Norman barrett ringmaster hat

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Please contact our Licensing team for more information. Download image Download image JPG. Alternatively search more than 1. Not on display. Unknown maker. I have tagged the article with a "globalize" tag because it currently consists of generalizations that only represent the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus school of ringmasters, making it sound as if that's the only type of ringmaster there is or ever was.

I'm no expert, but I've seen enough circuses to know that all ringmasters don't wear the same outfit, say the same opening lines, or speak in the language of hyperboles described here.

Norman barrett ringmaster hat

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Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. British circus ringmaster. Garofalo, Gino maker. Great Britain made. He was brought up around his family's own show and performed his first animal act aged twelve, with a goat and two dogs. He worked professionally in the circus from the age of seventeen, becoming an accomplished equestrian, juggler and budgerigar trainer as well as the man affectionately known in the circus world as 'lord of the ring'.

He became a ringmaster for the first time in for Roberts Brothers' Circus and was the ringmaster for Bertram Mills' last tenting show inand their last three circuses at Olympia. He is meticulous about his appearance in the ring and regularly has new suits made. He wore this immaculate outfit, with black trousers from a previous suit, to Buckingham Palace in to receive his MBE from Queen Elizabeth ll.

He always wears deliberately mismatched cufflinks in the ring as a good luck charm. He lives in Blackpool and for many years has worked with a circus in Germany during the winter, and as ringmaster of Zippos Circus in the UK during the summer, also presenting his famous budgie act.