The Reid Twins and Jack (John) Fossett

My cousin Jack Fossett gave to me this photograph along with the other, it shows him with Tony Hancock in Blackpool during the early 1950s. Sitting on the Promenade railing is Jack’s wife Connie of the famous Reid twins – a very glamorous vivacious acrobatic dancing act of the great days of British Variety theatre. Both Jack and Tony appeared together in The Gang Show.

Jack (Jacko) Fossett in later clowning persona. Prior service during ww2 he was a trapeze artiste with his sisters.

This is Jacks two sisters Margaret and Louise with Margaret’s husband Claude Yelding performing the trapeze act when Jack left for other things.