It’s important to consider this timeline and what he achieved. It was a family business, famed excellent horsemen and tight rope walkers, Sheffield City archives has the most amount of his circus playbills than any other archive.
Pablo Fanque, Playbill
Pablo Fanque, Playbill
Pablo Fanque, Playbill
Pablo Fanque, PlaybillLittle is known about Pablo’s early life but he would go on to become one of the most famous circus proprietors of the 19th century and one of the few successful black businessmen in Victorian England. He struck out on his own in the early 1840s. Starting his career as a leaper, he would go on to become one of the foremost equestrians of the age.
“Pablo Fanque’s Circus Royal” toured across the country but found greatest success in the north of England. In the 30 years he operated his own circus. His circus came to Sheffield regularly between 1847 and 1856, performing at locations in and around Castlegate, including the Alexandra Theatre on Exchange Street.
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