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Picture No 12011986
Date 1928
Description Wrestling club for women in Vauxhall
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Members of a wrestling club for women, opened in Vauxhall, London in 1928. Miss Dot Butler, the school's champion wrestler, who issued an open challenge to any man of her own age (22) under ten stone (whether this was taken up is unclear), is shown demonstrating one of her grips in a bout with Miss Bina Theodore, another assistant.
Source Unattributed photograph in The Graphic, 11 February 1928
Credit © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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