| rdfs:comment | - Barbara Mary Smith was born on April 27, 1949, in a tiny little back-kitchen of the Royal Oak pub in Seaton, Cumbria, England. The child of a ‘Wiccan’ woman and a miner, she had a very unique upbringing. Her mother, name unknown, didn’t see much of Barbara as she was passed between neighbours to look after, as they didn’t believe that Babs mother was capable of bringing up a child.
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| abstract | - Barbara Mary Smith was born on April 27, 1949, in a tiny little back-kitchen of the Royal Oak pub in Seaton, Cumbria, England. The child of a ‘Wiccan’ woman and a miner, she had a very unique upbringing. Her mother, name unknown, didn’t see much of Barbara as she was passed between neighbours to look after, as they didn’t believe that Babs mother was capable of bringing up a child. Educated in the dead of night by the local school teacher, she never actually attended an actual school, as she had no money of her own. She would deliver milk, papers and clean for food. Some how she managed to scrap into her teens, when she earned her first pay packet, 1Shilling and 6pence. It was like winning the lottery, for the young girl. So she decided that she would have her first trip to fair, as the carnival was in the next town, Workington. After taste her first ‘candy floss’, giving her a ridiculous sugar rush, she made her way into watch the wrestling. Completely distance from today’s wrestling world, this was the real thing. A ‘professional’ brawler would stand in the tiny, shabby ring, waiting for his next victim. An unsuspecting, usually inebriated, 20stone man would try his luck, in what was a real wrestling match. Of course, the trained and wily wrestler would beat his opponents to a pulp, every time. One this one occasion however, the results was different. A tiny, hyper, skinny 16 year old girl jumped into the ring. The audience began to laugh at the weedy Miss Smith, and the wrestler took her arm and tried to lead her from the ring. Barbara grabbed his muscular arm and flipped him over, flat on his back. The room fell silent. The wrestler rose, pissed off, and attempted again to get to girl to leave the ring. Barbara spat in his face, then swung a right fist at his face. Knocked him cold out. Barbara had won her first wrestling match…and the rest as they say…is history!
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