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Entertaining Leeds: At the Circus
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Black and white portrait of Mary Brewer. She is wearing a fur coat and her hari is piled up on top of her head. The backdrop is of painted trees. Add to board
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Mary Brewer, circus showwoman and professional weightlifter

Mary Brewer, circus showwoman and professional weightlifter. She was 19 stone and six feet tall. One of her acts involved balancing a piano on her chest and in another she would tie her ankle length plaits to two 56 gallon barrels and swinging these with her hair alone!

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