Britain's most glamorous strongwoman | Daily Mail Online

Billed as 'The Mighty Mannequin', Joan Rhodes, originally from London, found international fame as a strongwoman in the Fifties and Sixties. Her life is told in An Iron Girl In A Velvet Glove.

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