Meetings & Research – 2013

In 2013 we did loads of research into our circus heritage in many locations including the T&W Archives, Discovery Museum and Laing Art Gallery stores. We had lots of meetings about how to present our research, including designing the exhibition.

Q La Bonche with Karen Bell

Meeting some of the Teesside crew at DJC

Newcastle Youth Circus crew in the T&W Archives

Ottie interviewing Ewan Crichton

Our inspirational 1st visit to the T&W Archives

Our La Bonche stand at the DJC

Pest & Ottie in front of unicycle stall, DJC

PP & Kernel practice for oral history interviews

PP and her spare parts - Discovery Museum stores

Project meeting

May Bee imagines being held in an elephants mouth, one of the old acts

Squeezebox Rosie investigates Madame's costumes

Time-line sheet for North Tyneside Youth Circus

Visit to Fenwick Collection in the Laing Art Gallery stores 2

Visit to Fenwick Collection in the Laing Art Gallery storesVisit to Fenwick Collection in the Laing Art Gallery stores

Visit to Laing Art Gallery stores - PP meets Billy Purvis

Working out how to use the scanner

Wow! A typewriter

Younger members of the Youth Circus researching animal acts

Exhibition design workshop 3

Chosing photos for the exhibition

$Cirque du Soleil\'s Alegria - running shape$

Core group in the- T&W Archives

$Demo & Zeon La Bonche with one of Fenwick\'s scrapbooks$

Dressed up at the archives in HLF flim day

$Discovery Museum stores one of Fenwick\'s framed posters$

Exhibition design workshop 1

Exhibition design workshop 2

Billingham crew meeting

Exhibition planning

Finding Yuri Gridneff in the scrapbooks

Here's Sharon in real life and in the poster

In the Discovery Museum with the turbinia

Jesters stall at DJC last outing for Jack after 27 years

Listening to old jugglers remembering at the BJC

Looking at medium-sized posters from Fenwick collection

Lulu writing her article at DJC

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