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This week in 1949

Wall of Death by Bert Hardy

Maureen Swift practising on the ‘Wall of Death’ while herarticle entitled ‘Who Is This Quiet Retiring Girl’. The Wall of Death – in Southend – was the first attraction of its kind to open in Britain, opening in 1929 at the Kursaal Amusement Park. Motorcycles and cars would ride around a 20ft vertical wooden wall in the shape of a barrel cylinder. Both men and women stunt riders would perform there, and despite the name, it’s not thought that anybody actually died at the wall.

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