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Jamie Clubb

http://jamieclubb.blogspot.com

The official blog of Jamie Clubb, writer, media presenter and martial arts teacher. The blog focuses on Jamie's written work, his upcoming books, articles and DVDs. This is also the blog for Jamie's upcoming book "The Legend of Salt and Sauce: Britain's Most Famous Elephants".

• Added on: Nov 30th, 2007
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English

• Author: Jamie Clubb
• Listed in: Books History
• Tags: entertainment history circus elephants music hall butlin

Recent Posts

• Circus Rosaire - a much awaited DVD

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 10:52 in United States, DVD, ruth manning-sanders

  I am delighted to announce the release of the two disc DVD edition of the critically acclaimed "Circus Rosaire" documentary. The Rosaire family and their origins in circus are documented in my book "The Legend of Salt and Sauce". During my research I...

• My Kingpole Article

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 06:45 in south africa, wildlife, facebook, circus, eddie campbell, 19th century, animal training, entertainment and sports, circuses and rodeos

  Earlier this year a series of emails and subsequent discussions on Facebook prompted my father and I to write and research on a unique but relatively short-lived wild animal act known as the "Bounce" (aka the bouncing lions or the bouncer wagon). ...

• A Bit of Sauce on the Paul O\'Grady Show

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 15:38 in animal, circus, channel 4, elephant, 1930s, paul o'grady, paul o'grady show

  On Monday 2 November the Paul O’Grady Show presented a feature on circus. My parents have supplied a lot of animals for the show, but for some reason we were overlooked. Anyway, among the guests was none other than Ida Rosaire, the youngest member ...

• Extracts from "We Went to the Zoo Today"

  Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 07:09 in animal, Dance, collecting, recreation, zoo, captain, inventor, lion, british people

  Here is an extract from Alan Ashby's excellent new book on British postcards during the golden age of the zoo. As you can see in the examples below, Alan has done his best to present the postcards in their raw form. I particularly like this touch. Th...

• We Went to the Zoo Today

  Posted on Thursday October 29th, 2009 at 09:48 in Liverpool, UK, collecting, dublin, recreation, edinburgh, oxford, bristol, 20th century, alexandra palace

  I am delighted to announce the release of Alan Ashby's new book on historical zoo postcards "We We Went to the Zoo Today... The Golden Age of Zoo Postcards". This book is a wonderful illustration of the bygone years of the zoo - both good and bad- in...

• Did Granddad Bounce?

  Posted on Thursday September 3rd, 2009 at 05:19 in south africa, wildlife, lion, chipperfield

  The bouncer wagon investigation persists, as does the controversy. At the time when I initially started posting up information here I received feedback from fellow circus people who weren't sure whether or not their relations had worked this rather u...

Comments & Reviews

This blog is currently rated a 5.00 out of a possible 5 based on 1 comment.

Norah Nelson

George and Sam Lockhart were my Great Great Uncles. Jamie has done a magnificent job of collecting information and history of my family. I couldn't put his book down and read it from cover to cover. Thank you again Jamie for keeping their history alive.

Posted: June 7th, 2009 | Report This Comment

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