At the age of 16, she got a job as a waitress at the Alexandra Palace in North London so that she could see the composer John Philip Sousa.

She overheard two men discussing the loss of a target for an act in which they shot an apple off a girl's head; she volunteered on the spot.

At this height, both the cold and lack of oxygen were threatening to make her lose her grip and fall to her death.

[11] Edith Maud Cook died from injuries sustained following a jump from a balloon at Coventry on 9 July 1910 when her parachute collapsed after a gust of wind blew her on to a factory roof.

In WWII, Dolly (Elizabeth Sedgwick), was an air raid shelter voluntary marshal, in a sandpit near Lewisham, southeast London, England.

"Dolly Shepherd Close" is off Philip Bent Road approximately 0.6 miles due West of the town centre.