Billy Smart's Circus 1954 at Bingley Hall (pages 16-17)
These pages from the programme feature heartwarming stories of the circus coming to "your" town.
Billy Smart's Circus 1954 at Bingley Hall (pages 18-19)
These pages from the programme feature Captain Fleming's Sea-Lions. The opposite page is an advert, after the "Greatest Show on Earth" it is suggested you follow it with the greatest treat of the day ...
Billy Smart's Circus 1954 at Bingley Hall (pages 20-21)
On these pages from the circus programme we have a piece on "the guv'nor" Billy Smart himself. The right hand page focuses on the Polar Bears and Racing Camels.
Billy Smart's Circus 1954 at Bingley Hall (pages 22-23)
Behind the scenes at the circus showing the 250 kilowatt power station which literally kept the circus going. The lower picture shows Billy Smart Junior and Mrs Davidd Smart with celebrity visitors Gabrielle ...
Billy Smart's Circus 1954 at Bingley Hall (pages 2-3)
These pages include an introduction by the Smart's. Founder Billy Smart along with presumably his sons David, Ronald and Billy Junior. Billy endorses the suitability of Bingley Hall for his circus.
Billy Smart's Circus 1954 at Bingley Hall (pages 4-5)
The circus was visited by several distinguished visitors on the Scottish tour of the previous year, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester with their two boys and, perhaps most notably, Father Christmas.
Billy Smart's Circus 1954 at Bingley Hall (pages 6-7)
A page showcasing the zebras and the Billy Smart's zoo which accompanied the circus. On the facing pafe there is a profile of the Five Fellars who were a low-wire trapeze act.
Billy Smart's Circus 1954 at Bingley Hall (pages 8-9)
On these pages from the Christmas programme we have an advert for Esso Extra and a page on the comic crazy antics of the Clowns.
Bingley Hall
Bingley Hall used to stand just off Broad Street in the Symphony Hall/ Repertory Theatre area. It was regularly used for public events of all kinds, most famously perhaps for the annual cattle shows and ...
Birchfield Branch Library
This building on Birchfield Road was once known as the Perry Barr Institute. It became Birchfield Library, a satellite of Handsworth Library in September 1897, when the two front rooms began to be used, ...
Birchfield Picture House
The Birchfield, on the corner of Bragg Road and Birchfield Road, was opened in about 1912 and closed down on 3rd March 1962. For some years it was used as a greengrocer's, and until the 1990's it was ...
Birchfield Road
Numbers 293 to 311 Birchfield Road, eastern side, the section between The Broadway on the right and Bragg Road on the left of the picture. Lloyds Bank is at 301 and A.G. Scrivener Ltd., butchers at number ...
Birchfield Road
Numbers 349 to 35 Birchfield Road, eastern side, the section running northwards from Aston Lane. The white building to the left of the picture is The New Crown and Cushion Public House.
Birchfield Road
A photograph of Birchfield Road taken facing towards Perry Barr. On the right it shows the section between Bragg Road in the distance and the nearer Thornbury Road. The building on the far side of Bragg ...
Birchfield Road flats by the underpass
Birchfield Road School, Perry Barr
Birchfield Road School, Perry Barr, photographed in April 1959
Birchfield Road, Handsworth
Postcard view of Birchfield Road, Handsworth
Birchfield Road, Handsworth
Birchfield Road underpass, Handsworth, under construction on 19th July 1961