Lion taming

Circus Life and Circus Celebrities by Thomas Frost.

Lions and Lion Tamers.

Manchester Jack.

Van Amburgh.

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For further information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org Read by Robert H. Cherney Circus Life and Circus Celebrities by Thomas Frost Chapter 6 Conversion of the Lambeth Baths into a Circus Garlic and the Wild Beasts Batty's Company at the Surrey White Conduit Gardens Reopening of Astley's Batty's Circus on its Travels Batty and the Sussex Justices Equestrianism at the Lyceum Lions and Lion Tamers at Astley's Franconi's Circus at Cremor Gardens An Elephant on the Tightrope The Art of Balancing Franconi's Company at Drury Lane Van Amburgh at Astley's The Black Tiger Pablo Fanc Rivalry of Wallet and Barry Wallet's Circus Junction with Franconi's While waiting for the reconstruction of Astley's, Batty obtained possession of the Lambeth Baths, a spacious building in the immediate vicinity of the amphitheatre, and converted them without loss of time into a circus, which he was enabled to open at the close of November 1841.

Though the process of conversion had been hastily carried out, the accommodation and decorations left little to be desired, and as Dewurst, the clown, observed on opening night, it, like a punch bowl, looked all the better for being full.