On This Day;

….13th Nov 1876, Henglers Circus Cirque opened on West Derby Road. I knew it as The Hippodrome or the Hippy because it was at the top of my street in Everton.

I read that Charlie Chaplin was a child performer at Henglers and during the day attended SFX school in Salisbury St (a school my Dad went to). Chaplin described his time there as the happiest in his childhood;

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