Paula explained to Tim and Jay Our parents had a variety act back in the 1940s and 50s with my grandparents and they were quite well known. They did some Royal Variety Shows and performed at the palladium a number of times. Steve added The act actually began as a rope spinning act with my grandparents then my father came along with a unicycle and entered the act.
Then he married my mother and mum joined the act and this was her bike. Jay clarified So this belongs to mum then really what are mum and dads names? Peter and Dorothy Steve confirmed as Jay continued What did your mum actually do on the unicycle just ride it around? Steve explained Well she had to learn to ride a unicycle to spin a rope also and do all the other things whilst on the unicycle. When I was a little bit I used to be by the stage so often my mother used to take me up to the wardrobe mistress in the London Palladium.
She would just wet my hands and dip my hands into sequins and then my mother would clear off and do her 10 minutes on stage whilst I was going Wow. Dad died in 2017 but mum is still around she is 93. These were all chromed he added as he began to point out what the original used to look like. Paula added With a lovely brown narrow saddle because obviously when you were riding it you have got to be able to move about .It has been upsetting me to know that it has got in such a bad way I think it is really important that the future generations of our family know what happened.
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