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Val Walker
Valentine Augustus Walker (15 Feb 1890 - 17 Mar 1969) (also known as Val A Walker and Val Enson〔http://www.geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php/Valentine_Augustus_Walker MagicPedia〕) was an English magician, escape artist and illusion designer. He was born in Moseley, Birmingham to Joseph Walker, a landscape gardener, and his wife Emma. Val Walker worked as an electrical apparatus maker,〔1911 Census - 64 Grantham Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham〕 later serving in the Royal Navy and was billed as the "Wizard of the Navy".〔(【引用サイトリンク】Val A Walker - The Original Tank Escape )〕 Walker is credited as the designer of the ''Radium Girl'' illusion.〔For online evidence see (【引用サイトリンク】Val A Walker - The Radium Girl ) Another source is to be found in the Tad Ware article in ''Magicol'' magazine (see Further reading)〕 His most famous escape was "The Tank in the Thames" where he was bolted in to a steel tank lowered in to the river Thames from the Sea-Scout Training Ship, Northampton on the 20th August 1920. He escaped in 20 seconds.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Val A Walker - The Tank in the Thames )〕 He was married in 1913 to Ethel Dora Harris, the daughter of Thomas Daniel Harris and his wife Emma Ellson. He retired from the stage in 1924, returning briefly in 1939, under the name of 'Val Enson', with an illusion called "The Aquamarine Girl"〔(【引用サイトリンク】Val A Walker - The Aquamarine Girl )〕 ==References== 〔
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