Pinders Circus in United Kingdom

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Pinders Circus
The circus in the 1890s.
Local name	Cirque Pinder
Type	circus
Founded	1854
Closed down	1928
Country	United Kingdom
Related persons
Owner	-: Edwin Pinder Jr. -: Arthur Pinder Sr. 1854-: George Pinder 1854-: William Pinder Sr.


Assistant Directors	: Arthur Pinder Jr. : Barbara Sanger : Louise Lockhart

Zoological department
Animal trainers
-: Lily Pinder -: Hanna Pinder

Elephant department
Record history
History of updates	2024-12-01: picture 2025-04-18:

Latest document update	2025-04-18 17:35:29

Description

Pinders Circus, United Kingdom , was founded in 1854. Pinders Circus closed down in 1928.

Comments / picturesThe Pinder circus was founded in 1854 in England by the brothers William Pinder and George Pinder.

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The elephant bull Bosco.

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Cirque Pinder 15th of November, 1908. Those are the elephants bought from the Mac Caddon Circus bankrupsy in September 1905. Male elephant is Helphy females Bell, Johne and Topsy. //Christian Hamel

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An elephant (Puch?) from Cirque Pinder plowing a field, 1914.

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The Pinder family operated the circus until 1928, when it sold it to Charles Spiessert, see Circus Pinder

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William Pinder Sr. with Asian elephant Lily, 1938.

References for records about Pinders Circus

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Pinders Circus, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1433. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

http://circusmania.blogspot.com/2013/05/two-hundred-years-in-circus.html
Christian Hamel

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