Catalogue description BELLE VUE 29th INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS

p.1: Directorate: H.F.B. Iles, Chairman;

Sir Leslie Joseph (Managing Director)

Charles Forte (Vice-Chairman .....

Secretary, T.G. Nolan. General Manager J.W. Betts.

Ringmaster, George Lockhart, Musical Director, Fred Bonelli.

p. 2 : My first circus visit, Johnnie Hoskins, below a photograph The Lehr Family.

p.3 : ... The Ringmaster, George Lockhart, photograph.

p.4 : Captain Bailey Fossett ... animal trainer, below advt for Edmond's Eccles Cakes 1/3 for 4.

p.5 : Sir Robert Fossett's ... jungle beasts, 2 photographs.

p.6 : ... Jose Strassburger-Mullens, 1 photograph. Below, advt Book at Lewis's for ... Belle Vue attractions.

p.7 : as above, a trainer of horses & dogs.

p. 8 : Fred Bonelli, Belle Vue's ... resident director - 28th yr as leader of Grand Circus Orchestra ... has his ... dance bands ... play at ... weekly functions & dances at Belle Vue, also 2 photographs of 2 beeloos.

p.9 : The two original beeloos ... working together for many places on the Continent ... kst visit to Manchester, Jose 17 & Jean 19.

p.10 : Jos Mullens Pot Pourii ... finest horses in the world .... William Mullens putting the horses through their paces.

p.11 : ... team of precision trained horses, ... from Holland ... below advt. International and Travel Exhibition Belle Vue, Manchester. Open daily (except Sunday) 11 a.m. to 9.30 p.m.

Jan. 14th Admission 2/6 Feb 8th

.... non-stop entertainment every day free in the Exhibition Theatre.

p.12 : The Five Herosinis ... springboard artists from Czechoslovakia 3 brothers, Otaker, Jan & Bohumil, and sisters, Anna and Jaroslava, won 2 gold medals at the European Circus Festival.

1 photograph.

p.13 : Photograph, Elephant Trainer - Rudi Jurkschat .....

p.14 : Irene Renters.

p.16/p.17 20th Dec Souvenir Programme 8th Feb.

p.16 : Part One

Items 1-10

p.17 : Part Two

Items 11-20

God save the Queen.

The programme is subject to alteration at the discretion of the Management. framed.

p.18 : Billy Smart's Elephants ... below, advt. John Riley & Sons, Family & Contracting Butchers, Stretford, Manchester.

p.19 : Lehr Junior/Alfred Burton - received a Circus Oscar in 1957. 2 photographs.

p.20 : as p. 19 ....

p.21 : Guttenberg's Reiterie ... foremost trick riders in Europe .... performed with ... success in the U.S.A. Europe and South America.

p.22 : Van Norman & Co. also an advt for Belle Vue ... Zoo & Aquarium ...

p.23 : Clown Van Norman ....

p.24 : The Albona Trio ... Walter and Udo. Beveleys ... renowned for 80 yrs.

List of branches, Beveley Ltd. Palmer, Stockport ... since 1872

p.25 : The Trio Albona ... 1926 Walter Gorbitz 'discovered' in holiday camp.

p.26 : The Lehr Family, photograph.

p.28 : Two Kismets, below advt British Fair of Industry and Commerce, Belle Vue - Manchester. 4th to 19th July, 1958.

p.29 : Versatile Clown Hampe, Ross Daam. Joss Mullens Unrideable Mule.

p.30 : Mony Moren ... success in Madison Square Gardens, New York and San Francisco ... 2 photographs.

p.31 : 1 photograph of clowns Micky Chapman, Noe-Noe, also advt Clark's Bros. Publicity 50 Thomas Street, Manchester 4

Post Writers to Belle Vue (Manchester) Ltd.,

p.32 : ... The British Fair of Industry and Commerce, Belle Vue, Manchester. Premier event of 1958 4th - 19th July.

BROCHURE: Exhibition Manager, Belle Vue, Manchester 12.

Apprediation ... all circus animals are stabled at Belle Vue. Their quarters are heated ... Under the King's hall there are airy stables for the horses, special quarters for wild animals in the ... cage act, ... rooms for the dogs ... elephants have ... place ... to themselves ... near the entrance to the ring ....

Italicised note: Compiled and edited by John S. Hoskins.

Published by Belle Vue (Manchester) Ltd.

Printed by Electric (Modern) Printing Co. Ltd.

Manchester 8.

Coloured covers, Belle Vue Manchester Circus Souvenir 1/-

Programme, yellow with blue/red print.

Verso : rear cover, advertisements.