Ginnett remained in England, and set up a show with performing ponies and canaries at Ludgate Circus in London.
[2] By 1858, Ginnett's touring operation was billed as "a mammoth circus & matchless troupe of equestrians [with a] stud of 70 blood horses and fairy ponies."
The show included re-enactments of Dick Turpin's ride to York, and of the storming of Delhi, together with clowns.
In 1876, the Ginnetts' first permanent circus building was opened at Park Crescent Place in Brighton; it later became the Gaiety Theatre before being demolished in about 1930.
John Frederick Ginnett is buried in the family vault in Woodvale Cemetery and Crematorium in Brighton.