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 ...

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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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. The whole complex finally closed its doors in 1986 with its ballroom demolished ...