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DERBY DAY 1960s AND 1970s EPSOM DOWNS

Wally Shufflebottom, knife throwing strip tease fairground act. On the Hill - the fair ground hill at the Derby an annual festival of horse racing. The knife throwing strip tease fairground act, was billed as the ‘Texans’, and ‘Greater than Strip Tease’, it was a family affair. Wally’s wife Cissy Rosaire drew in the audience banging a large drum, while Wally juggled with his throwing knives as a young woman held up a sign, ‘Nude Lady as Target’. The Shufflebottom family had been showmen since the 1850’s.  Wally was one of the last showmen to present a live Wild West Show at British fairgrounds; he died in 1998 age 89.<br />
Epsom Downs, Surrey England circa June 1969.
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Wally Shufflebottom 1960s Knife throwing strip tease fairground act.
Wally Shufflebottom, knife throwing strip tease fairground act. On the Hill - the fair ground hill at the Derby an annual festival of horse racing. The knife throwing strip tease fairground act, was billed as the ‘Texans’, and ‘Greater than Strip Tease’, it was a family affair. Wally’s wife Cissy Rosaire drew in the audience banging a large drum, while Wally juggled with his throwing knives as a young woman held up a sign, ‘Nude Lady as Target’. The...
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