Chipperfield’s CircusĀ is a long-running English family show based on the 300-year-old Chipperfield dynasty…..which started with James Chipperfield and his performing animals at theĀ Thames Frost FairĀ of 1684. Through the 19th century, theĀ circusĀ toured all ofĀ England….with a menagerie of animals….and teams ofĀ acrobatsĀ andĀ clowns. Under the management of Jimmy Chipperfield afterĀ World War II….the show became one of the biggest circuses inĀ Europe….with a tent that could hold 6000 people.Ā Ā Jimmy Chipperfield then diversified intoĀ safari parksĀ andĀ fairgroundsĀ supplies.Ā
Tommy Chipperfield was born and raised in the Chipperfieldās Circus….growing up on the road with a menagerie of animals from chimps to giraffes to elephants….to which Tommy performed in the Circus as a young boy…..and became a big cat trainer, like his dad….but Tommy also trained horses and elephants as seen in this video herewith….in Chipperfiled Circus shows throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s….but when Jimmy Chipperfield died in 1990…. the Chipperfield’s Circus has toured only intermittently…. and only sometimes featuring members of the extended Chipperfield family.