The Sandows for Billy Butlin’s 1973

See the thread ‘Sandow Circus Variety History’ the family show-business history for the past 100 years !
This would be our first season presenting a clowning show for the family audience. So pleased that the first contract was for the Billy Butlin Holiday Centres and the Pontin centres. Teamed with a great couple of hand-balancers and acrobats The Leaways. We played five centres during the weeks – five afternoon shows and five evening cabarets in the theatre. All top liners appeared including Kedd Dodd, Bob Monkhouse, Freddie ‘Parrot Face’ Davies, Roy Castle,

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Cabaret time evening shows

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Our afternoon children’s hour with The Leeways. See also The Sandow Family History thread. Peter Leaway is also clowning and below is their cabaret act presented in the evening theatre stage shows along with our balancing act above. (Bernard Manning thought he was being funny!)

 

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