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Female BodyBuilding & Fitness & Figure - Members Area => UK and Ireland Female Bodybuilding, Physique, Figure, Bikini, Wellness and Fitness => Topic started by: Boselectah on May 31, 2012, 09:54:14 pm
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Sorry no photo but I'm wracking my brains trying to remember a fairly high profile lady in England from 80s. NOT Carolyn Cheshire but a girl from Batley in Yorkshire who popped up a bit in various media - was even used as a model in Argos catalogue for a while on exercise equipment pages. She had distictive hair too; blonde with a big brown streak in it. If anyone can remember her name we may be able to google some pics - she was well fit and I thought better muscled than Carolyn.
Cheers guys.
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Was it Bernie Price by any chance?
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or Kimberly Jones?
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Donna Hartley
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Sorry guys...... no to all the above. Gordon Bennett; it's doing my head in... fact I bizarrely remember she came from Batley but can't remember her name is particularly galling!!
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It wasn't Lohani Rochi. How about Colleen Yates?
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Could it be Julie Dent?
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Nah - none of them.
If you ever feel a bit weird for appreciating muscular women let me tell you this.....
I spent a while over weekend trawling google and found some anoraks have scanned and uploaded images of old historic Argos catalogues to the internet?! Honestly, why would you even hoard 20/30 year-old Argos catalogues - blimey, when these people started hoarding there was no internet so there was no way at that point they would have conceived of uploading scans in the future.
Anyway, after going goggle-eyed looking at images of the old catalogues I still couldn't find her. I'll periodically trawl google in the hope of stumbling across her. I reckon she was knocking about 1985- 1987ish.
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Thanks for getting me hooked into finding the answer. :thanks:
How about Linda Middleton? I'm not sure she's from Yorkshire but she maybe from close by.
If not her was it Loretta Lomax? What about Bev Hahn? Perhaps Claire Wheeler? How about Della Shahabi/Wagnon?
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Nope - still none of those I'm afraid. Don't sweat it chaps - I thought someone might just know or remember her. It was her hair that you'd remember: longish blonde bob with centre parting but a long brunette streak each side just forward of her ears. Deffo very early period of English FBBs too.
Anyway, not to worry.... it's probably one of those things I'll have to stop thinking about and then it'll randomly pop in my head.
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Angela Graham
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By jingo, I think he's got it. The description does sound like Angela Graham.
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Speaking of British fbbs/strong ladies, I remember reading about a British powerlifter in the early/mid 1990s. She was pretty, brunette i think, not especially big, but was way ahead on the rankings, and even ahead of a lot of men from the same weight class. Does it ring any bells? Another one was a pretty blonde, over 40, who appeared in the News of the world magazine. From Oxford possibly. Around 1998-2000ish. She apparently held powerlifting world records. Again anyone?
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Angela Graham
Get in! Well done fellah - have some karma!
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I'm surprised I didn't think of her. To jog some memories, here's a pic of her from the 80's and one recent one.
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I also found this thread.
http://saradas.org/index.php?topic=74287.msg566120.html#msg566120
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Speaking of British fbbs/strong ladies, I remember reading about a British powerlifter in the early/mid 1990s. She was pretty, brunette i think, not especially big, but was way ahead on the rankings, and even ahead of a lot of men from the same weight class. Does it ring any bells? Another one was a pretty blonde, over 40, who appeared in the News of the world magazine. From Oxford possibly. Around 1998-2000ish. She apparently held powerlifting world records. Again anyone?
I'm thinking of two women who appeared on UK Gladiators in the 90's. The brunette was Helen *Something*, a short, squat powerlifter who was European champion. She famously, when competing in "Tilt" (a tug of war type game) flexed to psyche out the Gladiator (it worked, her bicep was massive) before winning the match with one hand.
The blonde could be Rowan Duxbury. She was from the south coast but was very well spoken which perhaps made you think she was from Oxford? Duxbury was also on Gladiators. She was a big, muscular old unit who probably would have trounced the Gladiators but got injured.
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Speaking of British fbbs/strong ladies, I remember reading about a British powerlifter in the early/mid 1990s. She was pretty, brunette i think, not especially big, but was way ahead on the rankings, and even ahead of a lot of men from the same weight class. Does it ring any bells? Another one was a pretty blonde, over 40, who appeared in the News of the world magazine. From Oxford possibly. Around 1998-2000ish. She apparently held powerlifting world records. Again anyone?
I'm thinking of two women who appeared on UK Gladiators in the 90's. The brunette was Helen *Something*, a short, squat powerlifter who was European champion. She famously, when competing in "Tilt" (a tug of war type game) flexed to psyche out the Gladiator (it worked, her bicep was massive) before winning the match with one hand. The blonde could be Rowan Duxbury. She was from the south coast but was very well spoken which perhaps made you think she was from Oxford? Duxbury was also on Gladiators. She was a big, muscular old unit who probably would have trounced the Gladiators but got injured.
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No idea if they are the same women i'm thinking of but karma for your efforts. The brunette, natural if i remember rightly, was way ahead of all the others. Looking at the Gladiators competitor list for 1993 there was one called Helen Williams; however, I found nothing on google relating to her. Regarding the blonde, it may be Rowan, not sure. All i remember was that she was relatively slim, over 40, pretty, and her hair wasn't long. I may be mistaken about Oxford - may have been Cambridge, but certainly from the south. The memory plays tricks after a dozen years; but I remember reading about her in the News of the World mag, on holiday in Cornwall maybe in aug 2000, and how she held world records. And i remember reading in a girlfriend's woman's mag about a fbb from the North East who had taken up bodybuilding with her boyfriend (who was big himself)and became stronger than him! She was pretty tall, very big, with quite prominent teeth and long hair...this was also around 2000.
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Rowan Duxbury lived in my childhood hometown, Sidmouth, in Devon. I knew her casually, and used to bump into her in Somerfield ( I think it was called Richway at the time, before becoming Somerfield, the store has had a few names since it opened). I joked with her once that she was always looking into the chicken counter whenever I saw her!
She entered the South West shows, including the Sidmouth Classic competition. When I knew her, she was married to a lorry driver, but I believe that all went tits up. She moved away from Sidmouth (Always known locally as the Sidmouth Bodybuilder) for a while, but I believe she is back in the South West again now. She was on Gladiators, but was ill, and did not perform as well as expected.
Here are some recent pics of her on the hills around Sidmouth. Beautiful countryside which I miss, and she makes it look even lovelier.
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Some about Rowan and Gladiators, and the lovely muscles I actually saw myself in Sidmouth.
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Further, I have found some archive material of Rowan ( Gibbons ) Duxbury, from when she was an FBB. I actually have some of the newspaper clips here, but lucky for me, these are on the web already.
I was a facebook friend of Rowan's but she has taken herself off facebook, sadly.
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Karma for your interesting contribution. Seems she was more of a bodybuilder than powerlifter. However, if the N of the W mag contained regional stories, the fact that I was in the South West at the time strongly suggests it was her. Perhaps Oxford was one of the places where she competed....
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I think that Joey Bull could be the name you are looking for.
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...and even if it wasn't her. I always used to look forward to the new catalogue to see the pics of Joey!
She has a nice website now with lots of pics, so I probably wouldn't bother with the catalogue now, even if she did appear in it again!
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no not joey bull. i think she was strictly a fitness competitor and i doubt ever lifted anything heavy..though i would love to be proved wrong
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2591062/Former-Olympic-star-58-died-suddenly-heart-failure-sunbathing-topless-garden.html
i am so sorry