For Yasmine Smart, granddaughter of circus supremo Billy and niece to Billy Smart Jr, childhood was like growing up in Disneyland. 'I used to think the chimps were my best friends. They'd come to my ...

Seventy years ago, in a Southampton still basking in the post-war era, the arrival of a travelling circus was a spectacle that rarely raised an eyebrow of disapproval. The rumble of wagons, the roar ...