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Fair Grounds

Overview

  • Address: Likely the fair grounds along the banks of the Don River, just north of Victoria Station Road.. For a current map, Click Here.

  • Performance Space Description: Information about this venue has not yet been compiled; however, some sense of the performance space may be gleaned by following the links at right. In particular:

  • See the 'Bibliographic Sources' link for a provisional list of venue-relevant resources (both primary and secondary). Wherever possible (i.e. when the pertinent text is relatively short and/or easily condensed) this material has been transcribed, and appears beneath the appropriate bibliographic citation.

  • See the 'Events at venue' link for a listing of blackface/minstrelsy-related events that took place in this performance space (with attached bibliographic references).

    Beth Marquis

    • Troupes at Fair Ground

    Film Affiliated people Film Type # of event(s)
    Bosjesmans Exhibition Definite Bosjesmans
    Kendrick Kendrick, Exhibition Definite Kendrick
    Tyler, J.S. Tyler, J.S. Lecture Definite Tyler, J.S.
    Young Congo Young Congo, Exhibition Definite Young Congo

    Events at Fair Ground

    Event Date Venue Location Film
    Circus - Sheffield, Yorkshire: West Riding Kendrick
    Circus - Sheffield, Yorkshire: West Riding Young Congo
    Exhibition - Sheffield, Yorkshire: West Riding Bosjesmans
    Exhibition - Sheffield, Yorkshire: West Riding Tyler, J.S.

    Bibliographic Sources

    View a list of abbreviations.

    • East Ardsley, Wakefield: EP Publishing Limited, 1978


      “The Feasts, or Fairs, were the highlight of the year for the working-class people and in Sheffield two large feast grounds existed. One was situated on the side of the Don, taking up the whole piece of land to the front of where the Royal Victoria Hotel stands today and the other was at the bottom of the Moor, near the cluster of cottages known as Little Sheffield.” (p. 228)