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Billy Smart Sr (1894-1966) was a showman , fairground proprietor and circus proprietor

He was the owner of Billy Smart's Fun Fair and bought a circus in 1946. The circus toured alongside Smart's funfair.

According to the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (please refer to references), "Billy Smart was such a colourful character that on his death his lifelong friend Sir Billy Butlin described him as the greatest showman of our time and probably the last of the great showmen."

Family

References

David Jamieson, Billy Smart's Circus, A Pictorial History. Buntingford, Aardvark Publishing, 2004. (ISBN 1-872904-26-2)

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