I know this is straying just a little from the subject of Dreamland (although there was a circus on the Dreamland site a couple of years or so ago), but does anyone remember the Raymer's Circus that used to visit Ramsgate during the holiday weeks? Would this have been the small circus (with no animals other than dogs) that traded as "The Big Top Circus" that visited Sevenoaks in the early summer of 1955? If it was the same circus, it would presumably have been working its way down to Ramsgate.
I am particularly interested in a former bus that this circus used as a caravan-cum-office. A photograph on another website of an Aldershot & District Dennis "E" has left me half-convinced that this is what I saw in 1955. It is relatively unlikely, admittedly, that a late-1920s vehicle would have still been in use, even on a circus, as late as 1955; however, as it was such a small circus, it is just possible.
If this was indeed Raymer's Circus, does anyone know where its home base was? If this was however not Raymer's circus, I am told that there was another small travelling circus that visited Kent, owned by the Weight family; could that have been "The Big Top Circus" and, if so, where was that circus based? If I could find out where the circus was based, I could perhaps find out something from the local history section of the nearest reference library.
I should be very grateful for any information on this long-standing mystery.