathedral can be seen in the background. Date: C. 1910

Street scene in Scottish Highlands
Street scene in the Scottish Highlands, with a little girl sitting on a stone step. A stone carving of a weight scale carries the inscription: God Bless The Just. Date: circa 1920s

The Queen of the Jaguars and her Trained Troupe
Madame Morelli pictured with her jaguars, part of Bostocks famous menagerie. Date: 1904

Mademoiselle Mona de Gray (real name: Florence Cockle) (1893-1987) - British Contortionist and acrobat. Date: circa 1910s

Birthday card, two today, depicting a monkey riding on an elephant. Date: 20th century

Piccadilly Circus 1896
The Piccadilly Restaurant on the left, beyond the statue of Eros. Date: 1896

St Georges Circus
View of the ROYAL CIRCUS near the Obelisk in St Georges Fields, Surry. Date: circa 1770

Oxford Street
Horse-drawn traffic at Oxford Circus. Date: 1895

Cambridge Circus
The Palace Theatre and the circus. Date: circa 1900

London by Bus
Piccadilly Circus, central London, viewed from the top deck of a Routemaster bus. Date: 1960s

French Circus Trick
A sensational turn at a French circus : A woman is placed inside the globe, which is then pierced with swords and rolled down a spiral shoot! Date: 1930s

Circus Cleaner
A poor cleaning lady, down on her hands and knees, scrubbing the floor at Olympia Circus, London. Date: 1930s

Pinders French Circus
The Big Top marquee of Pinders French circus. Date: 1930s

Nael Salsbury
NAEL SALSBURY circus impresario Date: CIRCA 1890

Beach Acrobats
Three men and a girl, beach acrobats. Date: early 1930s

Repeating Pattern - circus clowns perform balancing act
Repeating Pattern - three circus clowns performing a balancing act on a blue background. *PLEASE NOTE that the magnifying glass is solely to show the detail of the repeating pattern

Miniature French Horse Omnibus - Royaume de Lilliput
Miniature French Horse Omnibus, pulled by two small ponies - Royaume de Lilliput, Paris, France (a Circus-Related Midget Dwarf Troupe). Date: 1910s

Peter Robinsons Department, Oxford Circus, London
Peter Robinsons Department Store, Oxford Circus, London - looking eastward down Oxford Street. Date: circa 1909

Joseph Chamberlain as a Lion Tamer, taming his various opponents and enemies, named as the Radicals, the opposition Press and the Boer African Lion (bearing a suspicious likeness to Paul Kruger)

Waiting for the Circus - Five African American children waiting at the side of the road for the arrival of the performers. Date: 1902

Paris Worlds Fair of 1900 - Circus entertainers
Circus entertainers and performers and their Caravan. Illustration by Caputo on a postcard published by Courmont Freres as part of a book of discount coupons for attractions at the Paris Worlds Fair

Oxford Circus, London Date: circa 1920

Piccadilly Circus and a London Flower Seller Date: circa 1950

Busy Traffic on Regent Street, London Date: circa 1910

Scotts Restaurant in London - famed for its oysters and lobster, formerly with sawdust on the floor and a zinc bar. On the corner of Piccadilly and Shaftesbury Avenue. Date: circa early 1920s

Emily Paulo and her Performing Ponies
Entertainment - Emily Paulo and her Performing Ponies at Paulos Circus Date: circa 1920

One Encore too many - Boy performer collapses backstage
One Encore too many - A young boy performer collapses backstage and is tended to by his female co-star, a kindly clown and another older member of the ensemble

Piccadilly Circus, London - looking south east down Lower Regent Street toward the Duke of York Column and the distant tower of the Houses of Parliament. Date: circa 1909

Piccadilly Circus - WW2
Piccadilly Circus, London - WW2 - Pedestrians military and civil, including an American GI and his gal. Date: circa 1942

Chalon-sur-Soane - Carnival Day
Chalon-sur-Soane, a commune in the Saone-et-Loire department in the region of Burgundy in eastern France. The Gladiators Circus is the theme of the first float, complete with columned theatre

New York, USA - Hippodrome- hosting (twice daily) Andresonville and a Yankee Circus on Mars featuring a cast of thousands! Date: circa 1910s

The Knife Throwing Denvers - UK US Wild West Act
The " Knife Throwing Denvers" - UK US Wild West Act - famous for being the first " circus style" act to appear on the newly formed BBC Television Service in 1936. Date: circa 1940

The Circus Clown anounces the End of the Book. Date: 1895

Two off-work clowns attract attention in a Garrison Town
In a Garrison Town. First Loafer to second Loafer (as out friends from the circus pass by) - " Officers!". This is likely to derive from the two clowns often getting entangled with the law

Two Actors outside a theatre comment on a Flea Circus
Two Actors outside a theatre (on observing the playbills displayed) pass comment on a Performing Flea Show. First Actor (resting) - " H m - a scratch company." Date: 1892

The Showman - An Extinct Type. - character portrait by Phil May of a barker or the proprietor of a sideshow. A barker is a person who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events

Theatrical Jester
Portrait of a Theatrical Jester. Date: 1895

Flower Girls at Piccadilly Circus, London
Flower Girls on the steps of the Eros Statue at Piccadilly Circus, London Date: 1903

A Policeman at Piccadilly Circus, London, close to Eros
A Policeman at Piccadilly Circus, London, close to the Statue of Eros, stopping the traffic (consisting of a row of London taxis). Date: circa 1909

Comic Postcard - Romance at Piccadilly Circus " I meant t ge on the tube at Piccadilly last night, but I Got Off there instead!

St. Kitts, West Indies - The Circus, Basseterre Date: circa 1905

Male and Female British Servicemen - Piccadilly Circus
Male and Female British Servicemen on leave - Piccadilly Circus, London - WWII. Date: circa 1943

British Servicemen at Piccadilly Circus, London - WWII
British Servicemen (Army and Navy) at Piccadilly Circus, London during World War Two Date: circa 1943

France - Dancing the Cake-Walk Date: circa 1909

A circus horse called Fantome became the first horse to cross the English Channel by air when it was carried from Paris to London by a LiorÚáÑt Olivier LÚÅá21 of Air Union

A View of the Royal Circus from St Georges
Plate showing A View of the Royal Circus from St Georges Fields at the time of the Ascension of Arnolds Balloon. 1785

Circus aeruginosus, western marsh harrier
Plate 24 from John Goulds The Birds of Great Britain, Vol. 1 (1873). Hand coloured lithograph

Circus melanoleucos, pied harrier
Plate 1, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, from the Loten Collection of coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects & Plants, (1754-57)

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