A new exhibition has been launched at Stamford Town Hall featuring posters over 100 years old.
Joseph Phillips lived at Welland House in Water Street and collected posters of events in Stamford and those printed in and connected with the town. Tours of the Town hall featuring the exhibition today are virtually sold out. Tomorrow there's a free circus themed family fun day with performance, crafts and face painting. Heritage Officer at Stamford Town Council Victoria Newton says the Phillips collection of posters takes us back to the amazing sights that used to come to the town over 100 years ago.
‘There is a huge variety and I think what the collection shows is just the sheer amount of shows and entertainments coming into Stamford. And with that were so many different performers, so many different acts, and like you say, that can be anything from flying acrobats to people jumping through hoops on horses to all of the different menageries coming in. So elephants, tigers, all of these animals that people weren't seeing unless they could travel to a zoo. So yeah just like the colour and vibrancy and the noise must have been absolutely amazing’.
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