The Homecoming
Taking place every June since 2014, The Homecoming is an award-winning, one-day circus-inspired extravaganza in Newcastle-under-Lyme Town Centre, Staffordshire which celebrates the life and legacy of local-born legend and ‘father of the modern circus’, Philip Astley. Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1742, the son of a cabinet-maker, Astley, became a war…
