1902-03 Season - Dates & Venues

The following is proposed as the basis for a full and comprehensive list of the English & Welsh engagements on the 1902-03 season of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West & Congress of Rough Riders of the World. The towns / cities and dates are courtesy of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Most of the venues have now been identified and it is hoped that those few which have not yet been established will follow in the fullness of time. All contributions towards filling in the blanks - and corrections - will be gratefully received!

¹ Advertised in the Dudley Herald, 13^th June 1903, as ‘Grounds the Parade’ and elaborated by the accompanying article as ‘in the field at the Parade, Eve Hill’. The County Express, 20^th June 1903, refers to ‘the show ground at Evehill, near Castle View.’

² The formulation advertised by the Folkestone Herald on 12^th and 19^th August 1903 was:

‘Grounds : TOP OF SANDGATE HILL
[Near the Leas]’

However, the formulation preferred by the Folkestone Express on 8^th, 12^th, 15^th, 19^th and 22^th August was ‘GROUNDS – THE LEAS.’

The Folkestone Herald, 26^th August 1903, described the venue as ‘a large field at the top of Sandgate Hill’.

³ No advertisement has yet been traced for Margate but the Islington Daily Gazette, 27^th August 1903, vaguely but helpfully located the venue ‘up Cliftonville way.’

⁴ Described by the Evening Star and Daily Herald, 7^th September 1903, as ‘land in the occupation of Mr. D. W. Taylor, at the Grange Farm, Eastgate, Bury St. Edmund’s’

⁵ Described by the Eastern Daily Press, 11^th September 1903, as ‘the well-known show ground at West Lynn’

⁶ No advertisement has yet been traced for Ely but this information is supplied by an article in the Cambridge Daily News, 16^th September 1903.

⁷ Originally announced as the Race Course

⁸ Described by the Burton Chronicle, 8^th October 1903, as ‘the fields lying between Dallow Bridge and Wyggeston Street’

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