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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Welcome

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 Welcome to Threw the Hat,  a blog about Australian Juggling History. Here you will find links to photos and articles/stories about Australi...

Charles Ancaster- plate spinner and juggler in Australia 1922

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 Charles Ancaster, best known as a plate spinner, came to Australia and New Zealand in 1922, with plates, bottles, hats and clubs. Charles, ...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Rosa Lee, Equestrian Juggler, in Australia and New Zealand 1879/1880

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  Some of the earliest jugglers in Australia were circus jugglers. In the 19 th Century, the circus jugglers, many of them women, juggled p...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Club Juggling in Australia- a short history.

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  This is just a very brief discussion about club juggling in Australia and  an opportunity to look at the evolution of props  and style bet...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

A 20th Century Sydney Juggling Network or who knew who......

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  Today many jugglers learn through watching youtube, instagram or facebook. Some learn through swapping ideas personally and attending jugg...

Nabekichi and Theresa Mayeda- Risley artists- (foot jugglers)

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Nabekichi Mayeda, with his wife Theresa toured Australia with Wirth's Circus for almost 3 years in the late 1930s. During that time, Nab...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Sydney Jugglers in the early years....training grounds and meeting places.

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     In the early years, Sydney jugglers would train at a place called the sandhills which was located near the current site of Moore Park. ...