The Strong Man
NextBackMy next visit was to see Samson Brown, the strong man, who performed amazing feats of strength. To publicize the show he pulled one of Regent Motorway’s coaches down Grove Street with his teeth and allowed Brown’s Coal Merchants lorry loaded with half a ton of coal to ride over his chest on Market Place. He bent a strip of iron between his teeth into an ornamental shape and passed it around the audience and the last one to examine it was allowed to keep it as a souvenir, on the night we were there this was kept by Ralph Manning who was the licensee of the Plumbers Arms in Walford Street and so it was put on permanent display in the bar.
