The leaseholder of an iconic seaside venue has confirmed it is working on plans "for a viable future" for it. The Kursaal in Southend-on-Sea opened in 1901 and has hosted acts such as Queen and AC/DC ...

As the proprietress of her own Wall of Death – and the star of the show – Yvonne Stagg was a 1960s success story. With the Margate attraction reopening this week, Lois Pryce charts the rise ...

Exactly 50-years-ago Southend was rocked by the news that one of its forgotten action heroes had died. It was July 1971 and Tornado Smith – once the biggest star of the Kursaal’s Wall of Death ...

The Kursaal’s Wall of Death which opened in 1929 was the very first attraction of its kind to open in Britain. It featured motorcycles and cars zooming around a 20ft vertical wooden wall, shaped ...

A pub becomes a shrine to a man who popularised the motorcycle "Wall of Death" in Britain - often using his pet lion in the act.

The Kursaal’s Wall of Death motorcycle rides were the first such spectacle in Britain, the Victorian society said. The whole complex finally closed its doors in 1986 with its ballroom demolished ...

The Victorian Society said the Kursaal's Wall of Death motorcycle rides were the first such spectacle in Britain.